Behavioral Paradigms All rights reserved. PLANiT OrganiZer The final group of paradigms I want to teach you in this module can have the greatest impact on your time control. These are behavioral paradigms. Unlike visual and aural paradigms that are triggered by things you see and hear, behavioral paradigms are launched by events and circumstances. They are again the fusion of our focus and our attitudes. Together they create an interpretation of the events in our environment, and our behaviors follow suit.
Every habit you have, both positive and negative, is a behavioral paradigm. If you are hooked on smoking, the biggest hurdle you have to overcome isn’t your body’s addiction to nicotine but your behavioral paradigm associated with it. If you were to stop smoking this very second, research shows that your body would purge your physical addiction to nicotine in just 72 hours. After that, the battle is completely mental where you must shatter your behavioral paradigm that smoking is something you must do to remain calm and relaxed. Your focus on your nerves and stress without smoking and your attitude towards the calming effect that cigarettes have on your body create your true habit of smoking – not the nicotine.
To ever quit smoking you must purge your body of nicotine for a hard fought 72 hours and then face your true challenge of shattering your negative behavioral paradigm. Both my parents did this instantly. They had both smoked for 20 years. One day my father passed out in our bathroom due to his cigarettes. When he came to both he and my mother instantly shifted their paradigm towards cigarettes and saw them as deadly rather than calming. Their new paradigm got them past their initial nicotine purge and has kept them away from the deadly habit for over 30 years.
Other similar negative behavioral paradigms include caffeine, alcohol and drugs. Like breaking the bonds of nicotine, caffeine, alcohol and other drugs all have a certain purging period of true physical addiction. But this period is again much shorter than most people think, usually on a scale of only a few days. The true monsters are the behavioral paradigms associated with these habits. Shifting your focus and attitude, your paradigms, toward these addictive substances is the only way to truly break free. Knowing this doesn’t mean that shifting your paradigms is going to be easy. Depending on your particular situation, your mental paradigms may be much stronger than others facing a similar battle. But knowing this does open your eyes to the true enemy – an enemy you can gain control over if you generate enough motivation.
Some of our negative paradigms or habits are purely mental. Overeating and gambling are two examples of purely behavioral paradigm addictions. Both require no purging period for our bodies to cleanse a harmful substance, yet both can be equally devastating as smoking or drugs in our lives. Again, the true challenge is shifting our focus and attitude toward our addiction. Until these are shifted, our paradigm will continue to wreck our lives.
Besides influencing our habits, behavioral paradigms can also leave a strong mark on our culture and society. Based on our focus and attitude toward others around us, our behavioral paradigms can help us live in peace and equality with others or they can build the destructive barriers of racism and bigotry. This is evidenced throughout history with some of the greatest negative cultural behavioral paradigms being slavery and racism in America and the Holocaust against Jews in Hitler’s Germany. Even today, having a mental framework against somebody because of their skin color or culture, their sex, or their sexual orientation is a result of our behavioral paradigms. The only way to grow past these cultural black eyes is to shift the focus and attitude, shift the paradigms of those who harbor them.
Behavioral paradigms also have a HUGE influence on our success and our time control. If our focus is on the obstacles in our life and our attitude further weakens us through a "poor-me" mindset, then our behavioral paradigms will be self-defeating and ensure we never reach our dreams. Our paradigms will create low self-esteem and self-confidence to ever take action to change our situation. But the opposite is wonderfully true as well! If we focus on the opportunities in our life and boost that with positive, action-centered attitudes then we are almost assured of reaching our Clarity and goals. Our paradigms will strengthen our confidence and increase the positive motivation we generate to take success-building action. Now that’s the true power of behavioral paradigms!
My entire Time Control program to date has centered on building positive behavioral paradigms to constantly increase your time control. How much have I taught you has helped you shape and strengthen your focus? How many tools have built your attitude towards uncovering opportunities and taking positive action? Every module you’ve worked through from creating your Clarity to increasing your motivation to defeating stress and procrastination to even last month of increasing your wealth, every single one of them, has added another tool or dimension to increasing the positive, time-building behavioral paradigms in your life. My entire Success-Centered Time Management philosophy is built on this premise!
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