Hi, it's Robin Sharma. Welcome to the Mastery Sessions.

Hi, it's Robin Sharma, author of the leader who had no title, founder of the Titan Academy.

Well, this Mastery Session is all about how to prevent people taking advantage

of you.

I get this all the time as I crisscross the planet doing different events.

People say to me Robin, you know, I want to be a great person. You talk

about that, about humanity. You talk about shifting from being a victim to being a

leader. You talk about building relationships. You talk about Robin being generous in your work,

but you know when I do these things, when I become the kind of person that I know in my heart I want to be,

people take advantage of me.

Well, the starting point, people only take advantage of me. Well, the starting point,

people only take advantage of you

if you allow them to take advantage of you.

Being kind doesn't mean getting walked all over.

So I've always believed, and you've heard this before but people

treat us the way we teach them to treat us. If people are walking all over you and

taking advantage of you it's because you're not setting any boundaries.

Perhaps it's because you don't know how to communicate your needs.

So they do something and then it hurts you but you don't feel brave enough to speak up.

Do you know how many people on the planet basically don't speak up

because they're too afraid of losing the relationship or not being liked?

You gotta speak up. Do it in a respectful way, but say,

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