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Change Your Paradigm, Change Your Life
When you're doing something that's out of the ordinary, your mental programing, your paradigm, will try and stop you. If you want to win, you must keep going. Your paradigms may be masked in complacency, fear, worry, anxiety, insecurities, self-doubt, mental hurry and self-loathing―the result is keeping you STUCK....locked in a box and starved of your dreams and ambitions.
To change your life―you MUST change your paradigm. The change is not easy, but it's worth it, and the results are lasting. Bob Proctor will show you his proven methods for doing so. This book will synthesize his decades of study, application, and teaching
Bob will break through the myth many people have about success―that long hours and hard work are sufficient to achieve lasting success. Because without changing your paradigm, no amount of hard work and long work hours will make a measurable, lasting difference in your success.
Once you go through Bob Proctor's Paradigm Shift Process, you will expose yourself to a brand new world of power, possibility and promise.
To change your life―you MUST change your paradigm. The change is not easy, but it's worth it, and the results are lasting. Bob Proctor will show you his proven methods for doing so. This book will synthesize his decades of study, application, and teaching
Bob will break through the myth many people have about success―that long hours and hard work are sufficient to achieve lasting success. Because without changing your paradigm, no amount of hard work and long work hours will make a measurable, lasting difference in your success.
Once you go through Bob Proctor's Paradigm Shift Process, you will expose yourself to a brand new world of power, possibility and promise.
154 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 2021
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August 15, 2023
Actually enjoyed this book.
What I learnt:
1) It’s the repetition that creates awareness
2) I have to keep evaluating my beliefs
3) I can’t just change my thoughts I have to internalize my thoughts
4) I can’t attract what I’m not in harmony to
5) I become what I think about and internalize
6) Understand the law governing money
7) Choose your mentors
8) Don’t hang around complainers
9) Don’t mix with people that don’t believe in big goals
10) If you hold a picture of poverty you won’t be rich
11) Our wants comes from the essence of who we are. Wanting is not to get but to grow.
What I learnt:
1) It’s the repetition that creates awareness
2) I have to keep evaluating my beliefs
3) I can’t just change my thoughts I have to internalize my thoughts
4) I can’t attract what I’m not in harmony to
5) I become what I think about and internalize
6) Understand the law governing money
7) Choose your mentors
8) Don’t hang around complainers
9) Don’t mix with people that don’t believe in big goals
10) If you hold a picture of poverty you won’t be rich
11) Our wants comes from the essence of who we are. Wanting is not to get but to grow.
July 23, 2023
2.5/5
ABOLISH THE SELF-HELP INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX.
As expected, trite cliches of ideas that are supposed to subvert aphorisms but really reveal nothing interesting themselves. Things like "people will tell you knowledge is power but that's not true, the application of knowledge is power". In the self help tradition, it is filled with insufferable suggestions strung together by a confusing blend of Christian orthodoxy and woo-woo poetics of "vibrations" and "energies".
Needless to say I did not like it or feel like I gleaned anything important from it but kudos to anybody that does feel like they got something out of it I guess
ABOLISH THE SELF-HELP INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX.
As expected, trite cliches of ideas that are supposed to subvert aphorisms but really reveal nothing interesting themselves. Things like "people will tell you knowledge is power but that's not true, the application of knowledge is power". In the self help tradition, it is filled with insufferable suggestions strung together by a confusing blend of Christian orthodoxy and woo-woo poetics of "vibrations" and "energies".
Needless to say I did not like it or feel like I gleaned anything important from it but kudos to anybody that does feel like they got something out of it I guess
January 29, 2022
‘Change Your Paradigm Change Your Life’ is an interview style book between interviewer Dan Strutzel, and interviewee Bob Proctor, a high-school dropout turned millionaire who is also a motivational speaker and author of bestselling books.
Proctor explains the importance of understanding our mental programming, our paradigm, and changing it in order to be successful in life. He describes how to identify your paradigm, change your paradigm and explains how this will affect your success in life.
The interview-style makes the book conversational but also very long-winded. It’s hard to piece together the holistic picture, how all the ideas fit together, as they jump from idea to idea then back to idea throughout the whole book
Also, a note to any future readers, some of this book is based on the law of attraction and belief in God.
Regardless, there are little golden nuggets of wisdom scattered throughout between the redundancy, as in the key takeaways are VERY beneficial and insightful. But the book could easily have been cut down to 1/5 of its length.
