Why is Scarcity so Abundant?

You hear it all the time: but I can't...but you don't understand...but I don't have...but there isn't enough (time, money, energy, opportunities, ideas, luck, help, support) fill in the blank...

Seems like we're fixated on scarcity, on what we lack.

My own personal response when I find myself wallowing in "buts" is to go learn something. Immersing myself in a new challenge, gaining tools and knowledge to increase my ability to succeed, opens my mind up to the myriad of possibilities and banishes that feeling of the world being too small and smothered in scarcity.

(Believe it or not, I learned that from the musical Camelot...Arthur asks Merlin how Merlin handles it when he feels down and out and Merlin replies, "I learn something new.")

Justine Musk of Tribal Writer also has a great attitude about the lies we tell ourselves about scarcity instead of embracing abundance. Justine says of the abundance mentality:

"It’s a deep sense of the potential in you and all around you. You can use your gifts and skills to create what you need – more than you need – as you need it. Instead of worrying over the size of your pie as you fritter it away (people with a scarcity complex often indulge in careless, might-as-well-spend-it-while-i-have-it consumption), you focus on enlarging it."

What a great visual picture! Instead of carving the pie, trying to grab a bigger piece, why not just focus on making the pie larger? Enough for all to share and emerge sated, happy, and ready to get to work.

Check out the rest of Justine's post HERE.

Enjoy!