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Author Insight
Is Scarcity Just a Limiting Belief?
Are you someone who feels as if you never have enough money—no matter how much money you have in your life? When you experience that uncomfortable feeling, you tend to constantly focus on how to make more—or to keep from losing what you already have. That focus keeps you from enjoying what you have now. It also keeps you from planning realistically for the future. I deliberately used the word ‘feel’ here, but the truth is, that type of feeling is not really a feeling at all. It is a belief, and often it is a belief that has very little relationship to reality. It may be a conclusion you reached about the world when you were a child. Often when children, who haven’t yet developed much reasoning skill, overhear adult conversations, strange things happen. This is especially true when they hear emotional arguments. When those arguments are about money, they reach conclusions based on very fragmented and often inaccurate information. Those conclusions become the limiting beliefs that keep you stuck in scarcity, unable to even recognize the abundance you could enjoy. We wrote Embrace Prosperity: Resolve Blocks to Experiencing Abundance to help you recognize and resolve those limiting beliefs so you can experience the joy and abundance you crave. It is easier than you think. Start now!
Book Excerpt
Embrace Prosperity
Are You Stuck Too?
If you believe “I don’t have enough” or “There isn’t enough”—whether that’s enough money, enough time, enough love, enough friends, or enough resources to do what you want to do in any area—then the answer is yes.
Laurie: I have been there. I once needed to make a daily choice between buying the lunch drink I wanted and the one I could afford. The difference in price was only two cents. This happened a long time ago, but the difference was very real to me when my personal spending budget was only five dollars a week.
Willem: I have been there, too. When I was 14 years old, my family was poor. One of my shoes had a hole in the toecap, because I had worn them for a long time. Because they were my only pair, I couldn’t bring them to the shoemaker’s shop to have them repaired. It took my parents weeks to collect the money for new shoes. In that time, I learned that there wasn’t enough.
After many years of struggle, we learned a process that helped us release the last vestiges of those struggles and discover the abundance that truly exists in our worlds.
This book will help you discover and experience abundance in your relationship to money. But it just might overlap into those other areas, too.
You Need to Start Where You Are Now
If you don’t feel like you have enough money, you’ve probably learned to believe some ideas like these:
- Money burns a hole in your pocket
- The rich get richer and the poor get poorer
- You can’t win for losing
- Money is the root of all evil
- One way to lose a friend is to lend him money
- Save it for a rainy day
- Marry a rich man—or woman
- Money doesn’t grow on trees
- You spend money like it’s going out of style
- We can’t afford this
- It’s only money
Did you hear your parents, grandparents or religious institutions insist that this is the truth, even the absolute truth? How did hearing them help you learn to believe in scarcity?
Laurie: Whenever I teach a class about relieving money anxiety, the first thing I ask participants to do is create posters of statements they heard about money when they were children. We put them on the wall and refer to the statements throughout the workshop. Later, we try to answer the following questions about each statement:
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