Proctor explains the importance of understanding our mental programming, our paradigm, and changing it in order to be successful in life. He describes how to identify your paradigm, change your paradigm and explains how this will affect your success in life.
The interview-style makes the book conversational but also very long-winded. It’s hard to piece together the holistic picture, how all the ideas fit together, as they jump from idea to idea then back to idea throughout the whole book
Also, a note to any future readers, some of this book is based on the law of attraction and belief in God.
Regardless, there are little golden nuggets of wisdom scattered throughout between the redundancy, as in the key takeaways are VERY beneficial and insightful. But the book could easily have been cut down to 1/5 of its length.
February 28, 2024
I listened to this self-help book because someone highly recommended it. It’s like every other self help book I’ve ever read, regurgitated, except instead of saying the word “habits” he says the word “paradigm” and that makes it new and revolutionary?!?! Seriously, Don’t waste your time.
May 13, 2022
Yo paso en batalla constante! Me gusta mucho el tema! De como podemos cambiar nuestra vida cambiando nuestra mente! Es de leerlo todos los años!
December 20, 2023
Firstly, this is a podcast of an interview mislabeled as an audiobook and the author gets so animated in answering questions he’s frequently almost shouting while trying to relay the message. See: Old Man Yells at Cloud.
The message of this “book” is often contradictory to itself and contains several suggestions which seem impractical as universal applications to life. There are, however, many points I agree with. Primarily, shifting one’s paradigm to define success; it may not be money or status based but focused on what brings you purpose and happiness (although, that is contradictory to other statements, found elsewhere in the book about how easy it should be to select goals and focus efforts towards earning lots of money).
Additionally, I agree with the understanding that no growth can occur without challenge/difficulty and acknowledging the difference between the simple gathering of knowledge and the application of that knowledge into wisdom through action (eg getting a degree and doing nothing with it or reading a lot but never rereading or reflecting on the lessons). It introduces interesting concepts on how our internal cybernetics can hinder progress and the idea that our mental paradigms were mostly projected onto us through generations of people who also didn’t have their lives perfectly figured out.
However, there is enough impractical or irrational theory which keeps this from being great. The repeated references to the debunked pseudoscience of “the Secret” film in which he stars, whose plot is basically “if you think it it will come” detract from a lot of the value in other legitimate points. The claim that we are all just vibrating particles and mental good vibes manifest physical good vibes is ridiculous.
Additionally, the irony is glaring where he claims outside world affairs don’t effect him and he doesn’t think about things like COVID, then later dying potentially from COVID complications (unconfirmed and he was 87 anyway; still, it all serves to discredit the notion).
The message of this “book” is often contradictory to itself and contains several suggestions which seem impractical as universal applications to life. There are, however, many points I agree with. Primarily, shifting one’s paradigm to define success; it may not be money or status based but focused on what brings you purpose and happiness (although, that is contradictory to other statements, found elsewhere in the book about how easy it should be to select goals and focus efforts towards earning lots of money).
Additionally, I agree with the understanding that no growth can occur without challenge/difficulty and acknowledging the difference between the simple gathering of knowledge and the application of that knowledge into wisdom through action (eg getting a degree and doing nothing with it or reading a lot but never rereading or reflecting on the lessons). It introduces interesting concepts on how our internal cybernetics can hinder progress and the idea that our mental paradigms were mostly projected onto us through generations of people who also didn’t have their lives perfectly figured out.
However, there is enough impractical or irrational theory which keeps this from being great. The repeated references to the debunked pseudoscience of “the Secret” film in which he stars, whose plot is basically “if you think it it will come” detract from a lot of the value in other legitimate points. The claim that we are all just vibrating particles and mental good vibes manifest physical good vibes is ridiculous.
Additionally, the irony is glaring where he claims outside world affairs don’t effect him and he doesn’t think about things like COVID, then later dying potentially from COVID complications (unconfirmed and he was 87 anyway; still, it all serves to discredit the notion).
December 17, 2022
Write down the things that you want to achieve in the present tense.
Every session in this book provides valuable insight that changes my mind.
Love this!
Every session in this book provides valuable insight that changes my mind.
Love this!
December 6, 2023
I am beginning a market study of the up-to-this-point-bane-of-my-existence: the self help book. What makes a self-help book work? Who writes them? Who buys them? Is there a difference between self help and personal development? What makes a good one? And do they actually help people as they profess to? Does what they suggest actually work? What do they agree and disagree on? What are the different varieties, flavors, attitudes, tones, structures, and perceived outcomes? I’d like to understand patterns for success in as well as of these books, looking at common themes and trends. And I hope to come away with some good ones that I would recommend to others.
