112. How to become more assertive in all areas
Do You F*cking Mind?
Alexis Fernandez-Preiksa - Neuroscientist and Mindset Coach
4.9 • 914 Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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This episode goes into how to become more assertive. I talk about what assertiveness is and is not, and give exact tips on improving your assertiveness in all areas of your life.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my beautiful angels of the land, my beans. Welcome to today's episode. It's all about |
| 0:06.2 | assertiveness. Being assertive, I did a call out like a little question box on my Instagram and I got |
| 0:12.2 | people to answer where they struggled to be assertive and with who they struggled to be |
| 0:16.9 | assertive with. So I'm going to go into all of that. There's a lot to cover in this, |
| 0:23.2 | kind of with this topic, because I'm going to show you what assertiveness is, what it's not. |
| 0:28.5 | I'm going to go a little bit into communication styles, but I feel like that needs a whole |
| 0:32.5 | podcast on itself. So I won't go too deep into that, but it does kind of give you an insight into |
| 0:38.6 | your style of, like if you are assertive or if you're not. And then I'm going to go into |
| 0:43.8 | why it is so crucial that you are assertive and how that actually impacts your self-esteem |
| 0:51.0 | and your self-love and all of that. So it's pretty cool and it's actually, while initially it's hard, |
| 0:57.8 | it's kind of easier to become assertive than a lot of people think it is. |
| 1:02.2 | Okay, so let's kind of break down those barriers and get you being assertive as fuck |
| 1:05.8 | and get you really improving that relationship with yourself. |
| 1:08.8 | So before we get into that, as always, I'm going to give you a little bit of an update on my |
| 1:14.1 | week. |
| 1:14.8 | I think I told you guys last week that I am moving out of my apartment. |
| 1:20.6 | So I have, now it's a little, it's like a week and two days until I move. |
| 1:25.3 | But I have pretty much packed 90% of my shit into boxes. |
| 1:31.2 | And this is, I'm two extremes. |
| 1:33.3 | I am two extremes. |
| 1:34.5 | I'm the kind of person that leaves either everything to the last minute. |
| 1:37.9 | And I mean, this is when it comes to packing and organizing to go away and things like that, |
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