it's bad enough we get along so well

it's amazing how communication works or fails. i was talking on the phone with a candidate this afternoon and while his comm skills were perfect, the fact that his cellphone reception was crappy, made for a very difficult conversation. he called back later....

i've found that as ppl, we make a whole variety of assumptions. sometimes the foundation of our understanding is off a bit and down the road, things are said that make no sense, while the other person doesn't really speak up... and moving forward, that misconception takes root and becomes more solidified in one's perception. this includes our actions and other forms of communication; but i guess i'm discussing the act of "talking".

i realize that i require time and thought to really know what i'm thinking/feeling/emoting and convert it to some semblance of communication... while in other cases, i can't even speak what is so clear in my mind.... that is why i still have made some serious blunders in what i've actually communicated.. but alas.. you don't always have the chance to fix it/correct it/undo it... starting from scratch is usually a pipedream.

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since the start of my "new" job, i've been blessed (or cursed) with a ton of forwards/spam from ppl (i thot we stamped out that social problem back in '96/'97).
a man who we call "G-money" at work has this one on his email sig:

People will forget what you said.
People will forget what you did.
But people will never forget how you made them feel.

(i try to be like an elephant, so i do some mental editing of the above saying)

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went up to a rented "cottage" (a house really) with delta peeps in collingwood and learned just how much snowmaking Blue Mountain is capable of.

yay for ja, an & giz who embarked on snowboarding for the first time!

some pix

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