Here is a question for you, do you pursue the abundance or the scarcity life? Maybe you’re pondering what does that really mean? Well let me take a swing and share with you some thoughts.
In the self help, leadership, and business arenas you will be encouraged to have abundance thinking. Sometimes it becomes this future perspective of something to attract or to accomplish. Let me say that I believe in the abundance mentality, but I believe it’s more then just something we move ourselves towards, but something we move ourselves from.
So let me rephrase the initial question I proposed and ask it this way. Do you live from an abundance perspective or a scarcity perspective?
Abundance living is not something to be pursued but something to be acknowledged in the present. I want to encourage you to start with a reality check and look at where you are and what you have. A simple exercise but very effective one is to have an attitude of gratitude and take an inventory of what you are grateful for today. Starting a gratitude journal and doing this as a nightly exercise will help you keep your perspective in line.
This is the thing, we can all find something in our lives today, even if we are going through hard times, to be thankful for. Our family, the food on our table, the roof over our heads, and even the opportunities to go out and better our lives tomorrow. We have plenty of reasons to acknowledge abundance in our lives.
There is a warning though. I believe that we have a human tendency to always live with a scarcity mindset. We live in this tension between abundance and scarcity. We ignore what we have, and we are always seeking for more and or the other thing. We will struggle with the grass is greener on the other side syndrome. But I have learned that grass is not greener on the other side, the grass is greener where we water it. Just because you want it and like it doesn’t mean you need it. It doesn’t even mean that it’s what’s best for you. The world will always throw things in your direction to distract you from your potential and purpose. Seek to have wisdom in your daily living.
The scarcity mentality will distract you from the blessings in your life and keep you trapped in the cycle of this is never enough. Seek to be a person who is grateful and sees the abundance in the now. Learn the art of being content while striving to be the best version of yourself that will impact others and not get stuck in selfish pursuits. Live abundantly and remember scarcity will always tell you that is not enough.
A fulfilled life lives in abundance. Reflect on the good from the past, learn and evaluate it. Dream of the future and have vision, but let it start from the present that is already offering you so much.
Grow as you go!
Walter Perez – Founder/CEO – The Leader Co. Inc.