This week’s post was inspired by a former coworker and current friend. He’s read and listened to several of my affirmation posts, and he asked a really interesting question:

“What if you already have enough? Or even more than enough?

And it made me pause.

Oftentimes, affirmations (and mine are no exception) come from a perspective of lack. In other words, we DON’T have something that we want, and we want to get it, so we write and say affirmations to help us gain and retain the mindset of achieving whatever it is that we want.

However, this is, as I said, very much coming from a perspective of lack, of not having. We make the mistake of looking for what we don’t have, and forgetting to see what we do have. Forgetting that we have so much already, often more than we need.

Another part of this is sometimes our perception that we are lacking on the outside is because of a perceived lack on the inside. We focus on wealth, on abundance, on love from an external source, and we really should look at the wealth, abundance, and love we already have inside us. Reminding ourselves that we are in fact enough, and more than enough, exactly as we are.

Perhaps, instead, we should consider what we already have, who we already are, and remember to enjoy what we have, and feel gratitude for who we are. Remember that in so very many ways we really do have more than enough. And we really are, as we are, already MORE than enough.

I hope these affirmations help to remind us of this.