Colorado Statewide Electronic Filing
| Publication year | 2000 |
| Pages | 19 |
| Citation | Vol. 29 No. 11 Pg. 19 |
2000, November, Pg. 19. Colorado Statewide Electronic Filing
Vol. 29, No. 11, Pg. 19
The Colorado Lawyer
November 2000
Vol. 29, No. 11 [Page 19]
November 2000
Vol. 29, No. 11 [Page 19]
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Colorado Statewide Electronic Filing
by Steve Loftis
by Steve Loftis
For over thirty years, I received my bank statement from the
bank every month. In the old days, I even received the
canceled checks in the mail. If you do the math for just
thirty years, that’s 360 bank statements (assuming
only one checking account). Each month, I reviewed the paper
document and reconciled my checking account—a
tedious, but necessary, exercise
In addition, for those same thirty years, I sat down at least
once a month and wrote numerous checks to pay my monthly
obligations. After writing the checks, I would tear off the
payment coupon, stuff the envelope with the check and the
coupon, seal the envelope, apply the return address (and
sometimes the mailing address), and apply a stamp (do you
recall what a first-class stamp cost in 1970?).1 Talk about
tedious
In the past six months, a paradigm shift has occurred in my
life. I still receive my bank statement in the mail once a
month, but I no longer use it to reconcile my checking
account. By the time I receive my statement, I have already
reconciled my checking account online and can reconcile it
daily, if I so choose
This is only part of the paradigm shift. In addition, I no
longer pay my bills the old-fashioned way (see steps above).
Now I am able to pay all of my bills electronically. This
step took a few months longer to embrace. I really was not
sure I trusted this new-fangled way of paying my bills. I
wondered if the bank would take the money out of my account
before I wanted it to, and I wondered if the bank would pay
the correct account in a timely manner. So far, the only
mistake has been on my part. I put the wrong account number
down and, sure enough, the wrong account got paid.
The term "paradigm shift" has become somewhat
popular in the past few years. What is a paradigm shift
Think of a paradigm shift as a change from one way of
thinking to another. It’s a revolution, a
transformation, a sort of metamorphosis. It just
doesn’t happen, but rather it is driven by agents
of change. Change, for an adult, can be very difficult. It
involves conflict, for it asks an adult to give up a set of
competencies and do things in new...
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