the power of the paradigm shift

The Power of theParadigm Shift

It’s an “aha moment”

• An epiphany

• An attitude shift

• A mind shift

• A wake-up call

• An eye-opening experience

The light bulb goes off and …

.. you have a breakthrough

Now I get it!

A Paradigm Shift

• With a paradigm shift, you suddenly see things differently.

• Stephen Covey’s presents an excellent example in his classic book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.

• A man who is traveling in a subway sees another man get on the subway with his two sons.

• The two boys are completely out of control - running all over the place and bothering other people.

• The behavior becomes so annoying that the man asks the father to “do something about your boys who are out of control”.

• The father replied, “We just got back in the hospital where their mother died. I don't know how to handle it and they don't either.”

• Suddenly the man saw things differently. That’s what a paradigm shift is.

• The kids did not change their hollering and screaming.

• But, the man suddenly looked at them in a different way.

Do you see an old woman or a young woman?

If you look at the picture one way, you see an old woman

If you look another way, you see a young woman. How

You interpret the picture depends upon your paradigm.

And your paradigm determines what you are going to

say about that picture.

It all depends upon how you look at things.

Our behavior is the result of the way we see the world.

The Power of theParadigm Shift

You may be wondering ….

When changing an undesired behavior or habit ….

… we work towards a “paradigm shift” …

… a change in a way that we perceive our behavior and our attitudes.

This is an essential step in transforming yourself from being a fat person to a skinny

person…

… from being an overly anxious person to a calm person…

.. from being a depressed, angry person to being accepting and loving individual.

Before you can change your behavior ….

… before you change your bad circumstances…

… you have to change the way you think about yourself and the world.

It is like strugglingup hill. Before you “get it”, maintaining

a new habit is hard work.

Before the paradigm shift --- like pushing a heavy ball up hill.

However, once you get to the top of the hill, it gets easy. It is fun and you coast.There is a sense of relief. Freedom. A feeling that things are going your way.

It many ways this is similar to a paradigm shift.

If you have any questions about reaching a paradigm sift, please give me a call. My name is Dr. Phil Gardner and my phone

number is 267-235-6934.

E mail – drphilgardner@gmail.com.

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