Yesterday I wrote a blog post about how scarcity is all around us – our choice is to allow it in or not. Some people, I realized aren’t clear what I mean by scarcity, so I thought I should define it here.
Scarcity thinking is fear-based and assumes there isn’t enough for everyone. For me to win, you have to lose. Abundance thinking, in contrast, assumes there is more than enough for everyone – we can all win – and allows you to find win-win-win solutions for all.
In yesterday’s post, I spoke of how our house sold in a day. Scarcity thinking says we under-priced it and lost money. Abundance thinking says we put a fair price on our house, we got what we wanted and the buyer got what he wanted, all due to clarity of intention.
It’s strange that another example of scarcity just popped into my e-mail box – a letter from the community association for the community we’re leaving. The kids from this community will be going to a new school in September. In this letter, someone from the association suggested that the residents boycott the (old) school’s Spring Fair, and its requests for donations since the kids will be going to a different school this year. “Why should we help a school we won’t be benefiting from?” is this person’s argument.

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This, to me, is such blatant scarcity thinking. Why help this school when we won’t get any further benefit from it? There’s not enough to help this one now and the other school next year.
What about all the years kids from our community have been going to the (old) school and getting benefit from it? My son and my two stepsons went to this school and it’s been wonderful for them. Why would I want to take away from that school when it has given such wonderful gifts to our kids?
And what are we talking about? A few items? A few dollars? Do we really have that little that a few dollars will hurt us?
A boycott of a Spring Fair. I just shake my head at this type of thinking. Is this what we really want to teach our kids?
That’s my 2 cents. What do you think?
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