Scarcity mentality is seeing the glass half empty and then defending your position vehemently.
It’s when you only buy the cheapest things at the store, even if you know they’ll break soon and you’ll have to buy them again.
It’s becoming attached to people and outcomes because you can’t fathom a world where there’s more than what’s currently in front of you.
It’s characterized mostly by the inability to dream, to consider a life where you’re working with the people you’ve always dreamed of working with, doing amazing work that makes a difference, investing in deep, rich relationships with folks that matter to you.
It’s when you eat everything on your plate as a rule because you can’t stomach throwing things away.
It’s a feeling that you’re not enough, that your work isn’t good enough, that you’re not worthy of spending time with those people you admire and want to be more like.
Scarcity mentality is a melancholy, a sadness, even, that you slide yourself into, and one that takes weeks, months, sometimes years to climb your way out of.
It’s the short-cut that keeps on taking. Ravenously so.
Scarcity mentality is a fear.
A fear with which you keep yourself small.
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