The Paradoxical Commandments

It isn’t that I am too lazy to write today. It really isn’t. It started with a camera.

Last week I bought a really nice video camera for my new business. I don’t plan to use it for anything special. I have a business relationship with a highly talented and successful videographer that my clients who need professional video will be referred to. This is really to cover those businesses with a low budget who need a quick and inexpensive solution and whose clients can forgive production values that are less than stellar.

To learn how to use this camera I threw myself into a project creating a video for the Historic Commissions I’m on. Of course they don’t know I’m doing it – that will be our surprise.

In the process of editing video, creating interstitial clips, writing titles, laying in audio I realized that my computer HD can be eaten up pretty quickly.

Of course I have an external drive but there were only 4GB left on it. I’ve been spending a good portion of the morning cleaning it off so I can have some space to work with. Its a bit like cleaning the cellar, attic or garage. Its painful to throw away stuff that I am sure I will need sometime in the future. Even the software I backed up that dates back to Windows 98. . .

In the process I found this.
I have saved it for a long time. I’m sure it arrived in an email at one point. I know if I put this up on my blog and share it with you I can delete it from my hard drive. It will be put to far better use here. And I’ll see it more often myself.

The Paradoxical Commandments
by Kent M. Keith

1. People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway.
2. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Do good anyway.
3. If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway.
4. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
5. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.
6. The biggest people with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest people with the smallest ideas. Think big anyway.
7. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.
8. People really need help, but may attack you if you do help them. Help them anyway.
9. People favor underdogs, but follow only top dogs. Fight for a few underdogs anyway.
10. Give the world the best that you have and you’ll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you have anyway.