The Inner Architecture of Abundance

Recently, I was working with a client who's created and set aside enough long-term investments to take care of a good portion of his life.

And we were talking about... What if he had 2 million dollars in retirement and long-term investments, or even 10 million — would he feel abundant?

Surprisingly, he said that he would probably feel really good about it the first 3-6 months, but over time, he wouldn't necessarily feel abundant, because he's currently not experiencing abundance in the area of relationship or feeling purposeful in his work.

He realized that, in the end, it didn't matter if he had 2, or even 10 million in the bank and in investments — if his mindset wasn't abundant.

And so, we worked on the area of relationship and how to bring more partnership, connection, and wonder into that dimension of wealth.

This is what I call the inner architecture of abundance, a term inspired by Lenedra Carroll's book 'The Architecture of All Abundance' (which I highly recommend!).

Here's a fact: Where there isn't an inner architecture of abundance, it doesn't matter how much we have in the bank.

We're still going to experience some version of "not enough, never enough."

This is why we need to be able to really work on and dial in the inner architecture of abundance in those areas of our lives that don't feel like there is enough.

While money management is an important pillar of abundance, as long as other important areas of our lives aren't feeling aligned and wealthy — like our relationships and our experience of love, connection, and intimacy — it won't matter.

Shifting the mind with money and abundance is equally, if not more important, than the management or earning of the money.

But you do need to give attention to where and how this is happening, otherwise, your beliefs can stay on autopilot for the rest of your life.

Do you notice that happening for people around you? They just stay in the same repeating patterns, saying the same things over and over again? That's just a reflection of what we all do on some level.

Is that what you really want?

Where do you experience scarcity or lack, that no amount of money could fill?

Writing down a stream of consciousness about where you experience that lack happening, how it makes you feel, and how long you have experienced this feeling can be very valuable material to start working with your inner architecture.