Do you know your 10 assertive rights?

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Anthony Golden
Do you know your 10 assertive rights?

Before starting with assertive rights, let's see what the assertiveness. Assertiveness is the capacity we have to defend what we want, feel and need at all times according to our needs, with respect for others and expressing ourselves appropriately.

Assertiveness allows us to "be" ourselves and relate to others honestly and appropriately. It is important not to lose sight of respect, be able to assert ourselves and defend our rights while always respecting the rights and needs of others.

Lack of assertiveness can cause people to behave in two ways: aggressively or inhibited. People with an inhibited style are not capable of defending their rights and interests, of refusing requests that they do not want to carry out and of expressing their emotions, which can lead them to feel that they are being taken advantage of, and not to take into account their emotions, experiencing great discomfort.

People with an aggressive style, on the other hand, do not respect the rights of others, or their feelings or opinions, but they also sometimes react by offending, provoking or attacking. Unlike the inhibited, they do get what they want but at the cost of anger, rage and violence towards others, which leads people to turn away from them.

The “good news” is that assertiveness is a skill, and as such it can be properly trained and developed on a day-to-day basis..

To develop it, we must know a series of assertive rights that we all have and can put into practice:

1. You have the right to have your own opinions and beliefs. That sometimes they do not coincide with those of the majority or what is established does not mean that you are wrong.

2. You have the right to say NO. Putting your needs before those of others does not make you selfish or inconsiderate, we cannot always please everyone.

3. You have the right to make mistakes and be wrong, it's part of learning, don't be ashamed.

4. You have the right to ask for help or emotional support if you need it and to express your pain.

5. You have the right to change your mind and say "I don't know". People evolve throughout our lives, changing your mind or not knowing something does not make you less valid.

6. You have the right not to need the approval of others. Each person is valid for the fact of being a person, not for what others think of them.

7. You have the right not to have to justify your behavior and to make your own decisions, without having to make excuses for it.

8. You have the right to ask for what you want and to accept NO for an answer.

9. You have the right to be treated with dignity and respect, if not, you can claim it.

10. You have the right to be your own judge.

You decide if you put these rights into practice.

And remember that, just as your rights are, they are also those of others.


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