I need to take a moment and write something nice today. Mostly because I have been making WOO HOO noises and crotch chopping in my office for like an hour after reading that James Gunn is no longer in charge of squeezing money out of my childhood in exchange for pushing everything into a Guardians of the Galaxy script.
Sure, a chunk of people were happy with Lanterns, but these are also the same people who killed beer and Applebee’s.
Now that there is return fire, cultural warfare is not so funny, is it, Millenials? Gen X remembers…
Okay, okay, I will stop, or the cycle of violence will never end.
I am back. Imagine me going away for an hour and doing some kind of “Movie about Rocky The Movie” thing, punching a bunch of meat in a freezer, and getting it all out of my system.
I need to rebalance my karma load today and say some nice things somehow.
So let’s just do it!
One of the lessons I learned on the road to leadership comes to us from a book written by Peter Diamandis: Abundance. I have affiliate-linked it here, and it is one of the best books you could read if you have not read it yet. Not just because I will receive an Abundance of nickels from Jeff Bezos if you all buy it, and also… It will help you understand a mindset shift that we need to have as a society.
I strongly recommend you read this book; it was transformational for me, and also helped me to understand the nature of some of the battles that were thrust upon me by the world of business.
The war between scarcity and abundance is almost as cosmic as those “good vs evil” or “law vs chaos” stories you go to see in the movies, and is, in fact, more important because, by the very nature of scarcity, what it means is that anyone who is self-selecting into that mindset is going to have more than abundant people, at least in the short term. This irritates me because it is quite easy to go to someone who doesn’t have much to lose and say “Something something abundance!” and have them on board. When you go and say “Something something abundance!” to someone who has amassed ridiculous wealth, they just assume you should work harder or that you are asking for a handout.
In about half of the sentences above, I should add that our good friend Grammarly has been pushing me to put the word “but” into these sentences. My abundance mindset has helped me to avoid using that word, instead, bridging ideas together with an “and.”
So after a day of being excited about the Gunn going off, I am rebalancing my karma load by sharing some mindset-shifting advice.
Next time you are in a situation where you can debate things, or have to disagree, take that ugly fat “But” out of the conversation (haha, fat But), and instead do a little “Yes and” magic.
That’s it. That’s the whole post. Thank you for indulging my DCU schadenfreude, and I appreciate you listening to the actually valuable parts of this post too.
