Daily Dose of Inspiration

“Stubborn problems always require a shift in paradigm.”

~ Chris Prentiss, Zen and the Art of Happiness

So exactly what is a paradigm? Well, my friend, it’s your pattern of thoughts, beliefs and habits that control your behavior, actions, and life.

Do you like the results you’re experiencing — life as you know it? If not, you have a paradigm to shift. That may seem a little easier than it is. You see, the problem is that your paradigm essentially has a life of its own. It’s played a role in your life, oftentimes for a very long time. And the longer it’s been operating as such the more entrenched it becomes. And the more entrenched it becomes the more stubborn it becomes.

So how do you shift it? You start asking yourself new questions. You start pondering the results you do want, seeing yourself living that life, and asking yourself why it was so easy to create the shift. You have to trick the paradigm, my friend, into doing what you want it to do.

Oh, it’s capable of it, trust me. It’s a superpower capable of anything. But you have to get past the gatekeeper to re-program your paradigm’s behavior. Once you’ve done that, my friend, the world is your oyster!