“No
one else knows exactly what the future holds for you, no one else knows what
obstacles you've overcome to be where you are, so don't expect others to feel
as passionate about your dreams as you do.”
Germany
Kent
A
little while ago, I wrote a blog post titled: The Most Transparent Blog Post
I’ve Ever Written (which you can read here)
and in it, I talked about being given – numerous times now – the label of
‘influencer’ by others. I decided to do some research at the beginning of the
post, in the hope that it would provide me with evidence to fight me meeting
the definition of the label, but instead, I found (in this
article) that due to the following of I’m NOT Disordered (2.3 million readers)
I’d be deemed a ‘Mega-Influencer!’ And on talking to my Waythrough
Recovery Worker, I agreed that my blog is at a standing in terms of both
popularity and reputation, that I can no longer demean or deny it. So, here I
am(!) agreeing to be an Influencer! Now, this blog post was actually inspired
by a recent meeting with a few of Waythrough’s Communications and Marketing
team, where the idea of the organisation working with Influencers was
discussed. The Manager said that I was the ‘perfect person’ to have involved
because of my ability to bring actual, lived insight into this world, and so,
here’s the blog post which provides guidance to working with an Influencer…
