It occurred to me that everyone is consistent even if it’s in their inconsistency.

As I have stated before, I worship at the altar of consistency but I have recently discovered that I am biased to the brand of consistency I adore.

The brand that gets me to dress up for church is the one where I can count on something or someone to produce consistent results that I like. If you are consistently producing things I don’t like, I call that inconsistent – a newly discovered shortcoming on my part.

I loved that basketball star, Michael Jordan could produce 30 plus points on a consistent basis; I didn’t like that tennis great, Jimmy Connors consistently hit his forehand into the net on long back and forth exchanges.

So my discovery is that I truly don’t like consistency; I just like my brand of it.

This led to a bigger discovery for me and perhaps you – that we really don’t like the truth, just our version of it.

I like to define truth as that which has no opposite. Genuine truth is self evident and is not debatable. The minute that you can muster an argument against your truth, it’s not the truth. It’s a conditioned opinion that you bow down to – a false god, if you will.

If you are consistently spouting the truth, you are inconsistently hitting the mark, because it’s only your brand of the truth that you speak. Your brand excludes all the other brands. The whole truth is everyone’s brand mixed together, not splotches of the mix you happen to like.

Be careful when you are speaking the truth because you’ll be consistently inconsistent. Once in a blue moon it’ll be solid truth, but most often it will be scattered, prejudiced blather.

I believe it’s in our best interest to label our truth for what it actually is – an opinion that we’ve come to like. When we label what we are offering as our opinion, we can consistently be genuine without the inconsistency of claiming to know the truth.

It’s my opinion that you will communicate more effectively with opinion than you will with the truth, and you’ll do it more consistently.

All the best,

John