The Ultimate Abundance Mindset
August 31, 2009 
18 Comments
You want to have the ultimate abundance mindset in life. This goes for business and it goes for your dating life.
Let’s say you work in sales. Every January 1st you always feel like you are broke because you’re “starting over” in a new year. You feel like you need to get that first sale of the year.
You compare yourself constantly to the previous year and you continually want to improve your statistics. You’re competitive. You want to make more money and be more successful than you were in the prior year.
We all do it. I do it too. I’ve done some things I almost don’t want to admit. I’ve held back checks that came in during the month of December and didn’t deposit them until January because I wanted to feel like I made more money in the new year.
You’re still paying the same amount of taxes on that money, but somehow by doing that it feels different mentally. In your head you think, “It’s January 2nd and I have cash in the bank already!”
Here is something that someone very financially successful taught me a long time ago: Don’t ever count what you’ve made this year; Count what you’ve made your entire adult life. If you do this, you will always feel abundance.
Instead of thinking “Wow, I’m having an off year,” think I’ve made $20 Million so far! You feel much more abundant when you do that. You don’t have to count and keep track of every little deal, and you don’t need to compare yourself to others.
This same abundance principle applies to your success in meeting the opposite sex. So many guys will think, “God am I having a bad week!” They could instead think something like “Wow, I’ve gone on 3,000 dates and slept with 250 women!” That is an abundance mentality and it will affect how you interact with people.
So think abundance every day. Walk around and feel that abundance.
Don’t think about how many people you have (or have not) met this month. Think about how many dates you’ve been on in your life.
When you do this, your energy will change and be open. What happens then is that every time you talk to someone of the opposite sex, you will talk to them with a confident open energy and without desperation.
If you have a rough streak where things aren’t happening the way you’d like, which happens to everyone, then you might have a tendency to put more pressure on yourself to change things. If you can concentrate on all the wonderful people you’ve met in your life, then you’ll radiate the power of an abundance mentality instead of radiating an air of desperation.
It’s no different than when a professional baseball player is in a slump. When a baseball player is having a 2-10 slump, the best players pull themselves out of that slump by thinking “Well, I’ve still got a .300 average!” If a player is in a 2-54 slump, you can always tell that he has just been thinking about how badly things have been going for him and he just keeps pressing. That never works.
In terms of meeting someone of the opposite sex, when you start pressing you need to take a “time out” and write down all your successes. Take a day off from chasing, and then go back the next day with a brand new attitude of how successful your entire life has been.
That’s how you do it. It’s all about the mindset. It’s all about having the ultimate abundance mindset.
This really helps a lot thanks a bunch!!!
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Hey David. Powerful blog. You think negative, thinking about all the things that are going wrong, or that you don’t have, and thats exactly what you will attract. Start thinking about what’s working, and what you have, you’ll attract more of it. Thanx David.
“They could instead think something like “Wow, I’ve gone on 3,000 dates and slept with 250 women!” That is an abundance mentality and it will affect how you interact with people.”
Love that quote, I want to be able to say that to myself someday.
I agree Jimmi that is a nice quote!
wow really powerful article today, I totally believe in the abundance and focusing on all the positive instead of slow days.
Jimmi- so you want to date 3000 woman some day and sleep with 250:0
I bet he does Clint, that will be a dream come true for him:)
wouldn’t it be a dream come true for you as well howe:0
Clint- just trying to give jimmi hard time that’s all:)
But i agree that the that is a strong solid mindset to have or to focus on the great things we have done already!
Today’s post was short, and get the message across so directly to the point that I am doing the exercise now, writing down all the great thing that happened to my life.
Thank you!
I love this David. Thank you. It totally put me in a different mindset. Have a great day
A positive mindset will go a long way. Perhaps this is one of the most important aspects of David’s teachings.
“This same abundance principle applies to your success in meeting the opposite sex. So many guys will think, “God am I having a bad week!” They could instead think something like “Wow, I’ve gone on 3,000 dates and slept with 250 women!” That is an abundance mentality and it will affect how you interact with people.
Don’t think about how many people you have (or have not) met this month. Think about how many dates you’ve been on in your life. ”
But David, what happens if you are a 32 year old virgin guy who has never kissed a woman? How is he supposed to think about abundance when life has shown him something very different?
Appreciation for what you have (& what you have accomplished). Not your feelings for what your neighbor has and you have not.
Accentuate the positive. Let its energy be the bounce in your steps.
John
is it because there never have been opportunities or is it because you have fears about being with a girl. There could be a whole list of fear and excuses you are telling yourself and thereby you are limiting yourself.
John,
If someone was a 32 year old virgin, I’d hope he can still have an abundance mentality by understanding that there’s plenty of girls out there waiting to meet him… but he has to give himself the chance… well… seize the opportunities when they knock on his door