An Abundant Mindset

If you have a scarcity mindset, you will unconsciously start feeling like a victim!. However, embracing the abundance mindset will give you the mindset of a victor!

In this episode, Gary and Naren discuss why it’s important to embrace the abundance mindset and not fall into the downward funnel of scarcity! Gary also provides interesting examples of the abundance-scarcity paradox. He also explains how important it is to read Peter H. Diamandis’s book “Abundance” to understand more about this concept.

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• 00:00:50 – Introduction to the episode
• 00:01:16 – Quick Announcement (Masterclass Workshop – 3 Hours of CE)
• 00:04:12 – Backstory to the listeners – Gary’s Coaching Program – Book Club
• 00:04:49 – Gary talks about Peter H. Diamandis and his book “Abundance”.
• 00:05:45 – Why all of us should embrace the abundant mindset
• 00:06:33- Why Gary chose this book for his coaching clients
• 00:08:05 – Why is the abundance mindset important for less insurance dependence podcast listeners?
• 00:08:19 – The Abundance-Scarcity Paradox
• 00:09:39 – Another example of the abundance-scarcity paradox experienced by dentists
• 00:11:12 – Connection between scarcity and victim mindset
• 00:12:18 – The transition from good to great (Good to Great book by James C. Collins)
• 00:13:18 – Gary provides another example of abundance and scarcity
• 00:14:14 – Insurance companies aren’t funding your retirement
• 00:14:28 – Gary advises listeners to be more mindful

thank you Gary and I love today’s topic I think you both you and I are fans of you know the abundance thinking versus scarcity thinking, and I think today’s topic talks about you know the few practice owners who are abundant thinkers and who always have the best year every year and then there are a lot of people who struggle. So, I I’m really can’t wait to get started Gary

yeah, you know let me give a little bit of back backstory to our, our, listeners. Uh, one of the things we do with our clients in thriving dentist coaching is we do book club where I’ll select a book and we, we, do it together you know as myself and our clients and we do it over zoom, zoom, meeting. We all read or listen to the book and then over a zoom meeting I do two things. I talk about what we learned in the book and then more importantly we talk about what we can apply in our practices from this. So, it’s a really useful way to just embrace the concept of lifelong learning. How can we learn, and Peter Diamandis is the author of the book abundance so if you haven’t heard of that name I’ll introduce you to the name Peter Diamandis he’s a remarkable individual he wrote two New York times bestsellers the first one is the book called abundance single title single word title abundance and in the book he talks about scientifically why by the way he’s a Harvard trained MD Harvard trained MD. Now Naren I’ve had the privilege of meeting peter and I can tell you from my interaction I had with him face to face, he’s a bright dude 

Yes

he’s just come out, he’s also very genuine, very humble, but bright, you can kind of just in a matter of short period time you get the idea that he’s got some horsepower and I think that would be confirmed by, by, having a Harvard MD. Uh I don’t think just anybody gets Harvard MD right, but he talks about in the book why scientifically there’s evidence why all of us should embrace an abundant mindset. The opposite of abundance is scarcity

right and, and, scarcity really is, is, one of those things that I’ve noticed will accidentally kick in for people sometimes. Not intentionally but kind of subconsciously kick in, you know and, and, so Peter talks about in the book how to catch yourself when you happen to be in that cycle of scarcity and break out of it, you know break out of it but he gives scientific evidence  for why, you know living in the 21st century all of us should have an abundant mindset, and he backs it up with science. It’s not just you know don’t worry be happy, but it’s backed up with science. So, I chose the book for a very specific reason, and I chose the book for our clients because I felt like right now, the truth, is there’s a lot of negativities in the world right now

right 

Would you agree with that Naren?

absolutely there’s a lot of negativities, a lot of you know infighting all kinds of you know

there’s all kinds of certainly all we have to do is turn on the news either flavour 

Yes

it doesn’t matter what flavour and, and, it’s just going to be a parade of negative news. Uh Peter introduced a saying to me in that book abundance and one of the things he suggests in the book is turn off the news turn it off 

Yes

do it do a news moratorium because he said you know he introduced me to the saying if it bleeds it leads. Now think about that for a minute Naren, do you get that concept, if it bleeds it leads  

Yes, if it bleeds, I lead, so you have to create chaos in in the form of news, so people pay attention 

because now you get more viewers you get more eyeballs

Yeah

you get more advertisers it works for the whole process 

yeah 

  So, I wanted to introduce this book to our listeners because I felt like we needed an infusion of, of, abundance instead of a scarcity mindset. I’m already getting you know this is coming up in our book club actually coming up but I’m already getting great comments from our clients saying. I’m so glad I read that book it, it, literally snapped me out of it you know and I’m now daily intentionally working on cultivating an abundance mindset, but I wanted to bring it specifically to our listeners of the less insurance dependence podcast, because it applies to all of you and it applies to your journey in reducing  insurance and dropping PPO plans it applies very specifically and again let’s, let’s, operate on the continuum  or let me call it a paradox it’s the abundance scarcity paradox. We can either be on one side the abundant side or we can be on the scarcity side and let’s get very specific about how that relates to our listeners and your, your, journey of dropping PPO plans. If you’re in the scarcity mindset one of the things you think is I’m going to lose all my patients. Instantly that thought is scarcity 

