Look around the place you live in! What do you see? Or, what are the things you don’t see or miss? A new couch? Or the peeling paint of the walls? The drab curtains? Or, how there seems to be the need of a new couch in the corner? Or, that the TV screen is not as big as you would like?

Do you realize how intensely we are aware of the lack of things instead of their abundance! This is what the human mind is like or has been conditioned like, i.e., the mind starts focusing on whatever is missing in the picture rather than whatever is already there! It’s called the limited mindset, the impoverished mindset, the scarcity mindset.

The Scarcity Mindset  

You are aware of how the lack of things make you feel! Stressed, down, depressed! What exacerbates the feeling of lack is the comparsion we make of our life with that of others. We zero in and stress about what they have and what we don’t have. This mindset of lack and the tendency of making comparsions are one of the many contributors towards feeling unhappy and dissatisfied with life.

The Abundance Mindset

On the contrary, the abundance mindset dictates that you are appreciative of whatever you have in life, people, time, money, resources, health, etc. Moreover, you don’t envy people for what they have (and you don’t have)! You don’t compare yourselves to anyone! And if you do so, you compare your life and its blessings and burdens with someone’s life who is not as lucky as you are. As a result, you find yourself feeling luckier and even more blessed than others struggling and facing adversities.  

The practice of having gratitude and thankfulness towards life creates happiness and abundance in life.

Practices to Grow an Abundant Mindset

An abundant mindset entails an a positive and pro-life attitude. This means that you should have:

• Have a broader vision of life.
• Appreciate the whole of life and parts of it.
• Take the highs of life in stride as well as the lows.
• Have clarity about what we want in life and how do we want to go about it.
• Have personal and professional goals that give us purposefulness, enthusiasm and will to strive forward.
• Be thankful for whatever you have and whatever you are being offered.
• Embrace the uncertainty and ups and downs of life. Appreciate how life unfolds and not how and what you expect it to be like.

2 Simple Ationable Steps You Can Take to Create Abundance

Step 1

Each day, take out 5 minutes like when you are having coffee or laying out clothes for the next day, packing lunches for yourself or the family, do these two things:

Pause for a second! Reflect upon the sense goodness in a day: anything that had brought you joy, ease, peace, comfort, support, calm, and opportunity. In short, it can be anything now and there or anything in the past, if you are having an overwhelming or tough day! Say thank you to Universe for that thing.

Step 2

Create a physical list of 3 good things in your life that you are grateful for. It can be anything: resources, things, people, feelings, etc. If you are not a list type person, you can create a mental list. Again, thank the Universe for those three good things in your life.

Conclusion

The kind of attitude we have in life makes a major difference upon our health, our sense of well-being, our fortunes and mental peace. People who possess a scarcity mindset only see lack, scarcity and limitations in life. As a result, they always stressed, anxious and depressed. On the other hand, people who have a mindset of abundance feel more satisfied, accomplished and blessed with their life and its offerings. They lead their lives with a vision, have goals, embrace life’s uncertainty Leading your life with awareness of the good things in your life and gratitude for them strengthens the abundance mindset and, in turn, create a life of abundance.