Monday Morning Motivation – Assertive
(Sharing Resources to Help You Grow Personally, Professionally & Financially)
Sometimes it helps to get a little dose of encouragement — along with a good cup of coffee! — to start the day.
Hopefully the message below will help you get off to a good start for the week. Please feel free to forward the newsletter on to others that you think would benefit from the content.
Assertive
There is likely going to be a few folks that read this and cringe when I suggest that being assertive is a positive characteristic. The reason for this is because many, many individuals associate being assertive with being overbearing. The reality is that they are two vastly different things.
Being assertive requires that:
- You have an opinion/conviction
- You believe strongly in that opinion/conviction
- You are willing to stand up for/voice that opinion/conviction
It differs from being overbearing in that you do NOT attempt to force others to adopt or follow that opinion/conviction.
Being assertive means that you are willing to “take a stand” for what you believe in. That takes courage (reminder: I define courage as putting yourself at risk for the betterment of others). That means that you may not always be in a comfortable place: SHORT TERM when you are assertive. However, long term, standing up for your opinions/convictions is almost always a good thing.
That brings us to today’s question:
- Are you willing to be assertive with your opinions and convictions?
Thanks for sharing a bit of your time with me this Monday morning and I wish you all the best for the week.
Curt
(Note: Each week I publish “Monday Morning Motivation” in the hopes that one person will find a bit of inspiration and that inspiration will have a positive impact on their life. My motivation comes from experiences, reading, sermons, and discussions. For the next several months I’m going to be drawing from Zig Ziglar’s book “Over the Top”. It’s a great source of inspiration and wisdom and I would be remiss if I didn’t give him credit up front for the motivation)
Blog posts from this past week:
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