If you’ve got a favorite, drop it in the comments below. I am using the bibliographies and suggested readings of these self help books as my main guide.
As for this particular book: as much as I don’t love listening to old, rich, white guys talk about how you can also become rich by being just like them, I did appreciate the central messages of gratitude, of every person’s internal, infinite worth and potential, and about finding your purpose comes from understanding and analyzing who you are, your gifts, and what you want.
If you’ve got a favorite, drop it in the comments below. I am using the bibliographies and suggested readings of these self help books as my main guide.
As for this particular book: as much as I don’t love listening to old, rich, white guys talk about how you can also become rich by being just like them, I did appreciate the central messages of gratitude, of every person’s internal, infinite worth and potential, and about finding your purpose comes from understanding and analyzing who you are, your gifts, and what you want.
March 31, 2022
Great read.
Great read concepts require great thought and awareness to be able to apply to your life.
I agree that rereading this daily will help you grow and expand your awareness and improve your life.
It's not a step by step guide and yet filled with tons of take aways.
Highly recommend.
Great read concepts require great thought and awareness to be able to apply to your life.
I agree that rereading this daily will help you grow and expand your awareness and improve your life.
It's not a step by step guide and yet filled with tons of take aways.
Highly recommend.
February 25, 2024
It's ok. I agree with other reviewers in that there are few useful "how-to" nuggets. I was first introduced to paradigms in the early 1990s as a 30 year old via a consultant my employer hired who presented Mr Proctor's video on paradigms to us. It changed my thinking completely to view challenges and situations through new personal filters. I've talked about paradigms ad nauseum for 30 years. I saw this book on Audible and immediately got it. Perhaps I overexpected because I was disappointed.
July 24, 2024
I always love Bob Proctor; he was such a gift to the world and an inspiration for anyone breathing! I have read this book many times and listening was a good refresher and listening was wonderful to hear his voice again.
If you have a dream...this book will lift you up-whether you are prepared with a plan or not prepared at all...perhaps especially if you are NOT prepared! He is proof that everyone doesn't need a college degree to be successful...heck...he didn't even have a high school diploma (though I don't recall if he ever got his GED...he didn't need it!) And please don't confuse 'not having a degree' with 'not being educated'. Bob was a voracious student!
If you have a dream...this book will lift you up-whether you are prepared with a plan or not prepared at all...perhaps especially if you are NOT prepared! He is proof that everyone doesn't need a college degree to be successful...heck...he didn't even have a high school diploma (though I don't recall if he ever got his GED...he didn't need it!) And please don't confuse 'not having a degree' with 'not being educated'. Bob was a voracious student!
March 30, 2024
Interesting ideas but terrible copy editing. I wanted a red pencil. Short read with some good ideas.
October 14, 2024
“Make a decision, not a preference.”
Do I agree with everything said in this book? No. But it was such a motivational and logical book. Really enjoyed it.
4.7/5 ⭐️
Do I agree with everything said in this book? No. But it was such a motivational and logical book. Really enjoyed it.
4.7/5 ⭐️
October 23, 2024
4.5⭐️ I enjoyed this, I think it takes the idea of the law of attraction and makes it applicable by discussing how you can intellectualize what you want, but if you’re subconscious is not on the same page, you need to do that first.
This was more of a podcast than a book I would say.
This one provided so much guidance and actionable steps, I will definitely be reading over and over again.
This was more of a podcast than a book I would say.
This one provided so much guidance and actionable steps, I will definitely be reading over and over again.
November 28, 2024
Quick read with a ton of time-tested ideas to improve your life and get you out of a slump. Looking forward to where this takes me!
November 30, 2021
Well organised and it is in line with most self help
Where if you change your belief of who you are and are able to integrate it subconsciously that you will find you can easily achieve anything that you want to achieve. The good this is that the subconscious can only deduce.
You need to raise your vibration and act as if. You have to raise your vibrations and act like the person who has it (you have to BE it) you have to LIVE on the frequency
Record power life script. How you want to live your life in present tense. Describe everything. Talk like it act like it.
