RICH LIFE: Seeing MORE Opportunity and MORE Possibilities--What's YOUR PARADIGM?
I Had Never Heard of the Word Until I Read The 7 Habits. And UNDERSTANDING What it Really Means Opens up a Whole New World...
PARADIGM.
I had never heard the word before I read The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.
But when I began to understand what Dr. Covey was writing about, it was a BREAKTHROUGH lesson for me, in my LIFE and in my WORK. It’s really about SEEING things and THINKING or RE-THINKING in a much BIGGER WAY.
If you look up the definition of that word (and I did) it’s pretty short and simple.
“A typical example or pattern of something; a model. Normal or accepted ways of doing something.”
Originally a scientific term, your PARADIGM is YOUR PERSPECTIVE.
It’s HOW we have been taught or programmed to SEE THINGS from our own perspective. Which can make it difficult to SEE OTHER THINGS or possibilities or opportunities when we’re looking at it in our own LIMITING way.
When we think about Habit 2, Beginning with The End in Mind, we can gain a better understanding of PARADIGM and how it works for each individual.
Begin With the End in Mind is based on INDIVIDUAL imagination—the ability to envision in your mind (AND believe in your heart) what you cannot at present see with your eyes.
It is based on the principle that all things are created twice. There is a mental (first) creation, and a physical (second) creation.
I had heard about GOAL SETTING since I was a young salesman, but for decades I HAD NEVER HEARD the word PARADIGM— or anyone put it as simply as Dr. Covey, when he told us to BEGIN WITH THE END IN MIND!
Seeing in your mind’s eye your STRONG FINISH, achieving a GOAL, arriving at a DESTINATION, etc.
Conversely, that same PARADIGM effect is why so many CANNOT SEE what you see or what you want them to see.
In many ways it’s overcoming how and what we’ve been “programmed” to see or feel or think. Breaking through some of those self-limiting PARADIGMS can become a BREAKTHROUGH indeed and bring about a greater UNDERSTANDING of so many things…including,