Scarcity mentality affects every area of your life.
You don’t feel like you have enough money.
You don’t feel like you have support.
You don’t feel loved.
You don’t feel like there is enough food in the fridge.
When you’re in scarcity, there is never enough.
I’ve been there, and it’s hard to loosen up, which only makes it worse because you get back what you put out.
One morning a long time ago at my height of my feelings of scarcity and out of balance, I randomly paid for the coffee of the person behind me in the drive through.
I had to scrape up the spare change in my ashtray to do it.
I was doing it intentionally anonymously and for a complete stranger so there were no strings attached.
Inside I felt like I had made the first move by giving, and I hoped that when the time was right it would be returned to me after it had been massaged by the universe and grown into something unexpected and totally unrelated somewhere down the road.
3 hours later I was back in the drive through of a different coffee shop and my coffee was paid for by someone in front of me.
It was so blatantly reciprocated and in such a hurry, I felt a bit shafted because I wanted it to come back bigger and better… but I also smiled.
And I still smile as I remember it today.
You get what you give.
You reap what you sow.
And the universe will play nicely with you if you are just willing to get in the game.