Welcome. I'm Connor Beaton, and today we're going to talk about what scarcity actually looks like

and how to start to overcome it, how to start to move into a more abundance-based mindset.

So if you're in the personal development world or in the self-help world at all, or you've

done some therapy or done some positive psychology or read about it,city can take on a whole bunch of different meanings, right?

In the spiritual world, it's a karmic issue and it's something to do with your soul.

In the personal development world, it can be a scarcity mindset, a lacking mindset, a fear-based

mindset.

You can be for some people specifically to do with money and it can be about not having enough

money or worrying that you're not going to have enough or not save enough and so scarcity can also

often get talked about in this very um just in this very vague way where people are like I okay

I get it I get the concept I get the, but I don't really understand what it really

looks like. So I'm going to share a little bit of an example with you. So when I was 16, I got my very

first credit card. My mom worked at the bank and she thought it would be good for me to start

building up my credit as a 16 year old. And after having the credit card for a few months,

I remember like noticing that I could never pay the bloody thing off. And the funny thing was, like, my balance was only like 500 bucks, right? As a 16-year-old kid, it's all that you should really have because I was working at a gas station pumping gas as a 16-year-old in northern Alberta. And I don't think I was making, you know, I think I was making like $10 an hour or something like that or $9 an hour.

I didn't even remember what it was, but it was something pretty low.

And so I just noticed I could never pay off this freaking credit card.

And so I went back to my mom and I said, hey, like, you know, I love this. I love that I have my own freedom. You know, I have my job. I have my car at this time, which I bought for 500 bucks, not on my credit card. I actually bought it cash. And, you know, I said, I'm starting to get this hang of money. But the one thing that I can't seem to figure out is the credit card.

I can't seem to pay it off.

And she says, oh, don't worry about that.

That's just a part of life.

And in that moment, I didn't know any better, right?

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