This is Steveer Robbins. Welcome to the Get It Done Guys, quick and dirty tips to work left and do more.

The problem with being a villain is that, well, you have to live like one. It was a gray, cold morning.

The wind whipped through the dark, foreboding castle, chilling the wicked witch to the bone.

This was not good. It's hard enough to be

evil when it's warm out, but when your toes stick out from beneath your too short blanket and get

cold, oh, it's enough to make you want to curl up with a purring kitty cat and sip hot chocolate.

And when you're evil, you just don't do that. It's in the union rules. So the witch called

to her minions. Forces of good, they have helpers,

teammates, and colleagues. All that forces of evil have are minions. Useful, yes, but they're not

exactly great for stimulating conversation. The weather disappoints, she proclaimed, fix it,

immediately. Her minions scurried out of the room. She heard hammering outside and smiled, imagining the

wonderful wood-burning heater they were going to have for her in just a few minutes.

They wheeled in a large metal box on wooden rollers.

Voila, cried the head minion. It bends space and time and turns the snow pure white.

Pure white. White Snow. W.T. F. The Wicked witch buried her head in her

hands. Forces of good always had colleagues with PhDs. Minions, not so much. Some of the

wicked witch's problems are simply communication. She knows exactly what she wants, warmth, either a heater or maybe little booties to protect her feet,

but the language that she's using isn't language that will work with minions.

That's because to get your message across, you need to send it in ways that work for everyone.

In my career, and I've been doing public speaking and training professionally

for years, it seems that one distinction is very, very important in crafting your message,

and that's the difference between abstract and concrete. Abstract thinking is what drives

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