At work, Marcos was the go-to person for last-minute favors. “Hey, Marcos, can you stay late again?” “Marcos, you’re so good at this — just do it for me this once.” He never said no. He thought he was being kind, being spiritual, being like Wayne Dyer — above ego, above conflict.
“You’re not being loving,” she said. “You’re being used. There’s a difference.”
Marcos had always admired Dr. Wayne Dyer’s teachings. He kept a worn copy of Your Sacred Self on his nightstand, and his favorite quote was: “What you think of me is none of my business.” But knowing the words and living them were two different things. Wayne W Dyer 2 Evite Ser Utilizado.pdf
That night, Marcos opened a PDF his therapist had sent him months ago but he’d never read: “Evite Ser Utilizado” — Avoid Being Used. It wasn’t by Wayne Dyer, but it cited him heavily. One line stopped him cold:
From that day on, he lived by a new rule: help freely, but never from fear. And he kept the PDF on his desktop — not as a weapon, but as a reminder that avoiding being used isn’t selfish. It’s sacred. At work, Marcos was the go-to person for last-minute favors
Then one day, a coworker named Lisa took credit for a project Marcos had done entirely by himself. When he hesitated to speak up, his friend Elena pulled him aside.
Translated, the title means "Wayne W. Dyer 2: Avoid Being Used." “You’re not being loving,” she said
For the first time, Marcos felt lighter. He wasn’t being rude — he was being real. And as Wayne Dyer once wrote: “The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.” Marcos had rejected his own worth. Now, he chose to know it.