This will require a lot of self discipline
It is comforting to know that If you have the desire, you will have the ability to do it
“To learn you need a certain degree of confidence. Confidence comes from knowledge. Eg: I am confident I can brush my teeth and walk. You have a lot of confidence in many things already. You should only be concerned in what you think because that will create your life, what other people think really doesn’t matter”
Are we choosing my own path? Yes, success is the progressive realisation of a worthy ideal (idea that you have fallen in love with)
What you want in life and success is discovered and can constantly change
I love this:
Write problem clearly on a paper
And ask: how would____ look at this? (Get into other people energy)
Summary: shift paradigms > change life habits easily > achieve results (your own defined success)
Where if you change your belief of who you are and are able to integrate it subconsciously that you will find you can easily achieve anything that you want to achieve. The good this is that the subconscious can only deduce.
You need to raise your vibration and act as if. You have to raise your vibrations and act like the person who has it (you have to BE it) you have to LIVE on the frequency
Record power life script. How you want to live your life in present tense. Describe everything. Talk like it act like it.
This will require a lot of self discipline
It is comforting to know that If you have the desire, you will have the ability to do it
“To learn you need a certain degree of confidence. Confidence comes from knowledge. Eg: I am confident I can brush my teeth and walk. You have a lot of confidence in many things already. You should only be concerned in what you think because that will create your life, what other people think really doesn’t matter”
Are we choosing my own path? Yes, success is the progressive realisation of a worthy ideal (idea that you have fallen in love with)
What you want in life and success is discovered and can constantly change
I love this:
Write problem clearly on a paper
And ask: how would____ look at this? (Get into other people energy)
Summary: shift paradigms > change life habits easily > achieve results (your own defined success)
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
March 8, 2022
perfect book
Very encouraging and powerful book to read Bob is truly expressing his energy in one of his last books written God bless him for all the good that he had given, the way to express your self
Very encouraging and powerful book to read Bob is truly expressing his energy in one of his last books written God bless him for all the good that he had given, the way to express your self
August 22, 2021
Amazing book.
Great book, I love very bit of each chapters. Great book for anyone that want to change something in their life.
Great book, I love very bit of each chapters. Great book for anyone that want to change something in their life.
March 21, 2022
I can’t recommend it enough!
Full of ideas, tips and advices and easy to read and digest♥️
Full of ideas, tips and advices and easy to read and digest♥️
December 4, 2023
Let’s take a hotel as an example. When you take the people out of the hotel, you don’t have a hotel anymore; you have a building full of stuff. The hotel is people. If we want to build a business, we’ve got to build the people.
We have to start by understanding that there’s only one part of the universe that we can change, and that is ourselves. We can change nothing else. We can’t change the conditions or circumstances around us. We have to adapt to what’s going on and keep going, but we also have to understand
that we’re bigger than the external situations that we’re facing. I really don’t give those things a lot of time, because they pass, and something else will come. There’s always something outside that will control us if we let it. I don’t choose to let it. I’m in control of me.
The polar opposite of ignorance is knowledge. That’s the positive path. The knowledge is here and the only way to get to it is to study, but you have to know what to study. The libraries are full of knowledge, but knowledge in itself is not power. If it were, all the librarians would be multimillionaires. Most of them have nothing; they’re broke. The knowledge has to be organized and intelligently directed.
We have to start by understanding that there’s only one part of the universe that we can change, and that is ourselves. We can change nothing else. We can’t change the conditions or circumstances around us. We have to adapt to what’s going on and keep going, but we also have to understand
that we’re bigger than the external situations that we’re facing. I really don’t give those things a lot of time, because they pass, and something else will come. There’s always something outside that will control us if we let it. I don’t choose to let it. I’m in control of me.
The polar opposite of ignorance is knowledge. That’s the positive path. The knowledge is here and the only way to get to it is to study, but you have to know what to study. The libraries are full of knowledge, but knowledge in itself is not power. If it were, all the librarians would be multimillionaires. Most of them have nothing; they’re broke. The knowledge has to be organized and intelligently directed.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
July 25, 2024
PROS: I love Bob Proctor’s passion and enthusiasm for learning how to be better…his message is loud and clear - REPETITION is essential for shifting our paradigms. I will never feel guilty for reading an amazing book 10x or more - re this is an essential ingredient of success. Bob may not have been aware of the neuroscience that backs what he says here - how repetition helps to grow and strengthen neural networks. He just did this on his own and got great results.
