Manifestations Of A Scarcity Consciousness In The Business World
Updated: Jan 25, 2024
Written by: Jeffrey Scholl, Executive Contributor
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Metaphysics teaches us that whatever we focus on grows stronger…whether what we focus on is desired or undesired. In other words, the Law of Attraction doesn’t respond to our desires…it responds to our vibration.
In our personal lives, if we look at what we have, be it money or possessions and feel worried or anxious about not having enough, we are sending energy out to the Universe that essentially says, “Bring me more experiences of this.”
If we shift our perspective to one of gratitude for anything we have, we are shifting our vibration to, “Bring me more experiences of this.”
We also cannot fool the Universe. We can’t speak words of gratitude while continuing to feel worried and somehow expect that the Universe will respond to our words instead of our vibration. This is why most people believe that the Law of Attraction doesn’t work. It does work; just not the way our ego wants it to work. Accepting this principle of how new realities are manifested is one of the most difficult concepts to wrap our minds around because most of our society operates that reality is created by the “do, have, be” paradigm, not “be, do, have.”
I see this happening often in the business world and note that many business leaders operate from a scarcity consciousness, yet expect that making decisions from the perspective of scarcity will improve their business performance, be it Sales, Cash or Profit. When decisions are made from the perspective of “we don’t have enough,” it manifests more of that.
For example, if a company develops a strategy aimed at maximizing cash at the end of a month or quarter, they will delay payment to their suppliers, delay raises or bonuses to their employees, delay hiring needed personnel, etc.; they are going to manifest exactly the vibration behind these decisions, evidence of scarcity.
Suppliers who are not getting paid on time by some customers will naturally shift their focus to prioritize customers who do pay on time. The company that does not get their product on time to invoice to their customer may think they need to push their suppliers hard to improve On Time Delivery, instead of understanding it is their strategy that drove this behavior in the first place.
Business education, primarily the MBA programs for decades has taught financial leaders how to focus on the short term, without a comprehensive understanding that short-term gain typically leads to long-term pain. I ran across a mainstream article penned by Rana Foroohar at the Financial Times; that supports this theory from a business perspective.
Many companies do achieve some modicum of success and mistakenly believe their strategies are working, while watching their business struggle in other areas because they do not understand that the Universe is always responding to the core vibration driving their strategies, not the rationalization they tell themselves.
Another example is the concept of “quiet quitting” which has been discussed in many articles like this one in the New Yorker for the past few years. Many companies have taken a forceful approach to this phenomenon instead of considering how decisions made from a scarcity consciousness manifested these kinds of results. Employers have slowly chipped away at valuable employee benefits for years and replaced programs with perceived value instead of equivalent value.
One example is the replacement of accrued time off with a policy of “unlimited time off.” Studies have shown that companies who do this do so for financial reasons so they don’t have to pay the accrued vacation time when employees leave the company. There is an implied benefit to the employee that never truly materializes because these studies also show that people actually take less time off in these systems.
When employees see employers reducing the commitment made to the employee, isn’t it an expected reflection that the employee will feel less committed to the company?
If companies want a committed workforce, they have to evaluate how committed they are to the employee, because when companies operate from a scarcity consciousness, they will continue to find ways to erode this commitment for the next quarter or fiscal year and then be confused as to why they aren’t achieving the desired business results. They may view their employees as disengaged instead of looking at how they’ve set the stage vibrationally for these results.
Again, metaphysics teaches us that it is not the rationalization that truly drives our results; it is the vibration behind the rationalization. Leaders who make decisions from the perspective of “not having enough” will manifest it in other ways.
It isn’t whether companies will continue to be profitable despite these policies; it is how much more successful they could be if they created policies from a perspective of abundance instead of scarcity.
As noted in the study on MBAs, because business leaders have been educated from the perspective of scarcity for so long, it will take time to shift any company’s vibration from scarcity to abundance since any time we change our paradigms, it feels uncomfortable at first. However, the more we practice an abundance consciousness and make decisions from this vibration, we will manifest results that may almost seem miraculous.
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Jeffrey Scholl, Executive Contributor Brainz Magazine
Jeffrey Scholl formalized his studies through the Holistic Learning Centers’ Self-Mastery course. He graduated with a Ph.D. level certification in 2007 as a Certified Spiritual Life Coach. He graduated from Southern Illinois University, receiving a Bachelor of Science in Electronic Management and is an Honorably discharged U.S. Navy veteran. He has spent over 25 years combined in the telecommunications and defense industries, while continuing to coach, teach and write.
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