In the Newsletter: 5 Words That Make or Break Any Conversation

The last Achieve-IT! newsletter was a hit. It was the most popular of all the newsletters I’ve sent so far. In it, I answered the question How Do You Make Small Talk? Afterwards, many of you emailed me to let me know you were shy and that the newsletter had really given you a way to break the ice. At the end of the newsletter I promised a followup to it which is the 5 Words That Make or Break Any Conversation. I fell way behind on getting that out to you.

Some readers got mad at it taking me so long and cancelled their subscriptions. I got some emails asking me if they missed it. Others probably lost faith I’d ever get it out at all.

Let this post be my explanation.

The plan was simple, paste in the report and send it. I wrote that report many years ago and I simply couldn’t put my hands on it. It was well received at the time I first released it. So what that means is I’d have to do a rewrite. That normally wouldn’t be a big deal, but then life got in the way. You know what I mean. You have these events like a job, health issue or relationship matter that gets in the way of a project you want to complete…then you end up with a broken promise or a promise delayed.

In my case, it is a promise delayed. I’ve been involved with 2 major network migrations (not related to this blog). Both were NT4 to 2003 migrations and as the other admins might recognize, the migration is easy…the cleanup is hard. There were many late nights. Normal “newsletter writing time” was consumed with Active Directory structuring, shares and permissions.

Now with that out of the way, I believe I’m back on track to have the newsletters back on a regular every two week(ish) schedule. The next issue will go out this coming Tuesday.

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