Have you ever felt stuck in a cycle of stress, worry, and dissatisfaction?

Like no matter what you do, there’s never quite enough?

That feeling isn’t bad luck or circumstance. It’s a hidden thought pattern called scarcity mindset, and it's silently shaping how you see the world.

Let me explain...

There's two ways to see the world.

You can either have a scarcity mindset. When you think there's not enough in the world.

Or you can have an abundance mindset. When you accept that there's enough in the world.

The world makes it easy to be pulled into a scarcity mindset.

Work commitments and family responsibilities leave you with not enough time to do what you want. Bills and expenses leave you with not enough money to buy what you want. And with what little energy you have left sorting these leaves you with not enough energy to enjoy what you have.

All you end up feeling is there's not enough of everything. It makes you feel stressed, powerless and unable to enjoy life.

But the better way to see the world is through an abundance mindset. An abundance mindset means you embrace abundance, possibility, and joy.

With small changes you can create an abundance mindset that makes you less stressed, more empowered and better equipped to handle daily life.

Here's 3 ways you can create an abundance mindset:

1. You have to know you have a problem before you can get to work fixing it.

Becoming aware of your thoughts, or metacognition, can help you see when you're thinking from a place of scarcity.

Scarcity thinking is based in fear, negativity and survival. Everything you think or do becomes fuelled by stress, struggle and selfishness.

The first thing you need to do is become aware of your thoughts. Once you're aware, you can start working towards fixing it.

Each time you notice yourself thinking or acting from scarcity, consciously shift your thinking into abundance. Abundance thinking is rooted in trust, growth and possibility.

An easy way to switch your thinking can be as simple as just adding the word yet to your negative thoughts. One simple way to do this is by adding the word yet to your limiting thoughts. For example, ‘I don’t have the opportunities I want’ becomes ‘I don’t have the opportunities I want yet.’ That small word opens up your thinking. Instead of being closed, your mind starts to see more solutions.

2. Practice daily gratitude.

Your brain is programmed to focus more on the negative. It's designed that way to help you avoid danger and survive.

But the problem is it can make you easily forget the positives. When all you're aware of is the negative you feel pessimistic, distant and maybe even hopeless. You might even feel like the world's against you. But really you're just viewing the world through a narrow focus.

When you take time each day to be grateful, you start to see more of the good in your everyday life. The world becomes a bit brighter. You start to see the blessings in the small stuff and realise how much there is in the world. Once you realise this, you

3. Focus on what you can give, not just what you can get.

An abundance mindset grows when you accept that there's enough.

You don't try to hold on to or control everything. Whether that's your time, your money or your relationships. You have trust that in the act of letting go, you open yourself to get it back, plus more. When you do this you create space in your life for growth.

You start to live your life instead of chasing it, trusting that what you need will find you when you need it.

An abundance mindset is about seeing the world through a lens of possibility instead of fear.

Even when things feel tight, uncertain or overwhelming, you have hope, trust and faith that things will open up, become clearer and work out for the best.

Because the truth is, abundance isn’t out there waiting to be found.

It starts inside.

It starts with how you think, how you live, and how you see the world.

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