How to Never Set Scarcity Goals and Punch Through Your Walls!
In life at any given moment in one of two positions, we're either in a scarcity mindset or we're in an abundance mindset.
Anytime we're in scarcity with money, fitness, women, or anything we might value, we tend to set what I like to call "scarcity goals". These goals sound a lot like this:
If I could just make an extra $3,000 per month..
If I could just get a girlfriend that loves me.
If I could just lose that extra 10 pounds.
If you notice the main point of these goals is always having "just enough". You're so focused on your problems, they're so heavy, limiting and crushing to you, that you just think "if I just have this I could feel good again!".
The problem with scarcity is that it creates more scarcity. An object in a downward momentum will likely continue going down. Abundance is the opposite, if you were in abundance it would be even easier to get more.
So how do you transition from your current scarcity position into abundance? By setting massive, exciting goals that are way further beyond the scarcity.
An example of abundance goals:
I want to make an insane amount of money!
I want to have complete relationship abundance!
I want to get in the best shape of my entire life!
Can you feel the excitement just by reading these goals? I know I sure got excited writing them! Because that's what abundance does, it makes you feel good, right now.
The main reason you're not seeing these goals right now is because of "the wall", yes, that wall. Whatever you believe is blocking you. Maybe it's the financial situation that you feel prevents you from being happy or starting your own business, maybe it's the crushing depression, sadness and low self-esteem caused by being lonely.
Look, whatever it is that's blocking you, you have to admit that you have a wall. You're just like the homeless guy sitting and asking for change; "If I offer you right now to eiter to teach you how to make a million dollars or give you $100, what do you choose?" as the homeless guy will most likely reply "Oh! Give me the $100, and then can you teach me how to become a millionaire?".
You have to make a choice, do you want the $100 or do you want to become a millionaire? Do you want to keep punching at the wall and hopefully break it one day, or do you want to run through the wall like hulk and see how far you can go?
The biggest mental block we have to setting these exciting abundance goals is thinking that we can't start running until we break the wall, but the wall is only an illusion we created. It's extremely persistent and feels real, but it has no mass, an illusion is only an illusion, no matter how real it appears.
We believe that we can't focus on the $10,000,000 goal until we solve the $2,000 goal, or that we can't focus on abundance with women until we just get that one girl, or that there's no way we could focus on peak fitness until we drop these 10 frickin' pounds.
What you're probably missing in this situation is that habit that's related to the goals. If you aim at $10,000,000, or 10 girlfriends, or 100 pounds, you'll likely set very big daily goals, meaning that you'll take a massive freakin amount of action.
Massive abundance goals are what gives us that extra passion and fuel we need to take massive, disciplined daily actions and then some more! Do you think that you'll have the same horsepower and fuel if you go into your itsy-bitsy, scared tiny goal?
Let's use simple math:
"I just want to make an extra $1,000" (scarcity goal) = a lot of stress, a lot of worry, constantly asking "is this enough action?", "when is it enough?", "when will this end?". You take tiny actions aimed at 20% improvement in your situation, even the end result isn't that worth it. In-short you bang at the wall and take a lot of effort for something very small and unsatisfying.
"I want to triple my income!" (abundance goal) = excited, jacked up, enthusiastic, constantly asking "how can I do more!?", "how can I get there faster!?", "I hope this will never end!". Because you aimed big you go big and take massive action, during the process of taking massive action you take so much action that without noticing you actually break your scarcity goal in a matter of weeks automatically!
As you can see, your reluctance to aim further than the wall is what stops you at the wall. When you aim big you build up so much momentum running that you naturally go through the wall without even noticing.
Focus on scarcity goals and you'll stay a sorry slave in scarcity, focus on abundant goals and you'll take the right levels of actions to get more of what you want then you could ever imagined you could.
Just make sure that when you set the abundance goals you completely let go of scarcity thinking, don't think "oh yeah! if I just aim further than the wall THEN I'll get my scarcity goal achieved!", **** the scarcity goal, scratch it out completely. It doesn't exist anymore, poof, gone. Sayonara. I want you to thrive from now on. So go and thrive.
