You will not solve lack by getting more. You will solve lack by recognizing abundance where you once saw lack. Alan Cohen
If you are not happy with what you have now, if you cannot see the abundance of what you have now, you will not see it when you have more. With limited thinking operating your life, you will not be happy with more either, because you will still be thinking and experiencing lack. Thus you will always have lack and always want more. It is a cycle that never wins, never stops, and is a trap of thinking “I’ll be happy when…”. This is a habit of scarcity thinking.
What you focus on expands. If you see the glass half empty, there is a limiting belief to examine. If you believe in lack, you will create lack. If you believe in scarcity, you will create scarcity. If you believe in abundance, you will experience abundance.
It is like the people who have scarcity thinking before they win the lottery or inheritance, and very quickly the money is gone, and they have recreated their scarcity in no time again. What the thinker thinks, he creates as his reality.
So what do you want? What will having more give you that you don’t have now? And ask it again, get your higher value, what will having that give you? What is it you really want?
It is actually a feeling that you really want. Is it love? Security? Freedom? It is not more money, more stuff – that will only keep the hamster wheel trap going round and round. What you really want, chunked higher up, is a particular feeling.
I know a couple who went bankrupt and are living on a low income. However, they are happier now than when they had more money. They decided to slow down and really enjoy each other, and they are grateful for and appreciate what they do have. They have health, family, comfort and feel they are happier than before when they had more stuff and status. It is possible to be happy with less; it is a state of mind of what you choose to focus upon.
With coaching, we work with a Daily Success journal. At the end of each day, acknowledge three successes for this day and write them in the journal. What you focus on consistently expands into your experience. By looking for 3 successes each day, you will begin to create a powerful habit of experiencing daily success and abundance.
