Mindset may not affect the outcome, but it does affect experience

If it’s true that we never start from scratch, finding the trace is simply a matter of intention and attention.

Digging around to see what’s already in your possession that can be used to your advantage.

The challenge with this approach is, it requires optimism and vulnerability.

First, we have to believe we are never unpartnered in the pursuit of our dreams. And second, we have to trust that the cooperation of unseen forces will help us achieve them.

That’s hard for some people. Particularly those who hold a scarcity mindset. The mere idea that they’re not starting from scratch, that the world is an abundant place where dreams are had a followed and it wants to support them, that’s a bitter pill to swallow.

But as much as people disagree with my optimistic opinion about possibility, this mindset works for me. Not because it increases my success, but because increases my field of vision, and that allows me to better notice the opportunities that lead to success.

Reminds me of a fascinating interview between a surgeon and a cancer survivor. Recounting his diagnosis experience, the patient said this:

If you have a bad attitude about your disease, odds are, you won’t get better, because you won’t do the necessary research on the resources that will make you better. You’ll never find the solution that leads to the solution. That’s the physical and procedural manifestation of a bad attitude. Mindset may not affect the outcome, but it does affect the experience.

My recommendation is, force yourself to believe that you never start with nothing. Trust the trace that is already there, and let its spectrality work in your favor.

The canvas is not as white as it looks.

Which of your dreams did you abandon because you thought they were blank pages?