The Scarcity Mindset

<p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>This week talking about the opposite of the abundant mindset in Episode 14. That is a scarcity mindset and the problems it can cause in your efforts of being successful. We all have problems with negative thinking. Those negative thoughts are normal and have a purpose but they don’t serve us as they did in the caveman days. We use to not have enough and we had to fight for all that we had. Today that is still somewhat true but now scarcity is an element that holds us back. It keeps us safe and when being safe we are never growing emotionally or in knowledge.</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading --></p> <h2>What is the scarcity mindset?</h2> <p><!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>The scarcity mindset is seeing the world and your resources as being a zero-sum game. You are only allotted a certain amount and then when you are out it is gone.  Stephen Covey talks about this in the “7 Habits of Highly effective people” and says this,</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:quote --></p> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"> <p>Most people are deeply scripted in what I call the Scarcity Mentality. They see life as having only so much, as though there were only one pie out there. In addition, if someone were to get a big piece of the pie, it would mean less for everyone else.</p> <cite>Stephen Covey - 7 Habits of Highly Effective People</cite></blockquote> <p><!-- /wp:quote --> <!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>If you watch the news, which I advise against, you see a scarcity mindset running rampant in not only America but around the world. You see people fighting over the scraps when there is a whole garden sitting next to them. People talk about the haves and the have not’s. That is all based on what somebody else has and the others won’t ever have. As a whole scarcity, mindset is based on fear. It is fear that you won’t be able to get out of the current situation. The fear that you won’t have enough money or that you will never get that new television is exactly what scar