The first of the 7 indisputable laws of Potential Crystallization is what I call the Law of Exuberance.
The Law of Exuberance states, ‘There is an abundance of lively potentials and possibilities bubbling within and around you.’
In the world of computer programming, the concept of open-source software intrigues me every time.
Here’s how it works:
From time to time, brilliant programmers spend countless hours perfecting a software that is designed to solve a problem.
According to the laws of demand and supply, money flows wherever solutions to problems are. Therefore, it follows logic that whenever there’s a software that can solve a specific problem, the creators should charge people money for the benefit of using the said software to solve their problems. And that is what normally plays out in the normal marketplace.
But it’s at this juncture that the concept of open-source software makes an unexpected detour.
Rather than ask the users to pay money as the software is utilized, these programmers do the exact opposite – they share the program’s source code, blueprints, and documentation freely with anybody that is interested in it. That’s tantamount to spending years of research creating a drug that can cure cancer, only to show everybody how to create it themselves in 10 minutes!
Indeed, this kind of unhindered giving is only possible with a perfect understanding of the Law of Exuberance.
When the creators of these open-source software develop them, their dominant paradigm is not the fear that someone will steal their idea and profit from it.
Rather, on the contrary, their dominant paradigm is two-fold: First, they know that that there is an abundance of good ideas bubbling within and around them, from which they can always go back to draw from; secondly, they know that their software is not in the most perfect form yet, and that it takes input from others to bring the program to its full capabilities.
The immediate goal of these folks is not to make as much money as possible, but rather, to play their role as solution providers!
Perhaps, it is no wonder that these open-source programmers either go on to establish great IT companies, or more likely, get snapped up by multi-million-dollar companies who provide the money, the platform and the resources to keep on producing programs and software that attempt to solve even more ambitious problems.
The truth is that the vast majority of us were raised with a scarcity mentality.
We were taught that there is never going to be enough resources for everybody.
We were taught that there was only one way to win – finding a way to ensure that every other person lost.
We were taught to act as animals in the jungle – totally lacking in understanding and reacting solely on impulse.
We forget Proverbs 11:24 which says, ‘There is one who scatters yet increases more; And there is one who withholds more than is right, but it leads to poverty’
The more you give, the more likely you are to receive.
The less you flow into others, the more likely you are to stink with stagnation!
Unfortunately, living from a paradigm of scarcity is like having logs of wood in place of eyes. You will be rendered totally oblivious to the abundance that is already around and within you.
If you want to crystallize your potentials without any tears, your default belief system must be one of abundance.
Your outlook towards life must be abundance.
You need to deliberately acknowledge abundance in everything you do.
You need to deliberately acknowledge abundance in everything you say.
You need to deliberately acknowledge abundance in your thoughts and reasonings.
This is not a call to trick yourself into living a lie.
On the contrary, this is a call to acknowledge the real objective truth – that there is an abundance of potentials and possibilities around you!
