How many times do we hear if only I had more time or if only I had more finances, I could… or If only the sun would shine. I could write many other illustrations, but I think that you get the point. We have been raised from childhood to believe there are have’s and have not’s in life Generally speaking the conclusion has been to work harder and longer to achieve so that we do not become a “have not.”

Under the surface the real issue is one of scarcity – there is not enough to go around, so I have to be there first to get mine! Author Lynn Twist in the book The Soul of Money writes; “This mantra of not enough carries the day and becomes a kind of default setting for our thinking about everything…it grows into the great justification for an unfulfilled life. It becomes the reason we can’t have what we want or become the person we would like to be…”

Author Twist writes about three toxic myths of scarcity. First of all there is the notion that there is never enough. This leads to a fear that drives us to do whatever is necessary to make sure that we are not the one without. Second of all there is the conclusion that more is better. Pitrium Sorokim, a Soviet dissident from the 1930 wrote about societies that move away from God tend to their lives with more and more things. Bigger, more of it, and more often seems to be modern day mantra. Thirdly is an attitude of hopelessness, helplessness, and being unequal in a world that will never change. In other words we do not lead our life we simply accept our life and call it FATE! The third area is one of the hardest to overcome. The less willing that we are to question beliefs about scarcity the more entrenched we become within a culture of scarcity.

The unraveling of a scarcity belief begins as soon as we adopt a different reference point. Our focus so many times is limited to our immediate circle of acquaintances and workmates. We measure ourselves against the grid and rhythm of life within that circle. However, when we view life from of a global perspective then we realize how abundantly blessed and how much excess we have. When we change our viewpoint to one of sufficiency – we believe that we have enough of everything.

Sufficiency is not an amount! It is not comparative at all. Instead sufficiency is an experience, a context we generate, a declaration knowing there is enough and that I am enough!