Paradigm: A paradigm is your perspective on life. They are the glasses you see something, your point of view, frame of reference, or belief. That lens affects how you see everything else. Paradigms can often be inaccurate or incomplete and as a result often create limitations.
Paradigms of Self: Are your paradigms of yourself helping or hindering you? A negative self-paradigm can limit you and a positive self-paradigm can bring out the best in you. Successful people have had a person believe in them.
Paradigm of Others: Seeing things from a different point of view can help us understand why other people act the way they do and can make a difference in our attitude toward others. We often judge people without all the facts.
Therefore we shouldn’t be so quick to judge, label or form rigid opinions of others, or ourselves, for that matter. From our limited points of view, we seldom see the whole picture, or have all the facts. If we want to make changes in our lives, the key is to change our paradigms, or the glasses though which we see the world. Change the lens and everything else follows. If you’ll look closely, you’ll find that most of your problems are the result of a messed-up paradigm or two.
Paradigm’s of Life: Whatever is most important to you will become your paradigm, your glasses, or as I like to call it, your life center.
Principle Centered Life
There are principles that rule the physical world; there are principles that rule the human rule. They apply to all people at all times in all culture in all true religion. Just as a compass always points to true north, your heart will recognize true principles.
Hard Work is a principle: You can’t fake playing golf, tuning a guitar, or speaking Arabic if you haven’t paid the price to get good. There’s no short cut. NBA star Larry Bird said “ If you don’t do your homework, your won’t make your free throws.”
Breaking Principles always catches up to you. Cecil B. DeMille observed about the 10 Commandments. It is impossible for us to break the law. You can only break yourself against it.
Principles never fail: To grasp why principles always work, just imagine life based on their opposites. Putting principles first is the key to doing better in all the other centers. In whatever situation ask yourself what is the principle in play here?
