Steve Jobs’ resignation seems to generating a lot of scarcity thinking instead of abundance mentality.  People seem to be either wringing their hands in angst or looking for that next deep black hole for Apple.

I have read a plethora of stories and many of them looked to the scarcity of him leaving the office.  Unfortunately, very few looked to the abundance of the future. However, I did find one somewhat positive article discussing succession leadership.

Yes his resignation was news, significant news as he has been the front line leader and visionary for Apple.  However why not look to the future with a positive mental attitude instead of wallowing in the muck and mire of negativity?

We should not be surprised by the scarcity thinking as human beings are negatively conditioned.  The mass media regardless of ideology (left or right) continues to focus on all the negative because “bad news” sells newspapers, radio spots and TV commercials. Good news or abundance mentality (positive mental attitude) appears to keep at least the media pocket poor.

Most US drivers have experienced the “curiosity crawl.”  This is where traffic comes to an almost standstill as drivers crawl by a recent accident with their necks craning with curiosity to see “the accident.” This is scarcity thinking.

How many people wake up each morning arms wide open to embrace the day?  From my experience far fewer than there should be. The “can’t do it attitudes” appears to be in far greater numbers that “can do.”

Each day presents new opportunities to make today better than yesterday.  However if the blinders of scarcity thinking are covering our eyes, we can only see darkness to our sides and the future path looks much as the same as the path of the past.

The last several days have yield incredible abundance for me.  And this morning one of my clients who is a virtual assistant sent me an email with the following updates as to her results:

And now the good news:

• A Clients – 3
• B Clients – 6
• C Clients – 18

Acquire 7 new C Clients and I reach my goal or acquire 2 new B Clients and I reach my goal or acquire 1 new A client and I reach my goal.

My goal – $100k/year biz.  Rock on with the coaching strategy.  Been awful busy with collections on a couple “non-payers” and big projects and reading your posts on FB and Twitter on a regular basis.

This client’s abundance mentality has her reaching further and securing greater results than ever before. She hired me for two reasons:

1. She was tired of the status quo
2. She wanted a new sustainable future

During that process, she has left the scarcity thinking that sometimes overtook her daily beliefs (attitudes) and now her actions support her abundance mentality.

Henry Ford, Thomas Edison and Mother Theresa were just a few historical figures who continually embraced a positive mental attitude and demonstrated abundance mentality. One of my favorite quotes is by Ford who said:

If you think you can or you think you cannot, either way you are right.

As you finish the work week and look to the weekend, remember the Little Red Engine that said:

I think I can, I think I can, I think I can!

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