PARADIGM SHIFT

As I was choosing the art for this blog I was reminded of a situation that I want to share with you.

I was apart of a very emotional gathering that made me wish I had eyes in the back of my head.

When grief is met with alcohol and other coping stimulants things get out of hand faster than a blink of an eye.

This particular circumstance was without no exception and as a fist fight broke out, 50 or more people began running toward the action.

As they were all running in one direction I was literally the only person going in the opposite.

It felt like a scene from a movie and it was a perfect depiction of my life at that time.

Going against what the majority are doing is somewhat rare and most of the time extremely difficult.

Choosing to no longer drink alcohol in a society that almost every festivity is centered by is a small example.

Just the other day somebody said to me "it's been almost six years since you drank don't you think that's long enough?!"

If I were trying to establish discipline the answer would hands down be yes. In fact, a habit can be established in as little as 30 days.

Side note: one of my favorite quotes is "a habit is too light to be felt until it's too heavy to be broken."

Think on that one for a bit!!

What is the difference between going against the norm verses a paradigm shift?

The core meaning of paradigm shift is a deep change in assumptions, not just behavior.

I changed my behavior in the above example but only if I were to change my stance on the subject of drinking alcohol would it fall under the definition of paradigm shift.

I hope that gave you enough elaboration in order for you understand.

A belief is a thought that you continuously think. Once a thought becomes a belief it is then hard-wired into your brain.

The important thing to realize is that once it becomes hard-wired it is nearly impossible to rewrite that belief - unless you have a paradigm shift.

If you were raised in an environment in which struggle was dominant, it is likely that as you move through life, you will have a belief that things won't happen easily for you.

That was "hard-wired" into your mindset and the only way to change this is by changing your belief surrounding struggle.

As I said earlier, a habit can be established in some instances less than a month. However, if you hold a thought for as little as 17 seconds, another thought like it will join.

Imagine the thought being a magnet and all of the other thoughts like it are off in the distance. Once you activate the "magnet" by focusing your attention on it, the other thoughts have no choice but to be drawn to it.

This law goes in both directions. It is no "respecter of trajectory."

If you hold a negative thought for said time, others like it will join. If you hold a positive, productive, hopeful thought, others like it will join.

And once you keep thinking a thought, it becomes a belief.

Herein lies the paradigm shift - "Things come easily to me. Doors of opportunity always open for me. If luck is real, I am one of the luckiest. God always blesses the work of my hands. My little effort is met with a big payoff."

I will end by saying this key factor.

Most people believe that change takes days, weeks, months and even sometimes years but the truth is that change can happen the moment you make the decision.

It is almost simultaneously at the instant you decide.

Rewiring is so that your actions follow suit.

YOU ARE DESIGNED TO REIGN IN LIFE

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