Dear anxiousangel:

You wrote above (post before last): “nothing matters except the image”- this is what salesmanship is about: it is all image, all the potential buyer’s perception. Authenticity of product is irrelevant. All that matters is image. This is how politicians sell themselves. Products are people too. I would like you to no longer be a product. Or a source of products to be sold.

Take yourself out of the marketing world for a while. For always, even better. Quit marketing. Quit selling completely.

Switch to “product development” but not for the sake of selling. That is, switch to authenticity.

Where to start? Right where you are, in the very circumstances of your daily life. No longer aim at a goal out there, in the future. Aim at living differently now, here and now where you are. Do things differently. Why not tell people the truth when you once lied. Why not? You have nothing to lose and everything to gain.

Without authenticity, the truth, all the praise in the world is worthless because… all that praise is not for you. The praise, the reward all this time was for the marketed product, for the image, not for you. You were hidden.

So reveal yourself, today, in your life outside this forum, in person.

anita