We tend to approach life from the perspective of a lack.

What are we lacking?
What do we need?
What is missing?

This was useful biological programming when food resources were scarce and predators threatened us in every bush. But then we went ahead and made an entire hierarchy of needs based off that mentality.

The mentality of lacking quickly spirals into an obsession with always wanting more. Marketing preys on this idea and has successfully drilled the message into us that happiness is just one more purchase away.

At some point, however, we need to stop and look at our own lives and ask, where is my abundance?

What do I have in abundance that I couldn’t possibly need any more of and yet, don’t even recognize?

Is it compiling a grocery list with the question of, “What do we need/want?” instead of, “What can we afford?”

Is it trying to schedule visits with family and friends because the calendar is full with people you are visiting and that are visiting you?

Is it looking at your home and planning renovations, rather than looking at your bills and hoping you can stay another month?

If we just ask a few questions every morning of where our abundance is, we may come to realize how little we’re actually lacking.