Abundant Attitudes

  The Day I Realised the Story Was the Problem How I stopped explaining my life and started fixing it There comes a point when you realise you’re not exhausted from doing too much — you’re exhausted from explaining everything. Explaining why things didn’t work. Explaining what went wrong. Explaining who or what is responsible. For months, I had been living inside a story that felt real, justified, and convincing. Parts of it were true. Parts of it weren’t. But all of it distracted me from the one thing that actually mattered: identifying the real problem and doing the work to fix it. The day I stopped feeding the story was the day I finally had the energy to face the challenge. The problem itself was simple, even if it was uncomfortable to admit. We couldn’t generate money fast enough, and we couldn’t access money when we needed it. That was it. Everything else — the doubt, the fear, the frustration, the sense of being unlucky or blocked — grew from the story we built around th...

This subject is sure to rattle a few cages (and it is meant too)  My version of poverty isn’t what you see on TV with starving groups of people and Unicef raising money for their cause... OH NO… My poverty was my mind set and my approach to life. . Now if I was the same person from 10 years ago writing this blog I would never have thought there was much wrong with me. I worked hard, made money, got the job done, but was continually in a state of anger, negativity and blame. (I can remember yelling at myself one day in utter frustration telling myself to shut up and for a brief moment it worked) After long stints away working, I would come home and hide in my house and see no one and wollow in self pity and anger..(not a very approachable sort of bloke) By accident I turned on the TV (and it worked) and Tony Robbins was talking about The Mental Disease of Negativity and how if you let it it will control your life.. He went on to say most people don’t even know why they live in an...