Seven Ways to Stop People from Taking Advantage of You
Here are seven tips which if utilised will help to protect you from those who wish to take advantage of you
Those who take advantage of others do so by trying to get as much as they can from a person for as little as they can offer in return. The person trying to take advantage normally tries to sell themselves as being of high value, while at the same time implying that the person they are taking advantage of is of low value.
That helps them to get as much as they can for as little in return as they can give. In this post, I share seven tips for how to stop people from doing this.
Start acknowledging your true worth
“Look in the mirror and see the true beauty of your reflection, and you will rob people of their power to define your worth.”
A common way that people get taken advantage of is that they believe that they are worth a lot less than they actually are. Rectifying this, and acknowledging your true worth, is a great way to stop people from taking advantage of you.
Learn to say no
“A person who never says no, is a person who is doomed to be loved by all the wrong people for all the wrong reasons.”
Some people will ask and ask and ask and take and take and take so long as a person keeps saying yes. This is frequently how people get taken advantage of — they come across a person who keeps asking for more. Learning to say no to people like this is a great way to stop yourself from being taken advantage of.
Stop assigning people higher values than they deserve
“If you think someone is worth more than you, your thinking is just as wrong as if you think someone is worth less than you.”
If you believe a person to be of high worth, it is really easy to start giving them whatever they want to keep them happy — because you want to keep them in your life and think that this is the only way that you can do so.
But no one is worth more than you are, just as you are worth no more than anyone else. Acknowledging this and never giving a person a greater value than you give yourself is a great way to stop people from manipulating you.
Acknowledge that relationships of all kinds are transactions
“Nothing is free, not even love, for what is the point of loving if you do not receive love in return?”
Relationships are transactions, you should never give more than you are getting, and you should never get more than you are giving. It is all about equality. Ten pounds for ten pounds.
Remembering that the key to all relationships is both parties bringing something of equal value to it, is a great way to stop yourself from being manipulated — because it means you’ll never be afraid to ask for your true worth.
Stop being afraid of breaking the peace
“The favourite person of those who wish to do wrong, is any person who is afraid of breaking the peace.”
Once someone has started taking advantage, stopping them without causing big problems can be difficult to do, the reason being human relationships, whether they be friendship-based ones, romantic-based ones, family-based ones, workplace-based ones, whatever, are bound by one desire, to keep the peace.
In this desire is the problem, when someone starts to take advantage of you, to stop them, you have to break the peace. So if you are afraid of breaking the peace, it can be really hard to stop people from taking advantage of you. This is why fighting to overcome this fear is a great way of stopping from taking advantage of you.
Stop being afraid to ask for what you deserve, and start calling out those who don’t give it
“You get what you ask for, ask for nothing and you will get nothing.”
We all deserve to be given things, even if it’s just thanks for the things that we give. We all deserve it. The best way to get it is by never being afraid to not only expect it but to call out those who don’t give it.
So a great way to stop people from taking advantage of you is to never be afraid to ask to be given your true worth and to never be afraid to call out those who won’t give it.
Final words
“You are worth the same as everyone else. Never let anyone, least of all yourself, forget that.”
Only you have the power to set your true value, no one else. And you set your value through your actions. If you let people take things from you for nothing in return, whether that be your time, whatever, you are telling people that your worth is very low, and that as a result they have the right to take things from you for very little or perhaps even nothing in return.
That means the key to stopping people from taking advantage of you, is to stop letting people take things from you for nothing. Demand your worth from people, and if they don’t give it, find new people who will.
Doing this will not alienate you from people, it will fill your life with people who truly value you — because they’ll be the people who are willing to give you the respect that you deserve by not taking advantage of you.
That’s all from me, thanks for reading!
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