Assertiveness Training
Organized Living and Personal Organization Skills

Assertiveness training is a great way to learn how to be assertive in achieving your organized living rights. Organizing your life is almost impossible if you always prioritize other people's needs above your own.

You must know how to be assertive in order to develop personal organization skills that put you in control of your own life.

You see organized living is much more than just buying closets systems and drawer organizers.

Organized living is really about you!!

Organizing your life really means improving the control over your life and your stuff.

If you always do what you've always done you'll always get what you already have.

So if you want a more orderly life than the one you have now you may just be faced with changing something!

Assertiveness training is a great way to learn how to be assertive in achieving the organizational rights as explained here.

Positive Attitude Tips

Positive Attitude Tips for Organized Living gives a more detailed exploration of how your attitudes, values, and beliefs might prevent you from organizing your life.

Organizing your life means that you will have to engage in some planning.

Assertiveness training is a way to do just that.

Examine ways that your negative self talk can influence organized living

Learning how to be assertive requires that you closely examine your beliefs about yourself and your beliefs about responsibilities and obligations to others.

Sometimes learning how to be assertive requires that cognitive distortions need to be reframed so that your own personal rights and obligations take a higher priority.

It is nearly impossible to develop any personal organization skills to help you lead an orderly life if you are always yielding to the rights, needs, and wants of others.

There are 4 basic rights to be explored in the Assertiveness Training Guide for Organized Living:

1. You have the right to an orderly, organized life that proceeds in a logical sequence.

This is the prime personal organization right. Nobody deserves to live in chaos and disorder. Your belief in this right is essential to establish organized living. Without a fundamental belief that you have a right to an organized life you are unlikely to achieve one!

2. You have the right to abandon the care of other people's stuff (OPS)

This page explains how to get out from under the burden of other people's stuff, and your belief that you are required to do look after OPS.

3. You have the right to say no, and not have to apologize for doing so.

This page examines the beliefs that prevent you from saying no to other's requests and offers suggestions for how to say no to other people so that you can be in control of your time, your space, and your stuff.

4. You have the right to focus on one thing at a time.