What will it take to turn our economy around? Many are finding it hard to focus on the positive right now. It’s very difficult to avoid being sucked into the negativity of downtrodden media, plummeting stock market statistics, and stories about the tragic numbers of hardworking people who have lost jobs. It’s likely that you, or one of your loved ones, have been affected, in some way, by our current economic situation. How much longer should we allow this to consume us? We don’t have to. We have the choice to take actions to either rise above or sink.

This is a great article found on mercola.com for those who are ready to turn this situation around and focus on projecting positivity.

How can you creat the abundance mindset? Give away whatever you’ve got. Some people are always running out of time. They’re always in a panic to get things done. If you’re always out of time, then do the sensible thing; give your time away. Some people don’t give away their time because they don’t think there is “enough time” to give. That’s a signal that you’re coming from lack. It’s that lack that keeps you stuck in the scarcity mindset.

Maybe you’re one of those people who holds onto every penny you’ve got. There’s nothing wrong with being frugal, but holding onto your money doesn’t bring more of it to you. Hoarding your money is evidence that you don’t think you have enough.

How do we break this pattern? How do we eliminate this scarcity mindset and create an abundance mindset?

To create the abundance mindset, you have to be willing to give

Here are 6 ways to create the abundance mindset:

1.) Cash Shortage? Give some away. Consider giving money to a friend or family member to help them out. Givers gain.

2.) Are you Short on Time? You can give your time too. Find the balance between giving and recieving.

3.) Lacking Love? You’ve got to give some before you get some. Go out right now and give 5 people you know a big hug.

4.) Stuck With a Problem? Help others first. Think of someone you know that is having a similar problem. Think of a way that you could help them. When you help others wholeheartedly, help will always come back to you.

5.) Lacking Confidence? Give it away. Find someone you know who is lacking in self-confidence and give them a boost.

6.) Short on Creative Ideas? Give them away! Give others creative ways to increase profits to their business. Find a new stimulating career or improve their health.

Be willing to give what you have from where you are and abundance will flow into your life. You will create the abundance mindset.

Sources:
Lifehack February 2, 2009

Related Sources:
Using EFT for Money, Abundance, and Success
The Penny Milli

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The Last Lecture

A fantastic video by Randy Pausch, now deceased after battling Pancreatic cancer. Pausch talks about achieving your childhood dreams and living life to your fullest potential.

By Heather Denniston, DC

Sometimes I live in a box. Not a cardboard throw-away that used to house somebody’s new big screen TV. I mean that figurative box that you snuggle up inside when your life is coasting along and things are safe and familiar. That box comes in many shapes and sizes and goes by a plethora of aliases; the comfort zone, the status quo, net neutral existance. You look around and say, “Life isn’t exceptional but it is pretty darn good.” Then you notice that it’s quiet…too quiet. That kind of quiet when clouds roll over your head and you say to yourself, “Huh, I wonder what that rumbling noise is?” Then with a crackle and snap your world as you know it opens up and the ground falls out from your firmly planted feet. It still goes by the same name. Change is a sudden loss of a job. Change is a poor report from the doctor. Change is scary. Change is hard.

In the book, Tuesdays With Morrie, Morrie is a wise professor suffering from the terminal repercussions of ALS. He speaks of his situation and says that he allows five minutes in the morning to feel sorry for himself and then he mentally moves past it and onto what he needs to do and experience to get the most out of his final days. I appreciated his insight because his philosophy relates to change as well. When faced with a big, scary, unanticipated changed, allowing a few minutes to say, “why me” and reflect what you’re losing is okay and a natural part of the process of moving forward. However, you then must pull yourself out of the mire and put one foot in front of the other to create the forward motion needed to navigate the eye of the storm. This forward motion is the only means by which you can emerge on the other side and look back to say, “I understand what I was supposed to learn,” or “I had no idea I was this strong,” and if you’re lucky, “I see why this all had to happen this way and what good things were a result.”

When change hit my life, like the death of my father, or the loss of a valuable friendship, did I say, “Hey, I would like my life to be thrown into upheavel so that I can learn some new things?” No, I am human. I like comfortable, not crazy. But because of the changes in my life, am I more clearer, am I stronger, and am I more prepared for the next snowball that life intends to throw in my face? Yes. Would those character strengthening transformations have happened if the thunder hadn’t rolled and the ground hadn’t opened up? Definitly not.

Change is the obstacle course that we must navigate to achieve wisdom. It is our learning playground. Change forces us outside our metaphorical box into the unknown where are senses are heightened and we can be open to learn new things. Change will ask you what you’re made of and allow you to prove to yourself that you are stronger than you ever imagined.