Byte To Byte With Steve Johnsen

There are three words you can use that guarantee failure in just about any endeavor, including both business and personal life. Hi, this is Steve Johnsen, and today I want to talk to you about three words that will guarantee failure in your personal and professional endeavors. My friend Gary Barnes does an exercise in his boot camps. He asks everyone in the audience to put their pen on the table, and then instructs them to try to pick it up. Most people figure out after two or three times how to follow the instructions correctly—"Trying" to pick up the pen is not the same as actually picking it up! The words, "I will try," sound very positive, but in fact are a code for, "I am not committed to seeing this happen." If I ask someone to come to one of my training events and they say "I will try," I know that it will never really happen. Remember when Luke Skywalker's spaceship was stuck in the swamp? Luke thought it would be too hard, so when Yoda told him to get it out of the swamp, he said "I will try." In the