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Orange You Glad You're You?

Because That's Where Your Real Abundance Lies.

By Teresa Romain


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In using this "abundance seed" analogy in previous columns,
I've done so as a way of illustrating an important abundance
principle in your business and your life:

If your starting point or "seed" is scarcity, you will
continue to experience or "grow" scarcity--possibly even a
"scarcity tree"! Conversely, if your starting point or
"seed" is abundance, you will grow an "abundance tree."
After all, if you planted an apple seed, you'd expect an
apple tree to grow from it and not an orange tree, right?

Let's expand on the analogy.

You water your seed regularly and soon it begins to sprout
underground. At this point in the seed's growth, even while
it's still growing invisibly underground in the form of a
tiny sprout, that sprout is nevertheless 100 percent apple.
You wouldn't say it is "not apple enough." You would
recognize that, at this stage in its growth and development,
what "100 percent apple" looks like is a tiny sprout. Your
sprout continues to grow; eventually a tiny shoot breaks the
surface of the ground. Again, this shoot is still 100
percent apple, even if it is not yet a full-grown apple
tree.

In fact, at any stage in its growth, it is 100 percent
apple; that 100 percent apple-ness looks different at every
stage.



You Are All Apple!

The same is true for you. You have an abundance seed within
you: the internal qualities of abundance that you already
possess--qualities such as courage, creativity, generosity,
openness, consistency, playfulness, and others. As you begin
to recognize and express your courage, creativity,
generosity, openness, playfulness and consistency (among
others) through action, you begin growing that seed. It
sprouts and then puts out shoots through the soil, and
continues on its journey of growth.

Even if your seed has not yet grown into a full-size
abundance tree, you are still, at every point along the way,
100 percent abundant--just as the apple sprout or apple
shoot is always 100 percent apple.

Now: if it would make no sense to say that an apple sprout
or a tiny young apple sapling is "not apple enough," why
would you even consider saying the same thing about
yourself? That is exactly what people are doing when they
speak (or think) thoughts such as, "I'm not courageous
enough...I'm not creative enough / consistent enough / open
or generous or abundant enough..."!



The Tragedy of Apples and Oranges

The apple seed you planted was born or created to grow into
a beautiful and abundant apple tree that will eventually
produce a breathtaking display of apple blossoms each
spring, followed by a harvest of crispy, juicy, tasty apples
in the early fall.

What would it be like if that apple seed got it into its
head that it wanted to become an orange tree?

As soon as it was planted, your apple seed would begin
looking ahead to its future, and visualizing itself
becoming--an orange tree! It would do its daily
affirmations: "I am becoming a beautiful orange tree." It
might even learn to put those in the present tense: "I AM an
orange tree!" It would take classes and listen to cassette
tapes on how to become an orange tree. Its every waking
thought would be all about becoming the best orange tree it
could be...and it would work hard and do everything it
thought it needed to do in order to become an orange
tree....

And all the while, this apple seed has sprouted, shot above
the ground and is growing up to become a full-grown--orange
tree? Of course not. It's an apple tree.

How happy and fulfilled is your
apple-seed-becoming-apple-tree going to be, after its
tireless, committed, monumental effort to become an orange
tree--and its realization that this effort has completely
"failed"? Not very fulfilled at all, right?

Rather than seeing its own magnificent beauty and abundance
as the apple tree it was born to be, all it will see is its
abysmal failure at being an orange tree.

The sad fact is, it will never truly experience the
abundance of being an apple tree: it will experience only
the scarcity of not being an orange tree!

When it comes to abundance, it's important to realize that
just like every other person on the earth, you were born and
created to be abundant--and at the same time, the specific
type of abundance for which you were created may be "apple,"
while for another person it may be "orange." For yet
another, it may be "avocado" or "oak." The secret to lasting
joy, fulfillment and abundance is to let yourself grow into
becoming the abundant tree you were created to be--not to
try and become something else.

If you were born an apple seed, you will be happiest and
most abundant growing into a beautiful apple tree--even if
your seed happens to have been planted in the midst of an
orange grove. The effort to do otherwise would lead only to
frustration, overwhelm and scarcity!

This month, instead of looking around you for pictures of
what being abundant looks like--or "should" look like, or
"could" look like--look within yourself to see what it does
look like! What kind of abundance tree were you created to
be?