Lack Of Communication
Lack of communication. That’s a powerful phrase. One that can either help you succeed or fail in life and in business.
I’ve never claimed to be perfect, and at various times in my life, I too have lacked in my communication skills with friends, family and in business…
However, there is a silver lining because over the years, I’ve become much better at communication, so good that people have called me an ass or a jerk at times for being so blunt.
This brings me to the next part of this rant.
In email, sometimes proper communication doesn’t come through as we might have intended.
With text there isn’t any tone or real mood set which can make emails that were meant to be light hearted sound really bad or promote the wrong message.
I always try to put a little smile face like this :) in my emails or posts if I’m messing around or intend for my email to be taken lightly or with a grain of salt.
Reasons like this is why I like communicating via voice on the telephone, Skype or even in person. It really helps solve so many communication glitches this way.
For the record, I like to mess with people. If I like you, I mess with you. If it bothers you, tell me… communicate to me that my words or actions are upsetting you.
Believe it or not, I do have respect for people and never want to hurt someone on purpose or make them feel bad.
Anyway, to bring this post to a close, here are some of the lyrics from a song titled “Lack Of Communication” by one of my favorite 1980′s metal bands Ratt off their album “Out Of The Cellar”:
Too many problems, the world can’t solve
Too many people, no-one wants to be involved
(Lack of communication, back off)Keep rearranging, it’s all the same
Always saying, someone else is to blame
(Lack of communication, back off)Look all around me, who’s standing tall
Hold tight, no-one’s gonna answer your call
(Lack of communication, back off)Put up our boundaries, we build our walls
It’s alright, no-one’s gonna change us at all
(Lack of communication, back off)Time’s passing us by, we have our reason
No-one wants to try, we have our reason
Questions asking why, we have our reason
Problems still arise, we have our reason…
Artist: Ratt
Album: Out Of The Cellar
Original Release Date: 1984
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Comments / What do you think?
January 1st, 2007
Having spoken to you and communicated via email I have always found you polite and pleasant to communicate with.
I do believe that sometimes people can be over sensitive and quick to anger or offend.
I guess you must like me ;-)
January 1st, 2007
Hi Ainslie. Thank you for your kind words.
You’ve always been polite and pleasant too but we all have our bad days.
Either way, if it’s a bad day or a good day, you’re correct, I do like you. You’re not such a bad guy… for a brit :)
January 3rd, 2007
Speaking of texts… I have a friend which whom I text often, he has the worst “sms presence” I have ever seen or read. I tried to explain this to him but he just doesnt get it…how do I get him to understand that “smileys” are OK to use?? :)