Yeah, I agree with Michael's assessment about the Covey win/win approach.
I think one of the basic points of cultivating an abundance mindset is that when you give money away, you start to feel like someone who can afford to give money away. That feeling creates an optimism and generosity of spirit that, in turn, benefits you by attracting more wealth into your life. However, if you give money away and literally can not afford to pay your bills afterward, that feeling of optimism is going to be short-lived. Too short to do you any good, in all likelihood.
The key is in the concept of "enough". Keep enough for yourself, no more and no less. Keep too much and you get greedy and slide into scarcity. Keep too little and you can't make ends meet and slide into scarcity. It's a tricky balance. For lots of people, though, living on "enough" creates an overage that can be shared. |