Personal Bill of Rights

• I have a right to all those good times that I have longed for all these years and didn't get.
  
  
• I have a right to joy in this life, right here, right now - not just a momentary rush of euphoria but something more substantial.
  
  
• I have a right to relax and have fun.
  
  
• I have a right to actively pursue people, places, and situations that will help me in achieving a good life.
  
  
• I have a right to say no whenever I feel something is not safe or I am not ready.
  
  
• I have a right to take calculated risks and to experiment with new strategies.
  
  
• I have a right to change my tune, my strategy, and my funny equations.
  
  
• I have a right to mess up: to make mistakes, to blow it, to disappoint myself, and to fall short of the mark.
  
  
• I have a right to put an end to conversations with people who make me feel put down and humiliated.
  
  
• I have a right to all my feelings.
  
  
• I have a right to trust my feelings, my judgment, my hunches, my intuition.
  
  
• I have a right to develop myself as a whole person emotionally, spiritually, mentally, physically, and psychologically.
  
  
• I have a right to express all my feelings in a non-destructive way and a safe time and place.
  
  
• I have a right to as much time as I need to experiment with this new information and these new ideas and to initiate changes in my life.
  
  
• I have a right to sort out the bill of goods my parents sold me -- to take the acceptable and dump the unacceptable.
  
  
• I have a right to a mentally healthy, sane way of existence, though it will deviate in part, or all, from my parents prescribed philosophy of life.
  
  
• I have a right to follow any of the above rights, to live my life the way I want to!
  
  
• I have a right to be me - myself - and not have to appologize to anyone for who I am.

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