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Protecting and nurturing your health and emotional well being by communicating your needs assertively in your relationships is a part of taking self-responsibility for your actions.  Other important parts of self-responsibility include:

• Acknowledging that you are solely responsible for the choices in your life.
   
• Accepting that you are responsible for what you choose to feel or think.
   
• Accepting that you choose the direction for your life.
   
• Accepting that you cannot blame others for the choices you have made.
   
• Recognizing that you are your best cheerleader; it is not reasonable or healthy for you to depend on others to make you feel good about yourself.
   
• Recognizing that as you enter adulthood and maturity, you determine how your self-esteem will develop.
   
• Taking preventive health oriented steps of structuring your life with time management, stress management, confronting fears, and burnout prevention.
   
• Taking an honest inventory of your strengths, abilities, talents, virtues, and positive points.