Exercise 1:

How to define assertiveness in everyday life? How to introduce assertiveness into your life with small changes? Start with:

• Defend your own rights, while recognizing the rights of others (it may be a seemingly trivial refusal to perform another "favor" for a colleague at work; e.g. not taking his mail to the secretary's office, as you are responding to a client's e-mail at the moment and you do not want to interrupt your work)

• Facing problems and being constructive to difficult situations (focusing on solutions, not finding the blame)

• Expressing your needs, views and feelings and making choices

• (consciously looking at your own life and discovering a sense of agency)

• Stay calm, practice relaxation techniques (breathing, yoga ...)

• building self-confidence and awareness of your rights, and thus the rights of others (self-confidence should be adequate to our skills, abilities and achievements)

• the art of speaking without respecting other people; thanks to which we achieve our goals without hurting others

• building high self-esteem, thanks to self-confidence we feel good and behave appropriately

It can be summed up that assertiveness is such a great quality that

the more assertive you are, the more respect others have for you. 

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