As we strive for something new – something better, perhaps even something greater – it’s easy to fall into limiting ways of thinking.
And one of the most pervasive examples of this is something we might not even see as a problem at first.
The issue?
Thinking we need “more”.
More time. More money. More energy. More help. More resources. More creativity. More motivation. More skill.
Whatever we use to complete the tasks at hand, odds are that we feel we could benefit from having a little more of it.
And yes, this makes sense. To a point.
But the problem with a scarcity mindset is that, even when it arises from first-hand experience, it tends to stick around… Long after the circumstances which first created it have been & gone.
Maybe we don’t need any more than we already have at our disposal.
Maybe we already have enough.
Maybe, instead of striving to accumulate larger and larger piles of resources that make us feel safe, we simply need to appraise what we have with fresh eyes.
Maybe we already have everything we require.
Maybe we do. Maybe we don’t.
But what if we did?
What kind of impact would that have on our stress levels?
Faced with a new challenge, how would we feel?
When a new pressure emerged that posed a threat to our time & sanity, how would we take it?
If everything we needed was hiding in plain sight – and finding it was simply a matter of learning to see it – what would it mean?
They’re open-ended questions with no clear answers…
But it’s the quality of the answers we come to that define our trajectory.