The Power of A Paradigm Shift {2}

Success is a complicated subject. it means positive and wonderful things. 

For jambites, it means gaining admission to their desired universities to study their dream course.
For teachers, it means having students who would always stand out.
But for the most part, we all know that every behaviour has a positive intent, so what we do is aimed at what we call 'success'.
Still under our paradigm shifting experience, let's re-calibrate or redefine our views about success.
Success is not just gaining admission. it is far beyond having excellent students.
Success is not really about wealth, fame or degrees.
True success is not tied to external things, that's why you should not label yourself based on external titles, association and things.
Success is not just the stupendous outward degree of excellence we see. True success starts from within. It is an inside-out thing.
It focuses on the improvement of the self. Instead of striving to get more done all the time, why not try to improve yourself?
Why not try to live more? Why not try to work more on your private life so your public life would match your core beliefs?
If you want an amazing 2018, you must start redefining what true success is now. *Consider what will matter most on your death bed.*
You might think you didn't really achieve as you should this year, but most times you think this way because you wanted to only get more.
For me, my inside out journey towards real success started when I eliminated the competition spirit.
Until then, I saw life as a battlefield where the mantra was *‘eat others or be eaten’* and life is a survival of the fittest.
But when I learnt that success is knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potentials and sowing seeds that benefits others, I changed almost immediately.

Spend some time today to ask yourself some real questions
Ask yourself, Will this matter in five years?
Am I really loving and living my life or am I merely striving to live for the society?
Am I really doing what I want to do
Spend some time today. In the end, you'd get that specific thing you should be doing, then you get up and run!

Uti Emmanuel 

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The Power of A Paradigm Shift

How did you feel when you notice that there's nothing like *‘Old school’* but *‘Old's cool?’*
How did you react the day you discovered that *'i.e'* doesn't mean *'that is'* but *'in essence'*?
Did you marvel at your knowledge when you read that it is not *‘ayamatanga’* but I am at anger?
If you didn't, I did. I was just surprised the day I discovered all of these but amazingly I changed my views immediately.  That is the power of a paradigm shift.
A paradigm (not paradigim) is a model, and a model is a representation of something.
For humans, our paradigm, model or map is what determines the reality we see or is a representation of reality
Hence, the map (our perception of reality) is not the territory (reality).
For instance, two people might see something an give a different report. But whatever report they give is based on how they see reality not reality itself. 
This explains why where we stand depends on where we sit.
You may have attended many seminars where you were told to ‘never give up. Work hard’ etc but if you fail to deal with the real problem, which often is how you see a problem, nothing would work.
For instance, no matter how you develop a positive attitude, given the wrong map, you'll only get to the wrong direction faster
You might not have achieved all of your goals because you have the wrong map about success but you can correct that map to make the best of next year.
Through the admission of ignorance which is the first step in our education, we can easily correct out maps by starting through an inside out approach.
We all need a new level of thinking to create the kind of life we want for ourselves. And such can only happen from inside out.
My point?
Change how you see things.
The power of a paradigm shift is the essential power of quantum change.
 change  how you see things, the things you see change, and success becomes easy to get.

Uti Emmanuel 

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