Assert Yourself

Friends walk all over you? Parents give you serious guilt trips? Broke because you lend all your money out? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you need to assert yourself. It's a painstaking process that interferes with a good personality trait, but it's only so you don't get hurt in the end.

Steps

 * 1)  If your friends expect you to pick up the tab some place, tell them "NO."
 * 2)  Parents like to make you feel like a guilt-laden creature and will use this tactic mercilessly so that you will stay home with them. Look your mother or father right in the eye and say, "I'm going out with my friends. Bye."
 * 3)  Just say no. A cousin or sibling asks for fifty bucks so they can fill up on gas or buy some illegal drugs with it. Tell them that you have other financial obligations right now and that you can't afford to fork over any dough at the moment.

Tips

 * Don't shake or mumble.
 * Be firm.
 * Be resolute.
 * Furrow your brow.
 * Ice your voice.
 * Let them know who is boss.

Warnings

 * Don't do this every day or people may mistake you for a miser! It's okay to bend to the will of others every other day, but not every day!

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