CHAPTER 8

Discover and Rediscover Your Inner Fighter

  • Daily assertiveness
  • Defining standards
  • Taking a stand
  • Overplaying helpful

The untenable situation may need us to dig in and take a stand—fight for what is valued. Too many people are passive and ignore setting standards for themselves. They let the standards of others take over and influence their moves.

Daily Assertiveness

Once, on a walk with my young daughter and my old dog, we were confronted by a Rotteweiler who was so aggressive that he broke out of a glass window of his house to try and get to us. As any parent would do, I got between the Rottweiler and my “pack” and shouted him off. We all have a fighter in us that can be called out when necessary. The problem is when we take ...

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