Mindful Monday - Abundance and Scarcity Thinking

About This Talk

Chris opens with a story about his computer dying at the eleventh hour, which ended with a new machine, a repaired spare and a new program learned. From there he contrasts scarcity thinking, which starts in fear and leads to small choices, with abundance thinking, which starts in gratitude. He asks listeners to be honest about when they slip into scarcity, because naming it is the only way to rise above it.

Key Ideas

• How you choose to look at a situation matters, because your mindset shapes what you attract and the results you get.
• Scarcity thinking hoards, avoids risk and fears change; abundance thinking shares knowledge, welcomes competition and takes ownership of change.
• Everything around you exists because someone challenged the status quo and wasn’t afraid of change.
• Fear leads to anxiety and small, reductive choices; gratitude settles you, gives you peace of mind and leads to wiser decisions.
• Reductive thinking sees only the circumstances, while expansive thinking imagines all the possibilities and opportunities ahead.

“It’s just simply a matter of how we choose to look at things.”