CONS: I regret that Bob is no longer on this mortal coil….i feel sad I did not meet him in person. I missed out on meeting a master of transformation and mindset enhancements. 🥲
“Create or disintegrate!”
“We live in an ocean of motion.”
Praxis = the integration of belief with behavior
🟪🟪Problem solving formula:
1. List 10 things I’m grateful for
2. Send love to 3 people who annoy/bother me
3. Sit quietly for 5 minutes
4. Ask for guidance for the day.
Check out MSI CONNECT (mulptiple streams of income) group. Bob created this group to empower entrepreneurs to help each other grow, learn and serve with more joy in the journey.
Follow Up Reading:
1. The Magic Word by Earl Nightingale
2. What other people think of me/you is none of my business by Terri Cole Whittaker
3. Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, to cure procrastination -
Read chapter on DECISION every day with a buddy for 30 days out loud.
4. THE SCIENCE OF GETTING RICH BY WALLACE WADDLES
CONS: I regret that Bob is no longer on this mortal coil….i feel sad I did not meet him in person. I missed out on meeting a master of transformation and mindset enhancements. 🥲
“Create or disintegrate!”
“We live in an ocean of motion.”
Praxis = the integration of belief with behavior
🟪🟪Problem solving formula:
1. List 10 things I’m grateful for
2. Send love to 3 people who annoy/bother me
3. Sit quietly for 5 minutes
4. Ask for guidance for the day.
Check out MSI CONNECT (mulptiple streams of income) group. Bob created this group to empower entrepreneurs to help each other grow, learn and serve with more joy in the journey.
Follow Up Reading:
1. The Magic Word by Earl Nightingale
2. What other people think of me/you is none of my business by Terri Cole Whittaker
3. Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, to cure procrastination -
Read chapter on DECISION every day with a buddy for 30 days out loud.
4. THE SCIENCE OF GETTING RICH BY WALLACE WADDLES
May 2, 2024
The audio style was interesting.Being that there was someone asking questions and someone answering it. The book mentioned everything.I've learned or read about in other self Help books, but it didn't tell me how to attain it. I understand that my mind is a powerful thing, and I just need to have faith and keep a repetitious mentality and accept that I have already achieved these goals.
This was still a great listen, It got my brain and my mind thinking and trying my best to be more confident in myself to achieve more in life. I'm a bit negative and not getting younger. Books like this really make me feel like perhaps I actually do more things in life instead of just rotting in bed.
This was still a great listen, It got my brain and my mind thinking and trying my best to be more confident in myself to achieve more in life. I'm a bit negative and not getting younger. Books like this really make me feel like perhaps I actually do more things in life instead of just rotting in bed.
August 17, 2024
Good book.
My take aways to implement are::
1) write down 10 things you are grateful for
2) send love to three people that bother you
3) Be quiet for 5 minutes and ask God for guidance
4)Walk away from anyone who no longer serves you, grows you or doesn’t make you happy!
My take aways to implement are::
1) write down 10 things you are grateful for
2) send love to three people that bother you
3) Be quiet for 5 minutes and ask God for guidance
4)Walk away from anyone who no longer serves you, grows you or doesn’t make you happy!
November 22, 2024
Awesome book
Bob Proctor is awesome 👏 he is one of the self development greats. Read it. So many of us are stuck in old beliefs and old patterns. It’s so important to break out of that. Life is great and manifesting our own life is how we break through the suffering and find true joy ❤️
Bob Proctor is awesome 👏 he is one of the self development greats. Read it. So many of us are stuck in old beliefs and old patterns. It’s so important to break out of that. Life is great and manifesting our own life is how we break through the suffering and find true joy ❤️
August 12, 2024
I listened to this on Audible. Informative. A bit vague, but I will try another one of his books.
October 22, 2024
I started this tiny audiobook 8 months ago!! It is a great interview with some beautiful gems, but you have to slog through a bunch of repeat information and Bob’s arrogance. I know, I’m focusing on the negative. But to focus on the positive I took a bunch of notes and can’t wait to go and review them now that my 8 months read is over. I can envision so many goals I know I will achieve.
November 24, 2024
4.5 stars. Great book, makes you think.
January 14, 2025
This is one of those life changing reads. I’m inspired to study more and be better. Going to be reading this book for a lifetime and hope others might share in it with me.
May 28, 2025
This is really morning a podcast, but it had some good reminders
September 22, 2025
3.5, I listened to the audiobook. An inquisitive, insightful primer on the subject with Proctor's own answers from 2021.
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