Steering Yourself to Victory

The end of another year is just about to arrive, and you are most likely caught up with the excitement of the holidays, shopping and spending time with those you love. It's around now that you begin to set intentions and goals for the upcoming year.

In business you are establishing budgets, identifying sales goals, and trying to locate potential expenditures on which to cut back. In your personal life you're looking at your level of happiness with your work, where you are in life, what you might like to change about where you live, or (if you're like the majority of us) identifying personal health goals.

When we establish goals for ourselves personally or professionally, it can be overwhelming at times since we think we know ourselves and like to believe we can do more than what's realistic. This results in your being overconfident or unrealistically confident. When you become overconfident, as bold and brazen as it sounds, you're actually lacking a certain amount of confidence of a particular kind. I'm sure you're wondering what I mean when I refer to "kind of confidence."

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Assertiveness: Standing Up for Yourself

Although some people don’t view it this way, being assertive is a positive thing. Unfortunately, people often equate assertiveness with aggression, stubbornness or being opinionated; moreover, this is especially true when an assertive person happens to be a woman as well.

In reality, however, assertiveness simply means having the conviction to say no when you’re unconvinced that something is right. Additionally, it means that you have created defined boundaries that you want others to honor and respect. When we view assertiveness this way, it has no negative connotations. The problem, of course, is that many people don’t have this view of assertiveness.

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Assert Yourself

The Need to Be Assertive

Assertiveness is a positive trait; however, few people truly see it as such. More often than not, people confuse being assertive with being aggressive, stubborn, or opinionated. Additionally, this happens more often in cases when the assertive person is a woman!

Being assertive simply means putting your foot down when you are not convinced about something and having the conviction and guts to say no when you don’t want to say yes. It also means you have very defined boundaries that you are asking others to respect and honor. According to this definition, assertiveness has no negative connotations attached to it. The problem is that most people do not understand the concept of assertiveness.

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Assert Yourself

The Need to Be Assertive

Assertiveness is a positive trait; however, few people truly see it as such. More often than not, people confuse being assertive with being aggressive, stubborn, or opinionated. Additionally, this happens more often in cases when the assertive person is a woman!

Being assertive simply means putting your foot down when you are not convinced about something and having the conviction and guts to say no when you don’t want to say yes. It also means you have very defined boundaries that you are asking others to respect and honor. According to this definition, assertiveness has no negative connotations attached to it. The problem is that most people do not understand the concept of assertiveness.

Continue reading here.