The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

It’s a quote I first read in a fortune cookie as a teenager and was confused by it. The meaning flew over my head and the person who tried explaining it to me couldn’t bring the clarity I needed.

After many well intended thoughts of my own, life experience has made this proverb perfectly clear.

Now, more than ever, we are in a world that requires action.

Wanting to do something and thinking you should do it doesn’t actually get the job done. Committing to an action, on the other hand, without consideration of how it might be received also fails to do the job.

We are communicating in a world of half-truths, misinterpretations, poor reading skills and loss of tone over the written word.

What you want to say… what you mean to say… what you hope to get across… becomes irrelevant if the receiver interprets it wrong.

Since you can’t control the receiver, the best you can do is make sure your actions, and your message, is loud and clear.

Because that’s the only thing which you will be judged by in the end.