• You have the right to judge your own behavior, thoughts and emotions, and to take the responsibility for their initiation and consequences upon yourself.
  
  

• You have the right to offer no reasons or excuses for justifying your behavior.
  
  

• You have the right to judge if you are responsible for finding solutions to other people's problems.
  
  

• You have the right to change your mind.
  
  

• You have the right to make mistakes -- and be responsible for them.
  
  

• You have the right to say, "I don't know."
  
  

• You have the right to be independent of the goodwill of others before coping with them.
  
  

• You have the right to be illogical in making decisions.
  
  

• You have the right to say, "I don't understand."
  
  

• You have the right to say, "I don't care."
  
  

• You have the right to say NO, without feeling guilty.
  
  

Manuel J. Smith, Ph.D. -
' When I say no, I feel guilty '