Bustin' With Abundance: Deleting the Scarcity Mentality

You like pizza? I looooove pizza. A great big, cheesylive in a world of scarcity. "If someone else succeeds
pizza with soft fluffy crust covered with lots ofthat 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 breakgreenbacks to go around." That's a dirty, miserable lie
room, you've forgotten lunch, and this delectable pizzaand yet how many of us believe it? Too many. To
is sitting on the table, hot and ready to be eaten. Theparaphrase Carol Rice, founder of Cherish Bound, "The
problem is, there are 13 of you and there are only 10universe is conspiring to help us achieve our dreams!"
slices. I know what you're thinking: sacrifice my bodyOnce we act, that action creates motion in people and
and dive into it so I can be one of the lucky saps tothings around us that, like a domino effect, will lead to
get a slice. But you look around nervously, waiting forthe fulfillment of our greatest desires so long as we
someone else to make a move so you don't appearpersist. I love that! How different is that from the
selfish. Finally, your co-worker, Larry, shoots to the sidementality that the "world is against me", a thought
of the table and swipes up the first piece. Chaosprocess which is generally a self-fulfilling prophecy. In
ensues! Colorful expletives start flying as well ascontrast, why not believe that the universe is conspiring
clenched fists. A few minutes later, the secretaryto make each of us succeed. By having this paradigm
comes in carrying three other large pizzas. "Hey!" sheof abundance, you will discover that the stars will begin
shouts angrily, freezing us in our tracks. "There'sto 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 towitnessed it time and time again in my own life.
understand the principle of abundance that suggestsSo, next time thoughts of scarcity enter that cranium
there IS enough for everyone and - yes - that includesof yours just remember, the world is bustin' with
you. We live in a world of abundance; abundance ofabundance. 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