Why You Keep Getting the Same Results

The Mind Daily · Part 1 of How Your Mind Works It’s 8:12 on Monday morning. You sit down to work on the proposal you’ve been putting off. Before you open it, you check your inbox for one thing. There’s a message that takes two minutes to answer, then a calendar invite you need to move. By nine, you’ve been working for almost an hour and the proposal is still closed. You had a clear goal. You meant it. So why did the morning go the same way again? What Bob Proctor called a paradigm Bob Proctor used the word paradigm for a collection of habits and ingrained ideas that, in his view, shape what people do and the results they get. Your conscious goal can change over a weekend. The way you respond when you’re hurried, uncertain, or sitting in the same chair on Monday morning can be much slower to change. That tension is central to Proctor’s teaching. Proctor Gallagher Institute. In the case of the proposal, the familiar choice may serve a purpose.

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