— INTRODUCTION —

WELCOME DEAR READER

I am so honored that you’ve chosen to purchase this book, and the fact that you did tells me a lot. It tells me you made a decision today, because hidden in the seemingly small act of deciding to read this was the bigger choice that you were actually making: the choice to explore a new reality for yourself, and to open yourself to new possibilities. So I just want to take a moment to applaud that decision. Because every single choice you make in that direction leads you closer to the life of your dreams.

You may have just thought, “Hey, why not, I’ll check it out, out of curiosity,” but even that was just the echo of a small but brilliant light in your soul, calling you to pick this book up and open the pages, so that the pages might open your heart and mind too. I like to think that in this way, when you chose this book, you chose you. You chose the direction your heart has been calling you toward, and that is no easy task in this world. But when you do that, you give others silent permission to do it too. So thanks for choosing YOU, and for taking this next step, however small, to lean further in the direction of your dreams.

This book does not read like your average “10 Steps” type of book, but it does contain the core principles for shifting your life from scarcity to abundance, as I see it. Most books that suggest a number of steps or shifts to help you change your life are about actions, and about what you do—but this book is not about doing, this book is about being. It’s about the way you inhabit the world, and the lens that you’re looking at it through. Because it is that foundation that shifts the world you see and live in. If you work on, apply, and most importantly practice the mindset shifts in this book, your entire life and/or business will change in ways that will often leave you in utter disbelief.

Because you see, the truth is: You are magic.

And I think you already know this on some level. On some deep-down level you’ve always suspected it, but you’ve forgotten it (or had it beat out of you by the events of your life). And I think that’s why you picked up this book. My hope with this book is to help you get that magic back, or rather, to get the KNOWING of your magic and your power back, because it’s REAL. And if you want to know the truth…it’s actually realer then you or me. It is the very essence of you, the formless, timeless, reality of you, and it has never moved from your center. It just gets clouded over with muck from time to time. The shapes of you may come and go, but the essence of you remains…and that essence is the creative intelligence of the universe, unfurling itself as petals like you, ever-blooming in infinite ways.

I invite you to take a moment to step way outside your normal box of thinking as you read this book. Every time you are tempted to compare it to your current reality, or the current reality of the world you see (in order to debunk it and make it not possible for you) I want you to remind yourself that your current reality is not the one you’re trying to re-create! The old beliefs created the old ways and the current world and reality that you now see. And just as they did that, so too will the new beliefs create the new way.

To create a new reality, both in yourself and in your world, you must begin to imagine beyond your current borders and limitations. And you must suspend your disbelief in order to do so. Everything that is solid and real to you now was once nothing more than an idea. An idea that no one believed in except the visionary who held and committed to that idea. And then it came into being…and then everyone else agreed it was real. This same process applies to your life, your business, and your money. You will doubt this process, and that is totally normal, but you will come to trust it more and more as you practice it, and as you experience your own magic and miracles in your own ways, both big and small.

All you have to do is decide, and dig in.

So let’s dig in, shall we?

Like you, I was raised in this world that operates on the principle of scarcity. I was made to believe there were limited resources, limited possibilities, limited money, limited power, and limited everything, and that I must grow up to be more, and do more, so that I could secure my piece of the pie, get ahead, and be safe. From the time I was very small, I understood this was a fight. A war that humans have been waging since forever, and still are. I understood that as an adult I would have to fight for my security and survival, all the days of my life, and that I’d be mostly on my own and unsupported in a hard, cruel world while doing so.

This was the unspoken law and the unwritten rule. The rule of the land no one said out loud explicitly, but IMPLIED with every action, look, and casual conversation about work or money. It’s whispered constantly beneath all the noise like an imperceptible static: “There is not enough.” And with that, also the immutable understanding: You are not enough.

Why? Because we’re taught that we need to somehow now create this nebulous, constantly morphing “enough-ness” by being more, and doing more, to secure our ever-lovin’ pile, even though by all accounts there will still and never be enough! Even though the very idea there could ever be enough is categorically rejected by the entire society that’s telling you to get it. And that even if you manage to secure it, it could always be quickly ripped out from under you, which is why even “enough” cannot be enough. Not in this world as we’ve known it. And this is why the feeling that you are not enough is so ingrained—because you’re supposed to somehow get this impossible-to-get and ever-shifting enough-ness, and you can’t, so it feels as though you’re constantly coming up short.

All of this is quietly absorbed by our little minds before we even know how to tie our shoes. We don’t yet know we know it, but we know it. We are already losing at a game we didn’t even want to play. In this game we have to compete, fight, compare, and defend. And even if we win, we’ll be scared and feel secretly, deeply alone.

So I am here to propose a better game. Or rather, I am here to propose that you can choose to opt out of that old game, and simply not play it at all. That you do actually have a choice, that you can instead play the game of life you were born here knowing, but quickly forgot…the one where we CREATE instead of compete, CONNECT instead of compare, and DIRECT instead of defend. There is just one caveat with this game: You will not be able to play it unless you are willing to let go of the idea that you are nothing more than a totally random temporary bag of bones and flesh. If you are committed to that view, then you might play with the idea of abundance, but you’ll be stuck in scarcity’s unwinnable game. Because if you believe that you and all things are nothing more than finite and limited structures, you will simply be unable to access the infinite within you, which is what true abundance requires.

The good news is, even science accepts that there’s no seeable end to the universe and that we are inextricably part of it. So whether you are already full-woo or just getting your feet wet in opening your mind to the existential questions, you can access an abundance mindset through whatever lens you find most helpful to you.

I personally have fluctuated wildly on my quest for the truth in this life, but the one thing that has remained ever-constant is my seeing that what you focus on, expands.

This was as true when I totally shut down any idea of spirituality in my life as it was when I went full-woo. In this way I now see that there are really no definitive absolute truths in this realm, just the truths that are made real in our experience by our attention to them. In the simplest terms: We get to choose our own truths, and those truths then become self-evident. This happens whether or not they are true for another, and that is our ultimate freedom as creators.

I believe it is part of our evolution to see this freedom, and to allow the wildly different-seeming realities of other beings while still honoring and respecting our own. The key to this is knowing that we are free to create our own realities, regardless of whether others will agree with ours, support ours,...