Let’s Talk

By talking and words we communicate. With other ways, we also communicate by our actions and our body language. Using these means we are able to convey messages to other fellow humans. Nevertheless, despite our best efforts we are not always able to communicate successfully, and if we do, it can be the wrong message.

Have you ever heard someone speak a different language to you? Most likely if you didn’t speak the language, you wouldn’t understand it. Although, they are talking to you, you are not understanding what they are saying. While that might seem obvious, what they are not doing is communicating to you. As communication is sending information and others understanding it.

In understanding communication, it’s a big misconception to believe that by talking we will always successfully communicate. Nor is it true that by not talking communication is not happening.

Good communication involves, knowing what your trying to say and not what your not trying to say. It must be clear and concise for others to understand. Furthermore, taking the time to communicate is very important.

Moreover, the methods are sometimes the utmost of importance. For instance, you don’t propose to someone over the phone with a text. Although they would receive what you are saying in words, they wouldn’t receive what you are fully saying. Instead they will receive a different message from what you desire.

Above all, if your going to communicate, the main purpose is to make sure that the receiver understands fully what you are trying to say and mean. When we speak, we are not just communicating with the words we speak, but we emphasis or our bodies give meaning to the words. How we conduct ourselves when we communicate with: places, actions, and words, will define how someone receives a message.

In essence, even if your communication methods are flawless, it doesn’t mean that things will be perfect. People aren’t perfect and sometimes people have blocked ears. Finding the best means to work around people’s blocked ears and distractions is the key to communicating.

However, at the end of the day, the only thing that separates good communication and bad communication is that the person your communicating understands or doesn't understand what you are trying to imply or say.