What About Me, What Do I Want? Becoming Assertive

By Barbara Small and Barbara Small

Learn practical tips and techniques for effective and assertive communication. This easy-to-read book is a practical and valuable resource for anyone who wants to improve their relationship with... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1412069319
• ISBN13: 9781412069311
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Length: 110 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Highly Recommended

Barbara Small offers some great hands on practical ideas that have changed my outlook on life and helped me become a more confident communicator. I am getting more of what I want from my relationships and from life in general.

Instructive and easy to learn from

Becoming assertive is no easy task whether you're trying to pump yourself up from being passive or dial down your aggression. This book gives you a straightforward take on assertiveness with a step-by-step approach that won't overwhelm you. I highly recommend it. Karen R. Koenig, LCSW, M.Ed.Nice Girls Finish Fat: Put Yourself First and Change Your Eating Forever,The Rules of "Normal" Eating: A Commonsense Approach for Dieters, Overeaters, Undereaters, Emotional Eaters, and Everyone in Between!,The Food and Feelings Workbook: A Full Course Meal on Emotional Health,What Every Therapist Needs to Know about Treating Eating and Weight Issues

Great Information

The book was a very good read, and it has a lot of opportunities for refection and contemplation of the subject matter presented. I found this book very user friendly.

A "Must Have Book" on Everyone's Book Shelves!

"This book provides "the what", "the why" and more importantly the "how to" in the pursuit of effective assertiveness. The practical tools provided, make the insightful knowledge come alive and work for me in the real world. This book is presented in a very real and honest environment which I can relate to. The information is clear, orderly and concise, which enhances learning and understanding in a very practical sense. Having these new tools at my finger tips is helping me to become more effectively assertive".

What about me, what do I want?

I loved the booked, easy to read and to understand. You might be assertive right now and you don't know it. Everyday we are assertive, be it saying "NO" to the lady at the department store, to the stranger at your front door selling you goods. It's as easy as just saying, "No thanks." It helped me realise assertive isn't being aggressive; it's the other person who can't or won't hear you or won't accept you Saying "NO" to them; that has the problem with your assertiveness. After reading this book you'll realise you can state what you want, and it's as easy as starting off with "NO thanks!"