Ever said to your self, I sure wish I could get an extra hour in my day. I could get so much more done. We’ll my friends the answer is just a few short words away. I will try and be brief.
I was recently on a business trip to Anchorage, Alaska. ( More online at http://www.chatalaska.com/ ) My biological clock got messed up after just 72 hours in the “last frontier”. Great place to visit by the way. So, the last week I have been suffering from a small fit of insomnia. Now, before you true sufferers of this horrific disorder blow up my e-mail box, let me say that after just a few nights of “suffering” I feel your pain, in a mild way. Sort of like a gnat. Gnats are just annoying enough to bother you, but not bad enough to waste much time killing the nagging insect. Oh great, now all you gnat lovers out there will blow up my e-mail box. Lol. To my point, I have recently spent many late night hours watching cable television. I have come to a realization of what is missing in today’s society…. Brevity! What would be so wrong with an intelligent individual assembling a simple, concise comment about a particular topic? Meetings without chairs is a great start, but that only works if the guy talking is willing to stop when his legs go numb. Brevity does not even appear in Wikipedia as a word to be defined rather as a definition of a comic strip. What? Something missing from Wikipedia? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brevity )
From http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/brevity
brev·i·ty Pronunciation: 'bre-v&-tEFunction: nounInflected Form(s): plural -tiesEtymology: Latin brevitas, from brevis: shortness of duration; especially : shortness or conciseness of expression
Do you recall in that recent political debate where one of the candidates answer to a complex question was just, “No.”? That got a lot of press. Why? Because it is so rare to hear someone exercise brevity. The new web site http://www.Twitter.com is all about communicating in short text from wherever you are. I think the point of Twitter.com is just my point. Please cut down the bush, we are all tired of you beating it. Just cut it down.
Now that this post is getting over 1,000 words to my exact point. I am going to be more brief. I would encourage you to be more brief. I think we all need to learn how brevity could make our daily lives better. Here is an oath you may wish to pass around, “I _______ promise to be more concise, more deliberate and more brief in all I do. I promise not to provoke others to long winded answers. I promise to share my passion for brevity with others I meet in life and my career. I further promise to spend the time I gain from being brief with my kids, my spouse and my God.” (Insert, dog, cat or hobby if you are single or do not believe in a higher power.)
As a matter of proving a point I am not even going to finish this blog pos………..
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