I want you to be long-winded and unclear, said no one ever.

We have a saying on our team, be, be, be brief, be brilliant, and then be gone.

As Mark Twain confessed when he wrote, I would have written you a shorter letter, but I didn't have the time.

So if you want to be more brief and brilliant, there are three tips.

You ready? Here we go.

Welcome to Darren Daly on demand, your most trusted resource to help you become better every day. Here's your success mentor,

Darren Hardy. I want you to be long-winded and unclear. said no one ever. We have a saying on our team,

be, be, be brief, be brilliant, and then be gone. Talk in shorthand, lead with the headline,

and then we'll ask you for the article of explanation if we're interested. Your audience is

already drowning by being water-borded with information all day every day.

Please save their life. Be the one who gives them a breath. Follow the proverb. Less is better

than more. Getting to the point is critical to communication skill. Be brief. Use as few words

as possible to say what's needed. Everyone will appreciate it.

But most adopt the philosophy if you can't convince them, drown them in bullshit talky.

Each of these Darren Daly's could be 45 to 60 minutes, as most podcasts are out there.

I work really hard at distilling down, condensing down a poignant idea into the few

minutes that we share here each morning. It's why it takes me so long to write and prepare each

Darren Daily episode for you four to six hours each. As Stephen King wrote in his book on writing,

this is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshut-ta-bull-h-h-h-h-hit-talkie.

I figured the short of the book, the less the bullshit-talkie.

The same is true for Darren Daly.

Instead, most people blather on and put the time burden on their audience.

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