Having is the way to change our lives from seeing what’s missing, to seeing what’s there. Suh Yoon Lee

When we are grateful fear disappears and abundance appears. Tony Robins

Do we have a choice to see the world as abundant or filled with scarcity? Does our mindset affect our lives in ways we can’t imagine? Do we create our own luck, not always, but often?

Do we get what we expect out of life? Is it true that we get the neighbors we expect to get? Some people always have bad neighbors, and some people always have good neighbors?

There is a blog called Mr. Money Moustache, he lives on $25,000.00 a year so he can do whatever he wants. He retired at about thirty married with a child.  To many people living on $25,000.00 would be hardship and want. To him, it is freedom and choice.

In a book called “The Having” quotes by Suh Yoon Lee a prosperity guru for lack of a better term says. “Having is abundantly feeling what you have at the moment of spending money.”

We’ve all spent money that made us feel abundant.  We’ve also spent money that didn’t make us feel abundant. We wear the clothes we bought that we had an abundant feel about more than the ones we didn’t feel abundant when we bought them.

What is the difference? Maybe the clothes bought when we felt abundant was bought with cash and we were looking for just the right thing to wear. There it was the perfect color, the cut skimmed us, making us look exactly right. We could almost do a pirouette as we couldn’t believe our good fortune at finding the perfect item.

The item or (items) we bought when we didn’t feel abundant was bought on a whim when that money maybe should have gone somewhere else. We wish we had anticipated the purchase more. We bought a different color because we have so much of our favorite color already. Whatever the reason that item never makes us feel just right when we wear it. It never really added to our wardrobe in the way the first item did.

We may buy vehicles or houses with the same attitude. Could it be that the attitude that surrounds us colors everything?

People with a scarcity mentality tend to see everything in terms of win-lose. There is only so much; and if someone else has it, that means there will be less for me. The more principle-centered we become, the more we develop an abundance mentality, the more we are genuinely happy for the successes, well-being, achievements, recognition, and good fortune of other people. We believe their success adds to… rather than detracts from…our lives. Stephen R. Covey

Another quote by Suh Yoon Lee is, “If you pay attention to what you truly want, you’ll naturally distance yourself from wasteful or ostentatious purchases.”

The Bible tells us “ask, and it shall be given you, seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth, and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

Somehow we feel we cannot ask for what we want or need. We look at other people whose cup floweth over and wonder why our cup has so little in it. What if the cup is ours to fill?

Suh Yoon Lee says that cups aren’t necessarily all the same size. She tells us that we may never become like the Bill Gates of the world – he has a bigger cup. She says most of us would be really happy, content, and prosperous, if our cup was three-quarters full. If we live in the West our cup is probably fuller than we think, if we compare it to the rest of the world. We don’t compare it to the rest of the world; we compare it to the celebrities, Bill Gates, Donald Trump and others like them.

Instead of enjoying the abundance in our lives we compare ourselves to them and feel scarcity. It seems gratitude and prosperity goes hand in hand. The more grateful we are for what we have, the more we appreciate our good fortune, the more we appreciate and are grateful for, the more we have to appreciate and be grateful for.

There is so much to be grateful for. As I sip my cup of black coffee, I am grateful for those who grew it, processed, packaged, shipped, and sold it so I could go to the store and purchase it. So much of what we have access to is like a conveyor belt of goodness right to us.

Our lives are amazing if we think of all the cogs in the wheel that make it work. We switch on the light, flush the toilet, turn on the burner of the stove, crack an egg, and put toast in the toaster. Turn the key in our car, fill up with gas at the corner, and drive on a road or highway. Get on a plane, enjoy a vacation, and come home to our home safe and sound.

We live in peace and plenty. We already live abundant lives. Could our lives be more abundant? Could we be more grateful?

There is a lie that acts like a virus within the mind of humanity. And that lie is, “There’s not enough good to go around. There’s lack and there’s limitation and there’s just not enough. The truth is there’s more than enough good to go around. There are more than enough creative ideas. There is more than enough power. There is more than enough love. There’s more than enough joy. All of this begins to come through a mind that is aware of its own infinite nature. There is enough for everyone. If you believe it, if you can see it, if you act from it, it will show up for you. That’s the truth.” Michael Beckwith

The Having: The Secret Art of Feeling and Growing Rich by [Lee, Suh Yoon, Hong, Jooyun]
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