If you do not assert yourself when opportunities arise, you won’thave your needs met. Just ask.
You go out with your spouse for dinner. As you follow the restau-rant hostess, you notice two nice empty tables. But the hostess leads
you to the absolute worst table possible—sandwiched between the kitchen doors and the entrance to the restrooms.
Yet, not only do you accept her choice, but you even thank her for it. And for the next two hours, you endure a thoroughly disagreeable atmosphere—the revolving kitchen doors on your left and the restroom traffic on your right.
But why did you accept that table? Why didn’t you ask the hostess for one of the two better tables? And why did you even thank her?
Why didn’t you assert yourself? Is it because you didn’t want to cause a scene? Or you wanted to fit in and please people?
IF YOU DON’T ASK, YOU DON’T GET!
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About Writer
Nabil Fanous, MD, is a surgeon, a universityteacher, and a speaker at majorinternational medical conferences. He ispresently chief of the Division of Facial andReconstructive Surgery and associateprofessor at the Department of Head andNeck Surgery for McGill University inMontreal. Dr. Fanous is the author of TheUniversal Rules of Life: 27 Secrets forManaging Time, Stress, and People(Forefront Books, 2022).
