Monday Morning Motivation – Abundance
(Sharing Resources to Help You Grow Personally, Professionally & Financially)
Sometimes it helps to get a little dose of encouragement — along with a good cup of coffee! — to start the day.
Hopefully the message below will help you get off to a good start for the week. Please feel free to forward the newsletter on to others that you think would benefit from the content.
Abundance
This month I’m going to step away from drawing my influence from my friend Zig Ziglar, and go with a few topics that I have become exposed to over the past two years via my Iron Sharpens Iron mastermind group and the men’s group I attend at the Compass Church here in Naperville. The topics for each week for this month will be trials, control, abundance and gratitude. One thing that I have come to realize over the past few years is that moving from success to significance is all about impacting the lives of others. Hopefully you’ll take away an idea or two that will help you to improve your life and the lives of others.
The last two weeks I’ve focused on trials and control. The messages were we need to embrace the tough times in life and focus on improving ourselves. This week I turn my attention to the issue of abundance.
In my opinion, the lies we believe about abundance are what trips us up in the area of trials and control. In my case I all too often believe that there is scarcity in some part of my life. That belief in scarcity leads me to see trials as hindering my limited time and causes me to want to control things so that I can enjoy things on my schedule.
However, when I reframe things and STOP looking at things like time as a scarce resource and start looking at it as an abundant resource, suddenly things turn around very quickly. Once I accept that I DO have access to the necessary time, I’m able to settle down (i.e. not see such a crisis/trial) and accept that things will likely work out if I just let them (i.e. relinquishing control).
Looking at life through an abundant lens, allows us to see that there are more good things available to us than we could ever imagine. If one train leaves, another is right around the corner. And when we see things in this manner, we are able to relax and enjoy our journey through life.
That brings us to this week’s question:
- Do you believe that we live in a world of abundance?
Thanks for sharing a bit of your time with me this Monday morning and I wish you all the best for the week.
Curt
(Note: Each week I publish “Monday Morning Motivation” in the hopes that one person will find a bit of inspiration and that inspiration will have a positive impact on their life. My motivation comes from experiences, reading, sermons, and discussions.)
Blog posts from this past week:
At F5 Financial Planning we focus on helping individuals and families find balance between faith, friends and family, fitness and finance. We make sure that they have the financial freedom to enjoy those things in life that are important to them. And while we believe the left-brain facts and data are critical; we work with our clients to get them in the right state of mind to focus on the goals they want to achieve.
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