I know that we've been told throughout life just to try. Try hard. Give it a try. Give it the old college try. Well, at least we tried. Phooey!
What did we expect when we "tried"? To succeed or to likely fail? Think about it.
To try something is to approach is with less that 100% confidence or certainty - when we try a new food, a new route, a new hairstyle, a new anything.
However, to do something is to 100% committed to succeeding at it. We may come up short - but not because we just tried. We may fail because the task was larger than our preparation or skill level, but we approached it fully committed to making it work.
We should never try but always do.
When someone tells me they will try to call or try to keep an appointment, I dismiss it right then as not going to happen. They are not committed to making it happen and are giving themselves a built-in excuse.
What did we expect when we "tried"? To succeed or to likely fail? Think about it.
To try something is to approach is with less that 100% confidence or certainty - when we try a new food, a new route, a new hairstyle, a new anything.
However, to do something is to 100% committed to succeeding at it. We may come up short - but not because we just tried. We may fail because the task was larger than our preparation or skill level, but we approached it fully committed to making it work.
We should never try but always do.
When someone tells me they will try to call or try to keep an appointment, I dismiss it right then as not going to happen. They are not committed to making it happen and are giving themselves a built-in excuse.
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