Say it with less

When it comes to speaking, writing, emails, tweets, instant messages, whatever – we often say more than we need to. Services like Twitter help with that, with the 140 character limit. But no such limits exist when talking to another human in real life, or composing an email. Since limits aren’t built in, you need to create limits.

Get to the point

Instead of blabbering on, get to the point. The meat and potatoes. Say it and get on with it. Don’t write for 8 paragraphs, building up to what you want to tell me. Just tell me. If the message is good, I’ll be interested, and glad that you didn’t waste my time. If you make me wait, and the message is weak, I’m going to be a little ticked off.

Simplify, simplify

If you don’t have to come up with so much “fluff”, you’ll be free to do more. Or less. The point is, simplifying your words gives you more time, more freedom. Do what you want with the extra time, even if what you want is nothing. Doing nothing is doing something, and there’s nothing wrong with that at all.