Do You Believe In Abundance?

Despite deeply painful disappointments and difficult challenges in my life, I have always been a believer in gratitude and abundance. But I find many people believe in deprivation and lack instead. They tend to have a scarcity mentality and lack consciousness, focusing on what they do not have, instead off inviting new blessings into their life.

I have seen this play out in business many times over the years. I have owned several successful businesses over the years. Every time I launched a new venture, similar businesses would somehow try to sabotage or damage my new business.

But these companies with such underhanded strategies almost always did not survive in the long run. Not because of the success of my business, but because they did not believe in abundance in their own business.

Their energy was not being invested in improving their own products and services, but instead focused on hurting someone else’s. In the process all they achieved was cutting off their own energy flow of prosperity and abundance.

I have also suffered losses and disappointments in business, but I do not allow that to stop me from picking up the pieces and moving forward. All business is temporary. While many family businesses and large corporations will survive for generations, the average start-up business will probably last less than a decade.

Of course, there are always ways to revive, improve, reinvent, and update your business for it to survive longer. And the best foundation for achieving this kind of longevity is the belief in and practice of an abundance mentality. Managing your business based on a mindset of lack, scarcity, envy, fear and pettiness will never make it thrive.

Take heed you harbor not that vice called Envy, lest another’s happiness be your torment, and God’s blessing become your curse ~ Wellins Calcott

When you focus on deprivation, you focus on competing with and taking from others. When you focus on abundance, you focus on attracting to you what you need for your business to thrive. If you focus on abundance, you are also preparing for bouncing back when your business most needs it.

Life is about cycles. We need the changes and seasons for balance. Too much sun creates a drought and too much rain creates a vitamin D deficiency and floods!

An abundance attitude will always bring a new business opportunity or a positive transformation in your current business: perhaps an new location, a new manager, a new product. When you believe in abundance, you attract what you need for the next new adventure, instead of losing even more by focusing on what you think others have and you don’t.

One of the most profound moments in my life was when I was a young dance student. I was about 17 years old. The dancer next to me in class was staring at me. I could see it from my periphery. I was very focused on our center kicks and was able to not only kick to my head, but I hit my shin to my forehead with perfect posture and form. That was my focus.

But while I was focusing on myself and improving my own technique, she was obsessing about what I was doing. When I looked back at her in the mirror, I noticed she could barely manage to kick above her waist. I then realized her energy was intensely going towards competing with me, instead of believing she could also kick all the way up to her head. In the process her performance suffered even more.

It is never wise to seek or wish for another’s misfortune. If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang ~ Charley Reese

It was a profound realization for me. I never looked at others, other than the teacher, when I danced. I always went into meditative state, pulling energy in. I always believed I could do anything the teacher taught me, so competition and envy was not a focus for me. My focus was my own success and abundance, not that of others.

Envy and competition are about a sense of lack and deprivation, and a lack of gratitude. We don’t need to compete or feel envious when we feel we have enough, and when we appreciate the things we do have (no matter how humble or limited our blessings may be).

A mentality of not feeling you will ever have enough, or that you will never have what the other person has, unless you take it from them, will never invite abundance into your life. Every day, go out into the world and believe the Universe will provide whatever you may need – not what you want, but what you need.

Trust in the constant flow of abundance and be grateful for whatever you receive every day. There is always someone who has less than you or is struggling more than you. Count your blessings and live in the belief in abundance.