Jay Strickland

I was recently in a meeting where I listened to one of the participants state that they would “try” to get something done within a specified period of time.  Another member challenged that to say, do you intend to do it or not?  If you do then don’t say “try” just say you’re going to “do” it and let that be your word.  At first I considered it to just be a difference of opinions about the wording of a statement.  In several conversations since that time though I’ve caught myself using the phrase “I’ll try to…..<whatever>” and realized that when I really intended to get something done I didn’t use the word try, but rather said that I would “do” whatever the task was at hand.  Consider that next time you tell someone that you’re going to “try” to do something.

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