Understanding the scarcity mindset meaning starts with a simple observation: desperation is a stinky cologne.
When you focus on the negative aspect of your current situation, you ooze it. Quite often, as this desperation permeates through a room, there’s a physical reaction. Others will literally recoil and move away.
That is, except when they don’t.
When Desperation Finds Company
Sometimes there isn’t just one person wearing stinky cologne, but an entire group. These are the people who find the main desperation offender and reassure them that yes, their situation is as bad as they thought.
These people empower desperation. They show you who to point the finger of blame at. They think they’re helping by making you feel better, which is helpful at first. But if they end up reinforcing your belief that something external can affect you, they’ve done more harm than good.
The Room Divides
Desperation usually causes a rift between a room of people. There will be those who line up and reinforce the desperation, and those who want nothing to do with it.
More often than not, those lathering a room with their sob story are the ones who had to wait in line forever. They had a mix-up getting their credentials. They weren’t on the list like they were supposed to be. They were skipped over when opportunities went out.
This is the scarcity mindset in action.
The VIP Mindset
On the opposite hand, you’ll see those with a VIP mindset. These people aren’t necessarily celebrities or executives. They simply have an expectation that things will be easy for them.
They understand that no matter what their life situation, they’ll always meet the right people at the right time. They’ll never have to wait in line. Or when they do wait, they meet the exact person they were hoping to meet.
For those with this mindset, desperation is counter-productive. It’s the stinky cologne that makes the powerful people who could actually help them want to walk to the other side of the room.
A State of Mind
Being a VIP is a state of mind. Guilty by association is a classification system that’s alive and well. When you act like a VIP, you’ll find yourself mingling with that crowd. When you act out of desperation and let that be the story written on your face, you’ll only attract others in the same boat of distress.
Just because you feel desperate doesn’t mean that has to be the lens through which you view the world.
At any moment, you could meet someone looking for exactly what you offer. You could win the opportunity. You could talk with someone who inspires you to do what you’ve always wanted to do. You could find the one piece of advice that allows you to see the bigger picture in simple steps.
What Vibe Are You Sending?
Events and gatherings are full of people who make things happen for a living. When you’re on their wavelength of infinite opportunity, they can make things happen for you.
Are you wearing the stinky cologne of desperation, or wafting out a wavelength of infinite opportunity?
As the old adage goes, what you sow, you shall reap. What vibe are you sending out? That’s what you’ll receive in return.
Make it a good one.
This is the lens the Bible is meant to be read through.
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