Speaker B argues that abundance is personal, not material, and that people often stay stuck because they unconsciously benefit from their situation. Stop making excuses and recognize you have the power to create the life you want.
It's all intense. It's different, different levels of intensity, but it's all intense for a lot of people right now. Sure. And taking the idea that we can change that dynamic, that we can actually focus On what we really want, what steps do you think that people could take in order to do that?
Well, the first step everybody needs to take is stop saying why they can't or why things just are how they are. I mean, I suppose that we all know somebody in our life who's lived a, by normal societal standards, a pretty beige life, and they're miserable. And then you probably know somebody who's been through some pretty awful stuff, and they are the most joyous, pleasant, grateful, happy people you've ever met. And you kind of go, well, how is that possible? Like, how can you have— at least live a beige life and be so miserable? But this person has come from some pretty Agreeably tragic things, and they're doing pretty awesome. Now, most people have some level of baggage or a can't or reason why or an unconscious fear. But the first step is to recognize that, you know, I believe that we all have this extraordinary ability inside of us, and the sooner we access it, the easier it is to create the most abundant life that you want. Now, abundance doesn't mean money or people or friends or material. It's whatever that means to you. Abundance is very specific and individual to the person. So I think, like, most easily answer your question is to say we have to stop giving ourselves excuses and start living our lives at cause and recognize how empowered we truly can become. And I know it's a scary thing to realize that we all have the ability to be empowered. So there's some people who wish they could but don't know how. And there's other people who— there's something I call a secondary benefit. There's often a secondary benefit to not improving a situation or not changing a situation.
Mm-hmm.
Because maybe then you don't have the excuse or the reason or You can't possibly fail, or, or whatever it is for the individual. Was that a—
