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4 days ago
People push me around because I am ‘nice’. I’m done, I want to start standing up for myself and what I believe in. I am a 26 year old woman, and the co-workers at the office are gossiping about me. This is BS.
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How to stand up for myself
It made me
empowered.
 How I did it: If you would have asked anyone that knew me a year ago what they thought of me, the likely answer would have been something along the lines of "she's really nice and friendly", which is merely code word for "she's a doormat". Possessing a disposition that revolved around a combination of wanting to be liked and trying to avoid confrontation, I had rather accidentally allowed everyone around me to treat me as anything but an equal.
Lessons & tips: Here is a list of things to remind yourself of on a daily basis:
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sweet vv is getting there!
i think i'm getting there!
5 days ago
well, finally, huh? i’ve been pushing myself into it for more than 12 months already. i’m really starting to put myself in first place and don’t mind about what other people may think. afterall i’m the one living my life, not them.
the key is to listen only to those who you think that really care about you and pay attention to those who really irritate you, because if it irritates you, it must be something that you deeply want to change too.
i think i’m finally getting there.
hazeltov is climbing...
Boy, if only it was as easy as “standing up” – however, dealing with difficult people often requires sitting on your hands when you most feel standing up and smacking the fool who is causing you greif. Anyone else have the experience of having to tone down their assertiveness to placate the insecurity nit wits in positions of power and authority?
Realizing how important this is-
1 month ago
This will come in handy especially at work- I feel that I always get walked over and let people who are equal to me tell me what to do. If I want to make it up the latter it is time that I start to “stand up for myself!”
sweet vv is getting there!
finding out what i really care, so i can be able to stand up for what i believe, no matter what people may think.
what keeps me away from that is that i’m not really doing everything i know i can be able to do. and that makes me not really proud of myself. there’s not much i can stand up for.
will power and achieve some of my goals here should be enough.
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The way to be a true person
2 months ago
I’m like that, way too passive. I want to be respected, treated as an equal, I want to be someone.
I don’t want to be pushed again.
I don’t want to loose to myself again.
I don’t want to fear rejection again.
But one of the things that I really want is to “Stand up for myself”.
Sometimes standing up for yourself
2 months ago
means not taking the bait in the first place. The bait: learn it, recognize it, deflect it. Like with those Wonder Woman bracelets.
hazeltov is climbing...
Untitled
2 months ago
I thought this meant asserting myself, so far as other people are concerned. I’m beginning to realize it means asserting myself so far as I am concerned. I need to change my attitude at a fundamental level. I need to stand up for my own self, because no one is going to be doing and standing for me, or they should not do any standing for me, because I am entirely capable of doing this for myself.
sweet vv is getting there!
monthly review on "stand up for myself"
2 months ago
i think the key for this it’s been finding myself, my true self and what i really believe, what i really stand for and overcome the fear. why should i fear? i’m intelligent, i can take care of myself.
My wants and needs are important.
2 months ago
As important as anybody’s, and as valid as anybody’s. I deserve to have me stand up for what I want and need.
