Here’s how to upgrade your paradigms for a better life

Putting ourselves in perspective – What about updating your operating system? Do you update your habits, paradigms, and beliefs with changing times?

How often have you ignored the update notifications you receive from life – your report card, financial statement, medical reports, or other results?

Are you content with the results you obtain across your experiences in life – when creating wealth or in health, relationships, business, and overall happiness?

Your results reflect your current operating system, also known as Paradigm. Used to describe a mass of information programmed into an individual’s subconscious mind, genetically at the moment of conception and then environmentally through life, the paradigm is expressed in behavioral patterns producing the results a person gets in life.

Paradigms, simply put, are nothing but an accumulation of habits that have almost exclusive control over our habitual behavior, and nearly all of our behavior is habitual. They are the software governing the hardware, i.e., your body.

Since most people do not grasp the intensity of this, around 90% of people don’t understand that they are stuck in a paradigm and thus obtain the same results year after year. This is as true for students in school as it is for people in business. When the system is stagnant, any improvement is incidental and hence temporary.

Most of us are confronted with the same challenge every day. We are stuck doing things we don’t want to do, getting results we don’t want to get, and strangely, we continue to do them anyway.

Some real-life examples of stagnant paradigms you’ll find are:

1. People who are grossly overweight want to lose weight yet continually eat food that packs on more pounds.
2. Smokers who talk about quitting every day, yet they can’t help lighting up another cigarette.
3. Salespeople who complain that they have difficulty selling ignore the patented sales techniques that all the top professionals follow.
4. Managers criticizing someone in front
   of their peers, despite knowing it’s non-productive and only aggravates the existing problem.

All of the above are common examples of the ‘knowing-doing’ gap.

In all the above situations, the person knows the consequences of their actions and even knows the better route they should take or the changes they should make. Then why do their actions remain the same? Because their paradigms control them.

Paradigms are extremely powerful.

They tend to talk you out of doing the very thing that you decide to do or the habit you desperately wish to inculcate. Understanding and changing your paradigms will prove to be a turning point in life for you.