Living In Abundance

Most people want to bring in more financial abundance in their lives although this type of abundance may be one of the most difficult to achieve.

However, giving in to feelings of helplessness in attracting financial abundance may just lead to lesser financial abundance.

It is important to create and maintain a mindset that is both positive and determined. When one is bombarded with financial problems, he spends a lot of time thinking about how and where to get the money, instead of planning on how to spend money wisely.

If money is in scarcity and not in abundance, then a person should instead focus on what he can achieve and how many people he can help if he has money. Worrying about money can get you nowhere and definitely, it cannot get you more money.

Possessing abundance in terms of emotions means one is really fully human, capable of feeling love, joy, hatred and other emotions that humans normally feel.

A person who has emotional abundance should not be feeling greater than the others, but such person should have more feelings of sympathy, generosity, love and other emotions that make one fully human.

Being in a state of emotional abundance means being able to possess emotions that bring about a balance in one's humanity. It means more sympathy than apathy, more tolerant of what others may be feeling in certain circumstances.

Physical abundance means being healthy, robust, and possessing a body that is always attuned to the demands of nature. It means being able to heal the body when it is confronted with sickness or other physical challenges.

There are people who choose to have emotional abundance. Others choose physical abundance so they will be capable of facing life's daily challenges. However, there are people who would always welcome financial abundance, not for anything else, but merely because of acute scarcity in this area.

Some people may say money is not everything; but try to live for a month without money to buy your food and roof above your head and you will surely sing a different tune after that.

Understandably, most people have money problems and this creates anxiety and panic. There are even people who feel anxious, even though they possess enough financial resources.

Every person has enough abundance in life; some have financial, health, or emotional abundance. Whatever it is you possess, you just have to learn to appreciate it and use it wisely.

It is really a matter of being positive in every way, and in being determined of what one wants in life. It is really a matter of choosing to live a life in abundance, despite the scarcity of some, or most of life's pleasures.

You have a stable career, a well-provided family, a luxurious home and vehicles of choice. Yet at night, you often wake up to nightmares of losing all the abundance you currently enjoy.

Subconsciously, you know that your current state cannot sustain the abundant, comfortable lifestyle that you and your family have.

Well, you need not worry, for the answer is easy. This article offers two simple steps to put your mind at ease and protect your current lifestyle to maintain your abundance.

Step # 1: Grow your Assets.

Abundance happens when your net worth is positive. In order to create a positive net worth, your assets (tangible possessions) must be greater than your liabilities (obligations to financial institutions, creditors, or individuals). However, in real life, understanding the concept of assets and liabilities is not that simple.

Assets, by Webster's definition, are anything of material value or usefulness. While one's physically fit appearance is not an asset by this definition, a car, a house and a yacht is. But wait! Mr. Kiyosaki defines assets differently, and from the perspective of abundance, his is probably more significant.

An asset, for the author of best-selling book about the Two Dads, is something that will generate income. Therefore, a 12-bedroom house for a family of four qualifies to be a liability rather than an asset.

Just the same, owning a Boxster and a Z-4 at the same time is practically a liability. They maybe viewed as "excess assets" because their existence in your balance sheet does not bring income (or address a basic human need) to you.

Furthermore, having "excess assets" will compel you to spend in maintaining them. If they had no income-generating purpose to begin with, then the maintenance spent on them also add to your liabilities. Therefore, to maintain abundance, you have to ensure that all your "assets" are generating income or supports your existence as a human being. This principle is not really against letting you enjoy the money that you worked for. It is simply limiting the excesses (liabilities) that will not maintain your abundance and may even contribute to your scarcity.

Day in and day out, you know that your job and monthly income will not maintain your abundance. It can for the first month after your raise; and then new loans or credit card expenses come in and renders your pay short, just like the last time. So you start to think, how can I maintain my abundance?

You can by getting out of the rat race. Being tied up from 8 am to 5 pm (or even 8 am the next day!) will not allow you thinking time to grow the wealth that you currently have.

So, use your time wisely, while you are in the race.