Experiencing The Paradigm Shifts

We would like to suggest two Paradigm Shifts that will greatly increase the value you will receive from this material.

First, We would recommend that you not “see” this material as simple lessons, in the sense that it is something to read once and put on a shelf.

You may choose to study it completely once for a sense of the whole. But the material is designed to be a companion in the continual process of change and growth. It is organized incrementally and at the end of each course you can study and focus on any particular area.

As you progress to deeper levels of understanding and implementation, you can go back time and again to the principles contained in each lesson and work to expand your knowledge, skill, and desire.

Second, We would suggest that you shift your paradigm of your own involvement in this material from the role of learner to that of teacher. Take an Inside-Out approach, and read with the purpose in mind of sharing or discussing what you learn with someone else within 48 hours after you learn it.

If you had known, for example, that you would be teaching the material on the P/PC Balance principle to someone else within 48 hours, would it have made a difference in your reading experience? Try it now as you read the final section in this lesson. Read as though you are going to teach it to your spouse, your child, a business associate, or a friend today or tomorrow, while it is still fresh, and notice the difference in your mental and emotional process.

I guarantee that if you approach the material in each of the following lessons in this way, you will not only better remember what you read, but your perspective will be expanded, your understanding deepened, and your motivation to apply the material increased.

In addition, as you openly, honestly share what you’re learning with others, you may be surprised to find that negative labels or perceptions others may have of you tend to disappear. Those you teach will see you as a changing, growing person, and will be more inclined to be helpful and supportive as you work, perhaps together, to integrate these lessons on ultrapreneurship into your lives.

What You Can Expect

In the last analysis, as Marilyn Ferguson observed, “No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or by emotional appeal.

If you decide to open your “gate of change” to really understand and live the principles embodied in these lessons, I feel comfortable in assuring you several positive things will happen.

First, your growth will be evolutionary, but the net effect will be revolutionary. Would you not agree that the P/PC Balance principle alone, if fully lived, would transform most individuals and organizations?

The net effect of opening the “gate of change” to the first three lessons– the lesson on Private Victory.

— will significantly increase self-confidence. You will come to know yourself in a deeper, more meaningful way — your nature, your deepest values and your unique contribution capacity. As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people’s opinions or by comparisons to others. “Wrong” and “right” will have little to do with being found out.

Ironically, you’ll find that as you care less about what others think of you; you will care more about what others think of themselves and their worlds, including their relationship with you. You’ll no longer build your emotional life on other people’s weaknesses. In addition, you’ll find it easier and more desirable to change because there is something — some core deep within — that is essentially changeless.

As you open yourself to the next four courses, you will discover and unleash both the desire and the resources to heal and rebuild important relationships that have deteriorated, or even broken.

It’s obviously not a quick fix. But We assure you, you will feel benefits and see immediate payoffs that will be encouraging. In the words of Thomas Paine, “That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly. It is dearness only which gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price on its goods.”