How confident do you feel about asserting yourself at home, at work or when you are out and about. Do you lack confidence and find it hard to be heard? Here are 10 proven strategies to help you to be assertive and take control of your life without being aggressive.

When living in a world where superficial connections and fleeting interactions can often be the norm, it is hard to know one's value, and has been rendered unimportant by a society that gets hooked on the validation of social media likes, tweets, and empty praise from people we don’t even know. We all know those aren’t the things that define us, they are born from a deep understanding of what we can do, and it is for us to remind ourselves of our past experiences, achievement

When you throw yourself into a challenge, be it a new job, a university course, or a personal project, you're essentially guaranteeing yours

Every time you come across a nasty comment, think of it as a pebble dropped into a pond. It's gone and won't be changing the calm surface of

creating a mental landscape that helps us glide over the obstacles that we inevitably come across. You may not know this but the key is..

Assertiveness is a life skill; useful both inside and outside work. However, the reactions and behaviors we employ now are the result of years of fine tuning. Being assertive doesn’t happen overnight, but the more practice you get, the more skilled you become.

Do you have a goal? A focus in life? Have you invested a great deal of time, effort, money to achieve and yet feel you haven’t made it yet? For all your effort do you still feel that there is something missing in your life? It is obviously very important to set goals in your life. It gives you a focus a way forward a mechanism for making decisions when faced with a number of options. However, it can also be a prison cell. How can making goals and having a focus be a prison ce

When you get right down to it, time management is really about managing your actions. We all want to use the process of time management to allows us to perform more actions in the day, getting everything done that needs to be done and giving us time to do the things we enjoy doing. But time management isn't a magical cure for getting the actions done that you need to do. It's simply a tool. A very powerful tool when used correctly, but still just a tool. For example, you migh

There was a time in my life, not long ago, I was out here down bad. SUPERBAD. Living a sad, secluded from the world, lonely and locked away. A heartbreak is nothing to play with. There also came a point where I cut the crap and quit waiting on love to come back I had to shake back and go get it by any means necessary. I had to chase my purpose, survive on my own and still take care of the family. I wasn't going to let a heartbreak stop my life from increasing like it's suppos

"The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of others”