The Paradox of Connection

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This week has been a constant reminder of one of life’s most confounding absurdities— the contradiction.

I often daydream about having quiet moments of alone time, but soon after Cranky Dad and Baby Girl leave the house, I miss them and wonder if I should have just gone to the park, too.

I routinely ask my clients to write down their goals and create detailed plans to achieve them. In the same breath, I extol the value of staying present so that life might reveal a better option that wasn’t even on our radar.

And then, there's entrepreneurship—a realm where failure often precedes success, and knowledge often leads to the humbling realization of how much we have yet to learn. It's a constant dance of give and take, know and learn, fail and succeed.

Among our more pressing contradictions today is our need to disconnect to connect. I’d even go as far as saying that this contradiction is tied to our survival.

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