June 20, 2007 at 8:11 am (Change management, Coaching, Mentoring, Paradigms)
As someone that has a passion to develop people to the optimum of their potential, I have recently run into some kind of tough challenge. Now, for me there is not really such a thing as a problem. There might be challenges and difficult ones at that, but problems, no, not really. You see, it all depends on how you choose to define what happens around you.
Your definition of anything, yourself, your relationships, what life throws at you, your roles as a leader, mother or father, other people’s attitude and behaviour toward you, etc. depend on you – your definition. A business man’s choice of defining himself as a business man determines basically everything he will allow. So it goes for the teacher, the preacher and the prostitute. Depending on your definition of yourself you will experience your world. You allow and experience most things in your life based on your definition of YOU…
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May 30, 2007 at 9:59 pm (Paradigms)
Let me tell you a story that might encourage you to understand that your paradigm determines what you see, irrespective of what you look at.
Two (separate) American shoe manufacturing companies send their top marketing specialists to investigate the market for shoes in Africa. After two weeks both of them reported back to their respective head offices.
The one’s reply read: “Don’t bother to exploit this market, no one in Africa wears shoes.” The other one’s reply read: “You won’t believe what I have found. The most unexplored market in the world. No one here wears shoes yet.
A wise man once said, “Your context gives you the picture to look at. Your paradigm determines what you see.”
No one lives in a vacuum, unaffected by a (certain) context. We all are bound by a certain context where we live, work and play. No two peoples’ contexts are alike, even if they are alike, their paradigms will differ and that will cause them to see their ’similar’ contexts in a different way.
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