Good luck,
Robby.
Anytime we're in scarcity with money, fitness, women, or anything we might value, we tend to set what I like to call "scarcity goals". These goals sound a lot like this:
If I could just make an extra $3,000 per month..
If I could just get a girlfriend that loves me.
If I could just lose that extra 10 pounds.
If you notice the main point of these goals is always having "just enough". You're so focused on your problems, they're so heavy, limiting and crushing to you, that you just think "if I just have this I could feel good again!".
The problem with scarcity is that it creates more scarcity. An object in a downward momentum will likely continue going down. Abundance is the opposite, if you were in abundance it would be even easier to get more.
So how do you transition from your current scarcity position into abundance? By setting massive, exciting goals that are way further beyond the scarcity.
An example of abundance goals:
I want to make an insane amount of money!
I want to have complete relationship abundance!
I want to get in the best shape of my entire life!
Can you feel the excitement just by reading these goals? I know I sure got excited writing them! Because that's what abundance does, it makes you feel good, right now.
The main reason you're not seeing these goals right now is because of "the wall", yes, that wall. Whatever you believe is blocking you. Maybe it's the financial situation that you feel prevents you from being happy or starting your own business, maybe it's the crushing depression, sadness and low self-esteem caused by being lonely.
Look, whatever it is that's blocking you, you have to admit that you have a wall. You're just like the homeless guy sitting and asking for change; "If I offer you right now to eiter to teach you how to make a million dollars or give you $100, what do you choose?" as the homeless guy will most likely reply "Oh! Give me the $100, and then can you teach me how to become a millionaire?".
You have to make a choice, do you want the $100 or do you want to become a millionaire? Do you want to keep punching at the wall and hopefully break it one day, or do you want to run through the wall like hulk and see how far you can go?
The biggest mental block we have to setting these exciting abundance goals is thinking that we can't start running until we break the wall, but the wall is only an illusion we created. It's extremely persistent and feels real, but it has no mass, an illusion is only an illusion, no matter how real it appears.
We believe that we can't focus on the $10,000,000 goal until we solve the $2,000 goal, or that we can't focus on abundance with women until we just get that one girl, or that there's no way we could focus on peak fitness until we drop these 10 frickin' pounds.
What you're probably missing in this situation is that habit that's related to the goals. If you aim at $10,000,000, or 10 girlfriends, or 100 pounds, you'll likely set very big daily goals, meaning that you'll take a massive freakin amount of action.
Massive abundance goals are what gives us that extra passion and fuel we need to take massive, disciplined daily actions and then some more! Do you think that you'll have the same horsepower and fuel if you go into your itsy-bitsy, scared tiny goal?
Let's use simple math:
"I just want to make an extra $1,000" (scarcity goal) = a lot of stress, a lot of worry, constantly asking "is this enough action?", "when is it enough?", "when will this end?". You take tiny actions aimed at 20% improvement in your situation, even the end result isn't that worth it. In-short you bang at the wall and take a lot of effort for something very small and unsatisfying.
"I want to triple my income!" (abundance goal) = excited, jacked up, enthusiastic, constantly asking "how can I do more!?", "how can I get there faster!?", "I hope this will never end!". Because you aimed big you go big and take massive action, during the process of taking massive action you take so much action that without noticing you actually break your scarcity goal in a matter of weeks automatically!
As you can see, your reluctance to aim further than the wall is what stops you at the wall. When you aim big you build up so much momentum running that you naturally go through the wall without even noticing.
Focus on scarcity goals and you'll stay a sorry slave in scarcity, focus on abundant goals and you'll take the right levels of actions to get more of what you want then you could ever imagined you could.
Just make sure that when you set the abundance goals you completely let go of scarcity thinking, don't think "oh yeah! if I just aim further than the wall THEN I'll get my scarcity goal achieved!", **** the scarcity goal, scratch it out completely. It doesn't exist anymore, poof, gone. Sayonara. I want you to thrive from now on. So go and thrive.
Good luck,
Robby.
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