We often find ourselves in paradoxes, which we can’t resolve. Nor, should we.

One important paradox is striving to be the top in your domain, but realizing statistical probabilities almost always suggest that being the top is either fleeting or unrealistic.

But, to become the top, you have to dream it.

Balancing the dream of being the top, and coming to terms with reality that you’re not is one of the hardest things that you have to deal with in life.

Understand that performance and productivity is often outside of your control, yet we have to continually strive towards long-term productivity and performance.

We often have to balance the dream of success, with the reality of contentment.

My only solution to balance this is to simply say the boyscout motto “do your best.”