The envelope contained a sales pitch from a life insurance company with which there
had been no previous dealings, just lots of mailings from them over the years.
Did "Final Notification" mean the pitches were at last to stop? How wonderful!
Every kind of tactic under the Sun is employed these days to get us to buy something we may not want and might well be better without.
It seems that using manipulation is how just about everybody in the corporate world believes we have to do business if we are to succeed.
What a world of difference there is when, if we have something we believe might be valuable to others-quite different from something we concocted just to make money-we simply put it out there with no more enticement than factual information, merely letting people know what we have to offer and how it might benefit them.
When Presence guides us, no manipulation is required.
If we wish to be conscious in our business life, it's worth asking whether our "marketing" of ourselves is simply letting people know of a product or service, or whether it's trying any which way we can to get them to buy.
Consciousness dictates that there's a much better way than our world's current deceptive tactics. It's simply a matter of showing up, making our statement, and then allowing people the freedom to make their choice.
It's also the case that many of us wouldn't have lost so many friends who bought into various forms of marketing and did their utmost to persuade us that this was also the way for us to make a killing.