Truth Bomb Tuesday: Make time for an abundant future
Are you able to zoom out right now?
I mean, imagine you were an alien that lived for thousands of years. Could you zoom out and hold that perspective?
Could you see this moment of time – everything that’s going on in the world and in your life right now – within the broader sweep of history?
And look, it’s totally fine if you can’t.
Zooming out doesn’t actually help you ‘achieve’ anything. It’s not going to help you pay the bills. It’s not going to pay-down the mortgage. It’s not going to get you a promotion.
But it could – it could – give you greater peace of mind…
… AND it could key you into an abundance mindset – the mindset that’s required for exceptional results.
And how?
Well, first, find a way to connect with how amazing the now right now actually is.
Yes, things are hard. Interest rates are high. Bombs are falling. The worst of us seem to be rewarded with riches and power. You’re priming the kids for less presents than usual this Christmas.
It sucks. I get it.
But, thanks to our brilliant, the-pinnacle-of-evolution-so-far brains we can imagine what it’s like if we zoom out.
We can imagine what it was like to be a cave dweller – what it was like to eat once or twice a week if we were lucky, and to spend our entire lives infested with nits and intestinal worms, only to drop dead at 30.
Or we can imagine what it was like a thousand years ago. Where we worked our guts out every day just to have a chance to survive winter, only to have a
neighbouring army come through and slaughter everyone anyway. Boom. Dead at 30.
Or we can imagine what life is like right now, in the hundreds of countries that have barely a fraction of the wealth that Australia has. We can imagine what it would be like to walk several kilometres to fill an old oil tin with dirty water, or to spend our childhoods begging outside tourist hot-spots in the capital.
We can imagine all this, and from that perspective, we can look at our lives again.
From that perspective, things are pretty bloody amazing. Flawed as it is, our democracy is stable and functional, and we enjoy a freedom previous generations could only have dreamed of.
We can turn on the tap and run ourselves a hot bath, luxuriating in an abundance of water and the energy required to make that water hot.
Or we could, for a mildly inconvenient expense, go to Woolies and fill a trolley with so many fancy delicacies that our feast would make the famous kings of history blush with its decadence.
We can do that. You can do that right now.
The abundance available to you right now is staggering. It should feel staggering.
And that feeling is key.
As much as possible, as often as possible, you should go into that feeling. You should let your mind be blown with just how amazing your life is right now.
(Not to deny your hard times. You need to be honest with that. But that’s a different mindset for a different time.)
But as much as you can, you should anchor your experience in the feeling of staggering abundance.
Because the more you do that, and the more grateful you feel for it… well, two things will happen.
First, it changes how you feel about your life overall. It will make you feel more grateful and happy about your life in total. It is mood lifting.
But second, it’s a powerful input into life’s attractor mechanism. It’s an input that says, I like this, I’d like more of this.
And that in turn, creates more abundance. (More abundance! Can you imagine? How is that even possible?!)
So look, do this as much and as often as possible.
And I know it gets hard to find the motivation sometimes. It’s not going to help you pay the bills today.
But this will set you up for the future.
And abundant future.
DB.