#MyWordForToday is #Abundance

#MyWordForToday is #Abundance

"Permit yourself to dream BIG and fantasize. It’s free and healthy for your mind and future." @Sola Adesakin

People often associate abundance with wealth or having pockets of money, they are not wrong but abundance manifests in so many more ways.

In our mindsets, in our thoughts, in the way, we relate to ourselves and others, in the way we give love and kindness. 

I planted a stem of bitter leaf in our compound and that one stem is blossoming into a massive tree that is currently serving our entire house.

Relating this to our mindsets, the more positivity we pour into our bodies, souls and spirits, the more fruits of positive stuff we will get back.

If you have ever lived in Northern Nigeria or you've ever been close to the people from the North, one of the first things you would notice about them is their abundance mentality.

They focus on the fact that there are limitless opportunities in business and or careers. They, therefore, aren't generally speaking, threatened by competition. 

In fact, an Hausa man will bring his relatives from the village to set up, right beside him, the very same business he is doing. They do so knowing fully well or thinking that the old Yoruba adage is true "the water I will drink would never flow past me". 

What is abundance?  The dictionary meaning says "plentiful, more than enough, Limitless". But why is it important to have an abundance mindset?

I would answer this by using the "Pareto principle". This is a principle in Economics that suggests that 80% of what happens to us is made or comes from 20% of what we do or we put in. This principle is also referred to as the "vital few and the trivial many".

It is basically saying that the 20% you put into something births 80% results. In computing circles, it is usually referred to as GIGA (garbage in, garbage out) but in life, it is garbage in but piles and piles of garbage out. 

An abundance mindset is also important because if you lack this mindset, it means that you suffer from a scarcity mindset. Nature, as we all know, abhors a vacuum.

One of the ways scarcity mindset manifests is that it makes you blow off other people's candles in a bid that yours might shine brighter. Other people's successes will never limit yours unless you allow it.

Our minds are so powerful that whatever we consciously, unconsciously or subconsciously fill it with tends to become our reality. 

So we want to be wealthy, we want to be prosperous but every day, we allow our doubts, our fears, our self-limiting beliefs, and our pasts to deter us. 

We must endeavour to sit ourselves down, examine these fears and rationalize them. And then decide that in spite of all these fears, doubts and beliefs, we will go on and we will succeed.

We must be determined to sell our lemonades and use the money to buy stocks, bonds and real estate (Okay, those were tongue in cheek).

Basically, we have to decide whether we want to keep the mindset that has not helped us in developing or we want to exchange it for a better one, one that would make us be in abundance.

Let me leave you with these thoughts on visualization. A lot of us think it is bullshit but the truth is, if you do not first acknowledge something in your subconscious mind i.e. to picture where you would like to be, you would never be able to set goals to get there. 

"You cannot feature in a future you haven't visualized"

Bibireosefowora💌