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You mean you can't read my mind?

Once again, I've had it hammered into my head that communication is important. The problem always boils down to me thinking that people can read my mind. In my traditional step-wise approach to problem solving, I hunted for a first step to take. For this first step, I chose to answer the question, "Who needs to know what I'm thinking and doing?" At this point in my life, it seems that I've got to communicate with a lot of people. It's far from an isolated time. At the very minimum, I've got to communicate with my girlfriend, my family, my housemates, my co-workers, and my customers. That's a lot of communicating to do — and this is just the bare minimum to get by. It's hard to even address this bare minimum. Now for the second step: given this narrowed down set of people to communicate with, what potential problems are there? The answer to this is different for each party concerned. For example, with my girlfriend, I've got to pick the right wo