| You like pizza? I looooove pizza. A great big, cheesy | | | | live in a world of scarcity. "If someone else succeeds |
| pizza with soft fluffy crust covered with lots of | | | | that means less success for me." Or "Everyone else |
| pepperoni, peppers, mushrooms - no anchovies please. | | | | can have money, but there simply aren't enough |
| Anyway, imagine you're standing in your office break | | | | greenbacks to go around." That's a dirty, miserable lie |
| room, you've forgotten lunch, and this delectable pizza | | | | and yet how many of us believe it? Too many. To |
| is sitting on the table, hot and ready to be eaten. The | | | | paraphrase Carol Rice, founder of Cherish Bound, "The |
| problem is, there are 13 of you and there are only 10 | | | | universe is conspiring to help us achieve our dreams!" |
| slices. I know what you're thinking: sacrifice my body | | | | Once we act, that action creates motion in people and |
| and dive into it so I can be one of the lucky saps to | | | | things around us that, like a domino effect, will lead to |
| get a slice. But you look around nervously, waiting for | | | | the fulfillment of our greatest desires so long as we |
| someone else to make a move so you don't appear | | | | persist. I love that! How different is that from the |
| selfish. Finally, your co-worker, Larry, shoots to the side | | | | mentality that the "world is against me", a thought |
| of the table and swipes up the first piece. Chaos | | | | process which is generally a self-fulfilling prophecy. In |
| ensues! Colorful expletives start flying as well as | | | | contrast, why not believe that the universe is conspiring |
| clenched fists. A few minutes later, the secretary | | | | to make each of us succeed. By having this paradigm |
| comes in carrying three other large pizzas. "Hey!" she | | | | of abundance, you will discover that the stars will begin |
| shouts angrily, freezing us in our tracks. "There's | | | | to align for you - making it possible for you to achieve |
| enough for everyone!" | | | | your dreams. I know this is true because I've |
| So, what's my point here? All too often, we fail to | | | | witnessed it time and time again in my own life. |
| understand the principle of abundance that suggests | | | | So, next time thoughts of scarcity enter that cranium |
| there IS enough for everyone and - yes - that includes | | | | of yours just remember, the world is bustin' with |
| you. We live in a world of abundance; abundance of | | | | abundance. A world of opportunity is at your fingertips. |
| opportunity, resources, and...wait for it...even money. | | | | Reach out and grab it! |
| Yet, society has brainwashed us to believe that we | | | | |