Do you have the mistaken belief that the world is a place of scarcity? If so, think about this proof that our world is full of abundance just waiting for all to enjoy it.
Whether you believe our world is a place of scarcity or abundance good or evil is all a matter of the perspective you choose. Albert Einstein believed, “The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe.” The reason this decision is critically important is because it forms the basis of the way we view the world and shapes the way we chose to live our lives.
If you have chosen to believe you are poor, think about these facts. There are 7 billion people on the planet. Three billion of those people have no running water within a kilometer of their home. 840 million of them have no access to safe drinking water. Forty percent of the world has no flush toilets, and 2.6 billion have nowhere to dispose of human waste. There are 800 million people on the planet that cannot read, have no education and where they live libraries are only for the rich. There are over 1 billion people on our planet right now that are hungry, and 1.6 billion people with no electricity.
To put this into perspective, one billion seconds ago it was 1959. If you had started counting by one then you would not have counted up to a billion yet. One billion minutes ago Jesus was alive, and one billion hours ago our ancestors were still living in the stone-age. One billion days ago, no one walked on the earth with two feet.
Now contrast this with the undisputed fact that nearly every single person reading this article has ready access to running water, food, toilets, libraries, education, and shelter. Many of you are reading this article on a smart phone and mobile device penetration is growing exponentially around the world, from two percent in 2000, to 28 percent in 2009, to an expected 70 percent this year. Already around the world folks with no education and little food to eat have gained access to cellular connectivity unheard of just thirty years ago.
Today, a Masai warrior with a cell phone has better mobile phone capabilities than the president of the United States had just twenty-five years ago. And if he’s on a smart phone with access to Google, then he has better access to information than the president did just fifteen years ago.
By the end of 2014, the vast majority of humanity will be connected to the World Wide Web of instantaneous, low-cost communications and information.
Likewise, the advancement of new, transformational technologies like computational systems, networks and sensors, artificial intelligence, robotics, biotechnology, bioinformatics, 3-D printing, nanotechnology, human-machine interfaces, and biomedical engineering—will soon enable the overwhelming majority of humanity to experience what only the very affluent have access to today.
There are three primary forces at work to make all of this abundance possible, each augmented by the power of exponentially growing technologies, and each with significant, abundance producing potential.
First, a Do-It-Yourself (DIY) revolution has been brewing for the past fifty years. Today that movement reaches into once-esoteric fields like genetics and robotics. Now small groups of motivated DIY-ers can accomplish what was once the sole province of large corporations and governments.
Check out these awesome examples. Aerospace giants felt it was impossible for private citizens to fly into space, but Burt Rutan did it. Craig Venter also tied the US government in the race to sequence the human genome.
The second force is money. Today a lot of money is being spent in a very particular way. The high-tech revolution created an entirely new breed of wealthy technophilanthropists who are using their fortunes to solve global, abundance-related challenges. Bill Gates is crusading against malaria; Mark Zuckerberg is working to reinvent education; and Pierre and Pam Omidyar have focused their attention on bringing electricity to the developing world.
The abundance that is being created is not just reserved for the developed world. There is also great news for the very poorest of the poor, the so-called bottom billion, who are now plugging into the global economy and positioned to become what people like Peter Diamandis call “the rising billion.” The creation of a global transportation network led the way for this transformation, and now the combination of the Internet, microfinance, and wireless communication technology is transforming the poorest of the poor into an emerging market force.
Each and every one of us has unlimited high potential living within us – right now. But it is only when your desire to live life at its fullest is fed by your own conscious and positive beliefs, perspectives and resourcefulness that your unlimited potential is unleashed. Once you begin consciously and consistently feeding your mind and adopting new empowering beliefs and perspectives, you will activate your potential for greater and greater results.
These new empowering beliefs will unleash even more of your potential, leading to still better actions and even better results. This building of one success on top of another success on top of yet another generates enormous confidence and momentum. Conscious living also allows you to compress decades of effort into months or even days. By consistently living a conscious driven life directed toward generating an abundance of all of the things, relationships and other parts of your life that are important to you very soon you’ll find that the goals you once considered merely dreams not long ago are now your daily reality.
