Summary

Successful people often hunger for more – personal congruency and effectiveness that are necessary for healthy relationships. Success can be accompanied with losses in personal relationships. It’s difficult to stay committed to personal goals. Marriages can fail and business relationships can falter.

To achieve success on a primary level, we must first understand our paradigms and how to make a paradigm shift. A paradigm is like a map. We all have two fundamental maps in our heads: the way we think things are and the way we would like them to be. Our behaviors and attitudes emanate from the assumptions we make. Trying to change is impossible without examining these paradigms. Every person thinks he or she is objective but that is rarely the case. By exploring our paradigms we can be far more objective. We can make superficial changes but if we...