We each have the choice in any setting to step back and let go of the mind-set of scarcity. Once we let go of scarcity, we discover the surprising truth of sufficiency. By sufficiency, I don’t mean a quantity of anything. Sufficiency isn’t two steps up from poverty or one step short of abundance. It isn’t a measure of barely enough or more than enough. Sufficiency isn’t an amount at all. It is an experience, a context we generate, a declaration, a knowing that there is enough, and that we are enough.

In our relationship with money, it is using money in a way that expresses our integrity; using it in a way that expresses value rather than determines value. Sufficiency is not a message about simplicity or about cutting back and lowering expectations. Sufficiency doesn’t mean we shouldn’t strive or aspire. Sufficiency is an act of generating, distinguishing, making known to ourselves the power and presence of our existing resources, and our inner resrouces. Sufficiency is a context we bring forth from within that reminds us that if we look around us and within ourselves, we will find what we need. There is always enough.

I am not suggesting that there is ample water in the desert or food for the beggards in Bombay. I am saying that even in the presence of genuine scarcity of external resources, the desire and capacity for self-sufficiency are innate and enough to meet the challenges we face. It is precisely when we turn our attentions to these inner resources – in fact, only when we do that – that we can begin to see more clearly the sufficiency in us and available to us, and we can begin to generate effective, sustainable responses to whatever limitations of resources confront us. When we let go of the chase for more, and consciously examine and experience the resources we already have, we discover our resources are deeper than we knew or imagined. In the nourishment of our attention, our assets expand and grow.

-unknown

edit* Why did i decide to put this post up??

From time to time i hear people say “you guys are doing it! Living out your dream” But, they have no idea how tough times can get. This post above is about the rough times. Every successful person that i have been fortunate to encounter in the past 4 years have all had rough patches in there life, whether they were put on the shelf at their record company or they didn’t have the money to produce their designs. Everyone has overcome obstacles. If you haven’t been eating ramen and couch surfing while trying to juggle your dream, you fail to relaize that it is all a part of your goal. You must get down to the point where u have depleted all your resource to truly have the drive and hunger for success. You then discover how talented you truly are. If your down there already because you followed your dream. You’re a few steps away form success. Its true. Never give up. When good things happen, they never stop. Then you will truly have your dream.