A week of paradox … my Top 10

I was walking the dog this morning and it occurred to me how much of the last week has been full of paradox.

In no particular order …

1, Do you find as often as I do that food that’s good for you isn’t usually as good for your wallet as food that’s not?

2, Business is like a snow ball rolling down a hill: it grows faster the bigger it gets. So why don’t we focus on getting the small snow ball right and rolling first?

3, I was shocked to realise a while back, and was reminded often last week, that the information (learning) we most need to hear is often the stuff that irritates us the most.

4, “Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky in morning, sailor’s warning.”  Watching the sun rise last week I wondered, if that’s true, why is something so beautiful sent to let us know about impending doom?

5, I responded to this tweet about wedding photography. I was concerned about what was being implied. The paradox is, statistics can seem to say everything, when so often they say nothing. We need to deeply understand what surrounds them before we draw conclusions. No disrespect intended, BTW, Jeff’s a great guy.

6, Why is it that when I exercise our dog, he has me walk slower than my wife does when she and I take a relaxing stroll.

7, I read an article that basically said …. “If I want to be a better me, I should be more like someone else”. If confidence is so important in business, why do so many consultants focus on showing you case studies of people you could emulate, rather than helping you see what’s good already, so you can build on that.

8, In my part time job as a volunteer fireman you cope by distancing yourself from the emotion of a situation. In my day job, however, our business is about celebrating it.

9, For some “low price = quality”, for others like me, it has nothing to do with it.

10, We live in a wonderful world where we share our lives openly on blogs and in places like Facebook. We feel connected, we feel involved, but somehow this living in the moment … being on display … makes moments of privacy more precious … and makes the need to preserve our memories more, not less, important.

Stay well, enjoy your paradoxes … maybe even share your own by leaving a comment.

Cheers
Stephen

PS Shakespare was even more dramatic about #4 in his work, Venus and Adonis. “Like a red morn that ever yet betokened, Wreck to the seaman, tempest to the field, Sorrow to the shepherds, woe unto the birds, Gusts and foul flaws to herdmen and to herds.”

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