Um....

I want you to do something for me. A little experiment, if you will.

For the next 24 hours pay close attention to anyone you hear talking. Radio show hosts, people on the news, people you're talking with, whoever. I want you to listen for, and pay attention to how many times people say "Um".

Once you start consciously hearing this, I think you'll notice that people say this an awful lot!

Now, here comes the second thing I'm going to ask you to do. This is hard. I know, because I've been trying this with myself for the last few weeks.

The next time that you have a conversation with anybody, try not to say "um".

Think this is going to be easy? It's not. This one little syllable is such an important part to our everyday conversation that I think you will find it extremely hard to have a conversation without saying it.

Just try it. Let me know what happens by, um, leaving comments. :)