yes 

It is flat out scarcity and again I’m not being critical of you if you happen to feel that way, I’m not being critical of your feelings. I’m just saying step back and observe yourself, objectively, and if you’re if one of things you say is oh, I’d, I’d, I have 80, 90 percent of my patients are PPO patients and I’d lose all of them that’s scarcity thinking. The abundant mindset is not to stick your head in the sand and say well I’m not going to lose any patients because that’s simply not true you’re going to lose some but the abundance mindset says whatever I lose I can replace I can replace. I could replace delta as my marketing agent with google, as my marketing agent, and whatever I lose I could replace. That’s the difference between abundance and scarcity. Abundance and scarcity. Another example that doctors are experiencing right now related to abundance, abundance, and scarcity, is I’m understaffed, I can’t find the right team members, and, and, that’s, that’s, scarcity again. Well keep looking, keep looking. There’re people, how many do you need and how big is your practice. How many it’s not like you’re hiring 500 people or a thousand or however many you know a big company would have

yeah 

you’re looking for, you know, maybe you’re filling one or two spots. I can’t find them that scarcity thinking is a switch and say I haven’t found them yet, you know you can actually just switch your mindset with a single word. I haven’t been able to find a replacement hygienist yet, but what does that imply Naren, the word yet implies that you’re not giving up 

yeah, I mean it’s like you have a choice right I mean I’m just imagining a lot of people who are my friends like who graduated with me from university. Uh I think I’m the only entrepreneur like in the whole group  like  I think I had like 50 friends who were close to me like at least in my cohort, we took the same classes we took the same degree, and  and many of them even today if they don’t have a job they are in trouble you know like something like in other words, that’s important to their lifestyle the, the, where the kids go to school and of course you know they have earn money and they have savings and whatnot but still they never really let go of that fear of you know  you know fear and did something on their own. So now they are stuck in that you know rat race so to speak 

scarcity if, if, you find yourself in that scarcity you know downward funnel you know I think what, what, happened, we sort of accidentally adopt a victim mindset and no control

yeah 

so I don’t have any you know I don’t have any control over it and so many dentists when they give the excuses for why they’re not you know dropping PPO plans, it’s well you know 85 percent of my patient review 90 percent of my patients and all the big employers in town, you know have those I remember having a conversation with the doctor in Sunnyvale California so I could never do it here because we have all these big high-tech employers. That’s scarcity that scarcity mindset 

Right

because I said, Well wait a minute, I know Sunnyvale I actually know it pretty well my son actually works there, and I know it pretty well. Does everyone work for those companies he said well no of course not and all of a sudden he started to switch his thinking it was like wait a minute you’re telling me I can do it here, and that’s where the switch was occurring from scarcity I could never do it here to wait a minute I could do this here,  and as you start you know the, the, book  good to great by Jim Collins was so good because he contrasted in every  academic point he was making in the book he contrasted what  the CEOs of the companies that made the transition from good to great did and contrasted it with what the CEOs of the same of companies in the same industry didn’t do and as a result didn’t make the transition from good to great, but the, the, ones that did make the transition  have  a an attitude that I have control there’s things I could do I maybe don’t have control of everything you know that’s, that’s, a that’s a fact right you have control of everything you don’t have control over whether you know Microsoft is going to buy the delta PPO plan but you have control over what you can do. Let’s go find people that don’t have that let’s find them in our community. Another example of abundance of scarcity is, is, a very fact driven on this one. Sadly, the American Dental Association reports that only three percent this is 2018, most recent year we have data on this. Uh that only three percent of dentists use in the United States can retire without having to reduce their lifestyle at age 65. That statistic makes me very sad because you all deserve better than that, you deserve better than that and that you know so if you say well, I guess I’m just resigned to working my tail off and never really having you know complete financial comfort, and that’s scarcity. The abundance mindset says you know what those are the facts but there’s things that I can do so I’m not in that bucket. There are things that I can do and then hey if there was one thing that I would do is quit giving away hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to the insurance companies, because they aren’t funding your retirement. They’re funding their own, you know their own excess. They’re not funding you. So, the difference between abundance and scarcity is real and I want to encourage all of our listeners to be more mindful. Catch yourself in your thinking catch yourself and if you find yourself it’s entirely possible to subconsciously shift over to scarcity would you agree Naren, if that’s possible?

absolutely

  I mean just watch the news for 10 minutes the next thing you know you’ll be feeling down, you know so catch yourself when that happens and make a conscious shift to say what can I do to counter. For example, if you feel like well, I might lose too many patients, you can proactively start to market and this specifically I’d recommend you do exactly what we did which is to work with your company Naren, EKWA to replace delta with google. It’s worked fantastic for us it’s worked fantastic for all the clients I’ve referred and I’d recommend that our listeners do the same, and there you go and you’ve now taken action towards not being a victim and towards what can you take action towards having the abundance become the reality that we know it can be.

Yeah

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