Plan C: Assertiveness Tools for Daily Life

Shrink For The Shy Guy

Dr. Aziz: Social Anxiety And Confidence Expert, Author and Coach

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Careers, Business, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 649 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Discover How And When To Speak Up For Yourself

Setting boundaries, challenging others, and otherwise speaking up for yourself can be confusing, scary, and difficult. Join Dr. Aziz as he provides practical, specific guidance on exactly how to become more assertive in the areas that matter most to you.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Shrink for the Shy Guy.
0:05.0	This is the show for you if you are sick and tired of being held back by fear, self-doubt,
0:10.0	social anxiety, shyness, anything that's stopping you from you being you.
0:15.0	I'm going to share the most powerful tools and resources that I've been discovering over the last 15 years on my
0:21.8	journey to eradicate social anxiety and instill confidence, first in myself and then in every
0:28.4	single person that I meet on my journey. You're going to learn these tools and how to apply
0:32.9	them in your life now so that you can become the most free powerful bold authentic version of you.
0:43.8	Hey, welcome today's episode of the show. Today we're going to be talking about assertiveness.
0:49.3	Oh yeah, speaking up for yourself and really get into the nuts bolts of how to do it, when to do it, how to do it the most effective way, and really give you some tools and strategies that will help you.
0:59.2	Because, I mean, I go incredibly in depth into this in my book, Not Nice.
1:03.4	There's a whole chapter about speaking up and details about how to do it at work and your social life and your dating relationships.
1:09.0	Lots of examples.
1:09.8	So if you want the full course,
1:11.7	you know, go there for that. Not nice. You can get on Amazon and Audible. But today I want to
1:16.8	give you some tools because ultimately it's about facing your fear. Ultimately, it's about doing
1:22.6	what scares you, just like, you know, building your dating life and approaching someone you're
1:26.6	attracted to and being
1:27.6	able to go on dates more as yourself. Ultimately, it's about doing the thing that scares you and taking the
1:31.9	risk, the risk to approach, the risk to ask out, the risk to be more you on the date and say more
1:36.5	of what you think and ask more of what you really want and share yourself more authentically.
1:41.4	So that's the ultimate step. However, that can be hard because the reason we don't
1:47.8	want to take the risk, the reason we hesitate is because we're afraid of a negative outcome,
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