Bill of Assertive Rights

The Bill of Assertive Rights comes from assertiveness training book, "When I Say No, I Feel Guilty" by Manuel J. Smith.

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Bill of Assertive Rights

The ‘Bill of Assertive Rights’ in "When I Say No, I Feel Guilty" reads as follows:

1. You have the right to judge your own behaviour, thoughts, and emotions, and to take the responsibility for their initiation and consequences upon yourself.

2. You have the right to offer no reasons or excuses for justifying your behaviour.

3. You have the right to judge if you are responsible for finding solutions to other people’s problems.

4. You have the right to change your mind.

5. You have the right to make mistakes – and be responsible for them.

6. You have the right to say, ‘I don’t know’.

7. You have the right to be independent of the goodwill of others before coping with them.

8. You have the right to be illogical in making decisions.

9. You have the right to say, ‘I don’t understand’.

10. You have the right to say, ‘I don’t care’.