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Need a theme for your next meeting? Want to inspire co-workers with a rallying phrase? Looking for a principle to guide your everyday actions? Want your product to be easily remembered? Try creating a Try-Anglea new, work-related angle or perspective that’s easy to remember and easy to follow, one that encourages others to try, to stretch, to reach, to buy. Here’s how.

Limit your words.Try-Angles encourage people totry. But there’s another meaning: the prefixtri, meaningthree dictates the length of angle. Keep your motivational message down to three or four words.

Choose short words. It was Winston Churchill who noted thatbig [wo]men use little words. If you’ve any doubt at all about the big pull of little words, consider these:
Martin Luther King, Jr.,I have a dream.
Mother Teresa:We can do no great things, only small things with great love.
Sam Walton:Eliminate the dumb.
John F. Kennedy:Ask not what your country can do for you.
Black Elk, Oglala Sioux holy man:The life of man is a circle.
Twyla Tharp:Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

By contrast, consider the non-pull of big words.It is neither ameliorative of one’s current reality nor advantageous for reification of the future to garner the totality of one’s gallinaceous assemblage into a singular receptacle fabricated from the smaller extrusions of a large perennial plant that possesses a primary stem from which multiple outgrowths occur doesn’t motivate at all.Don’t put all your eggs in one basket does. Simplicity wins oversesquipedalian every single time.

Heighten awareness of what works. As you develop your Try-Angle, attune yourself to other messages that have withstood the test of timeprimarily because they have a limited number of words and those words are monosyllabic in nature. See what we mean by taking the following test. Identify the try-angle described by each of the following ten clues.

1. A backfiring presidential promise not to raise taxes____________________
2. An exhortation befitting Emily Post, Letitia Baldrige or your mom________________
3. A pronoun-vague recommendation from a sportswear firm_________________
4. An alliterative architectural axiom ____________________________
5. Caesar’s explanation for how to rule a defeated nation__________________
6. W. Edwards Deming’s advice for improving workplace morale_________________
7. Hope-driven message from Britain’s leader during World War II _________________
8. Message for youth from a star-connected First Lady________________
9. First part of LeRoy Satchel’s Paige message that ends withSomething may be
gaining on you. ______________
10. Military-inspired statement that today meansWin unconditionally_____________

Be upbeat. Be clear. And, above all else, be brief!

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Dr. Marlene Caroselli has owned her own business for the past quarter century. You can reach her at mccpd@frontiernet.net to learn more about her books/services….and also to get the answers for the quize.

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