Miscommunication can be a big problem, in fact, it is a big problem.  It happens a lot.  Miscommunication can cause so many things to go wrong.  You can end up waiting to meet someone at right wrong time or wrong day, you can get your food order wrong, you can end up getting surgery on the wrong part of your body, you can hurt people’s feelings, you can lose a ball game, you can make someone look bad, you can do a lot of things…  I feel like I somehow frequently find myself surrounded by this “miscommunication” and I don’t like it very much.  It just makes everything difficult.  Actually, now that I think about it, miscommunication is often caused by people making assumptions.  Ever heard of that saying “don’t assume” because when you assume, you make an ass out of u and me?  People assume things and things get all out of hand.

So how can we be better communicators?  There must be no ambiguity.  Think before your act.  Communicate frequently?  Try to understand each other’s way of viewing things?  Know where the person is coming from?  Find out the goal?

How?