Welcome to Darren Daily on demand, your most trusted resource to help you become better every day.

Here's your success mentor Darren Hardy.

Yesterday I started providing mentorship on a question to me by Rowit.

Could you please do a piece on how to make a terrific first impression beyond being

impeccably dressed, he asked.

So this morning, grab your coffee, tea, or smoothie, and let's continue the discussion.

Here's number two. Stop baking it. Be real, be transparent, be authentic, and be yourself. Hopefully your improved

self after working on point number one yesterday. Too often people spend incredible amounts of energy trying to project themselves as something they're not.

Most of their conversation is spent trying to impress, and they think that they have everybody around them snookered.

Here's the reality.

Nobody is fooled.

People are always transparent, even when they think they aren't.

I'm sure you meet people all the time who say the right things, who look the part, but you just know in your gut even if you can't put your

intellectual finger on it that they are just full of hooey. Have you ever been

talking with someone and they everything they say sounds right yeah yeah not sure I could see how that can happen yeah yeah that makes sense

But you just know they're lying.

We are all intuitive and sensitive beings.

We can feel the truth.

We can sense authenticity,

and we can sense when it isn't present.

Projecting pretense only pushes people away from you,

quickly and regularly.

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