This post is about how to stop having a scarcity mindset.
What is a Scarcity Mindset?
A scarcity mindset is where all you think is that nothing goes right, and nothing will ever go right, and everything sucks all the time. You believe that you always draw the short end of the straw, you get the worst things in life, and nothing is ever good in your life.
Does that sound familiar?
Well, you can stop having a scarcity mindset, just like I did.
A lot of those thoughts above are really detailed because they are actually how I lived my every day life. I’m surprised things turned out better than they did, because thoughts create your reality.
However, even though I did have all those negative thoughts, I did have one positive thought that was my saving grace.
“Things always work out for me.”
I truly believed that I always figured things out in the end. Nothing extreme would ever happen to me. I truly believed that, and that is what I got.
After a while of course, I promised to get more positive and move out of this scarcity mindset. That’s why things got better and better.
In this post, I’ll share with you all the ways that I can help you to stop having a scarcity mindset.
6 Ways to Stop Having a Scarcity Mindset
Here are my 6 tips to help you learn how to stop having a scarcity mindset. If there is one thing I am 100% sure of, it is that you can absolutely change your state of mind, and thereby your reality, just by changing a few thoughts.
Remember that the change in our life comes from making the decision to form tiny little habits that change the course of our entire lives!
Here are 6 ways to stop having a scarcity mindset:
1 – WANT THE GOOD THINGS, NOT THE BAD!
A while back, I realized that on the daily, I wasn’t actively wanting the good stuff. I was wired to wanting bad stuff! If I was cooking something, I’d think, this is going to turn out bad.
Why?
Why did I actively think things would go wrong? Did I want that? Not really. So why is it easy to think that the bad thing will happen and not the good thing? That’s a result of a scarcity mentality.
How to stop having a scarcity mindset? Start by actively wanting the good stuff. Wake up in the morning and tell yourself you want to have a great day. When you’re cooking, tell yourself it’s going to turn out amazing.
2 – SAY POSITIVE AFFIRMATIONS
I wrote a really long post on how affirmations saved my life.
Read here: How Affirmations Saved My Life
I had started actively saying positive affirmations, even when I didn’t believe them 100%. They literally make the biggest difference in changing your mindset.
I would say affirmations are the number one method to stop having a scarcity mindset. How else will you reprogram your mind if it isn’t for consciously introducing new and positive thoughts?
“Today is a good day. Everything is perfect. Everything works out great for me. Everyone is so loving to me. I love life. I am so happy.”
Affirmations are the way to completely change your mind. They are very capable of making you completely stop having a scarcity mindset.
3 – NEUTRALIZE NEGATIVE THOUGHTS IMMEDIATELY
People like me, I grew up thinking and believing negative thoughts. I spent one day tracking all my thoughts. I realized that I would not think a single positive thought! All my thoughts were negative.
All. Of. Them.
How horrendous!
I couldn’t comprehend how all my freaken’ thoughts were negative. I mean, I get that I grew up with a victim mentality, but that didn’t account for my ZERO positive thoughts.
There is no excuse to not think positive thoughts. Especially for me, now that I know how all my thoughts are negative, and the things that happen to me are just things not working out or not being perfect.
4 – YOU ARE THE MASTER OF YOUR REALITY
This is your reality. If we’re being kind of metaphysical here, no one really exists.
You don’t really know what people are thinking in their minds. All you really have is you. You are this soul in a body. You are this being of magnificence who came to experience this earthly life. Why shouldn’t you be the master of the way you think?
You must be your number one priority. You must want the best things in life for yourself. It’s only right that you, the combination of soul and physical body, gets what YOU want.
You can choose the color of the glasses you’re wearing to view the world. You don’t have to be negative, ever. You own your experience.
5 – SHOW GRATITUDE
Number 5 on how to stop having a scarcity mindset: Gratitude
Gratitude is as simple as noticing what is right in your life. A lot of us tend to focus on all the bad things going on in our lives. We fail to understand that appreciating what we do have is also a great idea.
There are things we think are permanent fixtures in our lives, but if we lost them, we would be so sad. That’s why I like to be grateful for even the small things that go right in my life.
It’s not that hard. Think of the times you badly wished to have something in your life. Now think of what you do have. Maybe you worked hard to get it – imagine if you didn’t have it anymore! That’s one way to get into the gratitude mindset.
6 – BELIEVE YOU ARE WORTHY AND DESERVING
I believe a scarcity mentality has more than a little to do with believing you are not worthy and deserving. Of course, a lot of it is to do with your upbringing and how your parents spoke to you, or how they spoke about all the things in your life.
Did your parents ever say thing like, “Money doesn’t grow on trees!”
“Do you know how much electricity or water bills cost! Turn down the heating!”
“There are so many people who have it worse than you.”
Or like my mom who likes to point out all the people suffering in the world.
Your parents’ actions have had a huge impact on you. The way they treat you makes you begin to believe that you are not deserving and worthy.
My mom would always ask me, “Are you sure that’s what you want to get?” when we went shopping or whatever. She made me grow up indecisive, but she also made me believe I was not worth it.
But these days, I truly believe that it is my birthright to be worthy and deserving of all the good things in the world. I’m as worthy as the next person!
This is something I still struggle with, but I’m beating my programming back bit by bit. Believing I’m worthy and deserving really helped me to stop having a scarcity mindset.
PIN FOR YOUR PINTEREST
Leave a Comment!