From “The Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything” by Stephen M. R. Covey
Abundance means that there is enough for everybody. The opposite – scarcity – says that there is only so much to go around, and if you get it, I won’t. While scarcity may be a reality in some areas (such as competitive sports or forced grading curves), in most of the important things in life – such as love, success, energy, results, and trust – abundance is not only a reality, it is an attractor and generator of even more.
According to former New York University economist Paul Zane Pilzer, “economic alchemy” is derived from principles of abundance – not scarcity – and technology has liberated us from the zero-sum game of traditional economics into the new world of unlimited abundance.
The important thing to understand is this; Abundance is a choice!
I am personally convinced that, regardless of our economic status, abundance is a choice that each of us can make. It is not the exclusive domain of the well-to-do. I know wealthy individuals who are extremely scarcity–minded and much less fortunate people who are very abundance-minded.
The measure of your life will not be in what you accumulate, but in what you give away.–Dr. Wayne Dyer, author, The Power of Intention