When we come from a place of lack, we enter into a situation with scarcity mindset. As a culture, we tend to focus on what we don’t have. If I had more time, when I’m happy with my weight or when I have enough money, then I will be happy. We base how we feel about ourselves or our situation from a place of not feeling good enough or that we have enough. We become dependent on outcomes that are theoretically going to make us happy – outcomes which we may or may not have much control over at all. When we become dependent on these things, we begin to create these expectations from others or from life in general. And like Shakespeare said, expectation is the root of all heartache. The danger of this kind of mindset is that you start living your life from a victim mentality.
If we approach our day from a place of being grateful for all that we have, we are already living our life from an abundance mindset. When we see things as abundant, we are more in control of our experience. When we feel like our world is abundant and we are open to the world and all its possibilities, a funny thing happens – we begin to attract everything we want.
So how can we shift our thoughts into a more abundance mindset?
1.) Every morning before you start your day, write down three things you are grateful for and why. If this is the only step you take and you do it consistently for a couple of weeks, you will begin to rewire your thinking to approaching the day with more of an abundance mindset.
2.) Stop being a passenger in your life. What if I told you that life wasn’t happening to you, but it was actually happening for you? You can attract exactly what you want in life if you know it’s happening for you. Be intentional and seek out what you really want. Once you become intentional, you will begin to see paths to what you want that you never even knew existed.
3.) Embrace change and see it as an opportunity. When you are open to change rather than fearing it, you open yourself to things you never knew were possible. Remember that life’s magic happens outside of our comfort zone.
4.) Have a learning and growth mindset. When things don’t work out as you expected, see it as an opportunity for you to learn and grow from the situation. Just because this one thing didn’t work, doesn’t mean nothing will. You just learned that this way isn’t the best way to achieve your goal.
