Nido R. Qubein, President of High Point University is a master of the language that cuts through complexity to clarity. To help us focus he uses word pairing to teach. The difference between training and education for example. Or the difference between success and significance, fortune or fame.
What for you might be two words that have special meaning? Surviving or thriving? Work or career? Managing or leading? Self or other? Funeral or Celebration of this life well lived?
One of my favorites comes from Dr. Rudolf Dreikurs (1897-1972) the famous Chicago psychiatrist. “I listen to the tongue in the shoe not the tongue in the mouth. Feet only point in one direction; words can go anywhere!”
The best word pairings come not from Nido or Dr. Drekurs or from me…but from your own thoughts sometimes leading up to action.