This is episode #19 and today is all about incrementally up-leveling your life starting today.
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Last week we started talking about having an abundant mindset and today I want to continue the discussion.
- When I say the word abundance, what do you think of?
- When I say the work lack or scarcity or insufficiency, what do you think of?
I want you to think of any area of your life in which you feel a place of lack.
It could be finances, or sleep but it could also be in the area of health and wellness, it could be in the area of relationships, or maybe even time. It could be in the area of a passion or hobby, maybe your career is feeling lack.
Thoughts and feelings of lack can show up anywhere.
When we think of abundance we tend to think of money or wealth and riches
But I have worked with people in order to up level their thoughts and create an abundance of health, wellness and healing and also time.
We can up level any area of your life in which you feel lack.
Abundance is not only about the dollars in your bank account or the amount of stuff you have accumulated.
In fact, the opposite is true!
One thing I have learned from my own work and working with many of my students, when it comes to creating any result, as humans we would prefer to teleport ourselves and leap right out of our current state and straight to the end results.
We want the weight on the scale today, the dollar amount in the bank account today, the house, the car…today.
If we are being honest, we would all love to win the lottery and just get on about the business of living an amazing and abundant life.
Here is the deal though…
…unless we actually do the work to create the mindset that goes with that result, we are likely to rubber band back where we started or worse within a year.
I read some crazy statistic that said 75% of lottery winners are bankrupt within 7 years.
So it’s not about having money and getting that windfall that creates abundance.
It’s your brain, it’s your thoughts, it’s your relationship with your goal and your thoughts about scarcity, lack and abundance.
We love the idea of having abundance of everything and… at the same time, it’s not always clear exactly how to create an abundant mindset.
We kind of muttle through and eeek out an existence and we end up living what I call…”make do” lives and we do this by creating work arounds.
I know this my friends from person experience.
The reason that it’s important to know this is that workarounds are energy suckers.
Energy suckers put a kink in your hose and block abundance.
I want you to really shine a light on things going on in your life that are work abounds.
We create so many workarounds in our lives in order to just make it through the day.
You may not even realize what you are putting up with from yourself and what you are tolerating from yourself for yourself.
Knowing what you are tolerating is key. Once you identify what you are tolerating, and how you are live a “make do” life, you can go to work.
Do once again…awareness is king.
Let’s do a really fun exercise this week.
- Make a list of how you would live if you did win the lottery. Dream big!
- Make a list of all of the things that you will do when you are rich or have money, get the promotion.
- Make a list of how you want to live a year from now, 5 years from now, 10 years from now.
- Make a list of how your future self will be, act, dress, eat and what do you do then that you aren’t doing now.
I want to point out so key words in the instructions of this exercise.
If when, then we will…
We are living the “if-when then we will” lives because we don’t know how to live the life we want in the future right now!
I found myself doing the exact same thing. So let me share some of the things that I had on my list.
- dress nicer for no reason at all,
- fresh flowers every week,
- get my nails done for no reason at all,
- my hair would be a color I love,
- clean sheets more often,
- fresh towel more often,
- go green,
- nicer car,
- nicer home,
- be healthier,
- workout more,
- eat better,
- sleep more…
Here is what I want you to know and understand.
It is not about spending money or having money that makes you feel abundant.
Abundance is a state of being.
So is scarcity and lack.
They come from the same source…your thoughts.
Here is how I know that…
I work with lots of students that have incredible wealth and yet they still have a scarcity mindset.
When you move through the world in a state of fear and lack, you start making workarounds in your life and make do lives.
They put a kink in your hose, they block the abundance that you are trying to create, invite and attract.
Now, what I am not say is go out and spend money you have not made yet in order to feel better.
That’s totally not the point. So if it’s not about spending money to feel abundant, what?
I love the concept of Incremental Upgrades and Up Levels!
Here is how you do it.
Find one thing off of your list from the exercise and start doing something today.
Living in a messy and cluttered home is a workaround, driving a messing and cluttered car is a workaround.
Clutter is an energy suck. It also robs you of your creativity.
You can make your house nicer and your car nicer just by clearing the clutter.
That doesn’t cost anything!
Here is an example of an incremental up level that my husband did.
When I met Steve, he was driving a Toyota Tercel. That was over 20 years ago. He was not in a position to trade up so what he did was an incremental up level.
He had the car painted and detailed, he took very good care of that car, and in a few years he did upgrade to the Jeep he wanted.
He did an incremental upgrade until he was ready to purchase the car of his heart’s desire.
He treated that Tercel as nicely as he would if it were the Jeep of his dreams.
Now, fast forward, not only has he owned a Jeep of his dreams, he is on his 3rd one.
Here is what worked about this experience.
- He didn’t make the car he was driving mean anything about his value as a human.
- He didn’t sit around whining about not having the Jeep of his dreams. Doing that is focusing on the lack.
- He focused on taking impeccable care of the car that he did have and the blessing that it was to have a car.
When you do that, it puts you in a state of gratitude and what you focus on, you create and invite and attract more of.
I have seen this work over and over in his life, in my life and my student’s lives.
I know it works!
I remember when I was a kid, I would get frustrated with something that I couldn’t have or something that wasn’t going my way, or happening fast enough…my mom would say, “just be grateful for what you have Janny.”
That would just tick me off more, so I get it if that doesn’t sound very appealing to you right now.
But here is the deal…turns out, mom was right.
When you focus on what you don’t have…you get stuck there and you create more of the same.
When you are ruminating in insufficiency for the money you don’t make, the relationship that you don’t have, the life that you don’t have…you create more of the same.
There are things on your future self-list that you could implement today.
Do that!
Keep going back to your list and incrementally upgrading and up leveling your life…so fun!
I love this quote by Mike Dooley…
“The secret to living the life of your dreams is to start living the life of your dreams today, in every little way you possibly can.”
Here is why it works.
As you start implementing incremental upgrades in any area of your life, you start feeling differently. When you feel better you start showing up differently and you will be attracting, inviting and creating different results!
Remember, what you think about is what you create more of. If you are thinking that your house is cluttered and run down, you will create more of that.
Make incremental upgrades by clearing the clutter, sell or give away what doesn’t serve you, freshen it up with paint.
You will be amazed at how good you feel.
Looking for areas in which you can apply an incremental upgrade will show you more opportunities to up level.
Every incremental upgrade you make attracts more into your life. It puts you on a frequency to receive upgrades and up levels in every area.
Every incremental upgrade builds a strong foundation of “having.”
It exercises and strengthens our “capacity to have.”
Practicing feeling abundant invites more abundance.
I hope that you love this concept as much as I do…let me know if you found this useful and helpful by leaving a like and a review.
Here is a link to my Money Mindset Virtual Workshop.
It’s free and for sure it will help you create a better relationship with money so that you can create, invite and attract more.
Here is my final thought…
You will never create, attract or invite abundance from a place of scarcity and lack.
Go practice being abundant!
Aright my friends…have the best week ever!!!
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