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When you want to use initials to help people remember things
Comedian Bob Monkhouse used to say presentation skills were all about your ABC and XYZ:
- Always Be Confident
- eXamine Your Zipper
Great advice!
Another example: my wife Emma read lots of baby books when Maia was born. But, when she had Tom nearly four years later, she didn’t re-read one of them – Secrets of the Baby Whisperer – because she remembered it’s advice about making things EASY:
- Eat – when the baby wakes up, give her food.
- Activity – after the food, encourage her to do something.
- Sleep – after the activity, put her to sleep.
- You – when she’s asleep, do something you want to do.
And one more example: when people ask me for an easy way to prepare communication, I tell them to RAMP it up: ...
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