Unknowingly I have lived large swaths of my life with the abundance mentality. Most things never phase me, I keep going and always look for bigger and better opportunities. It drives my Blue Pill friend’s nuts to see me move jobs after 6-18 months constantly moving up the income and value ladder.

When I read about the abundance mentality on the Red Pill, I was blown away because I knew it to be true. Following these concepts and ideas were what lead me to my greatest achievements. Any time I have strayed from this mentality I have suffered from it.

I was met with a real challenging moment yesterday where for just under 2 hours I forgot about the abundance mentality.

13 days ago I made another job switch. Moved from one Fortune 500 company with a team of people and a $5M budget, to a different Fortune 500 company where I would be a thought leader on my area of expertise. Now, many would think this is a demotion, and it was in some ways, but at the new place I am a highly paid contractor who's opinions shape the company and I am paid for every hour I work.

This will result in a 38%+ increase in my personal income. Not too bad.

Yesterday, 12.4 days after making the job switch I was hit by what appeared to be devastating news. Apparently, prior to my hire there was great debate if they should hire a thought leader in this area. A very senior manager decided against it and cut it from the budget. This senior manager poorly communicated the cut in the budget leaving everyone beneath him believing that they had a job opening that lead to me being hired.

Management discovered this issue the 2nd day I was on-site. They began to scramble to figure out what to do. They had just pulled me away from a great job and knew that thought leaders in my area are impossible to come by.

The figured out they had enough budget this year to fund me for 20-50% of the year, but that they could bill me out to other departments within the company to get the remainder of my funding.

All of this was casually relayed to the entire team I am on without giving much thought to how people would react or what they would think (especially me) when they heard that my funding was cut.

Initially I was pissed. I mean, really, really pissed.

I know that emotions will lead you to making poor decisions, so after the meeting I calmly went back to my desk, let my contract firm know what was going on and began to think through the situation.

My initial thought was, 'FUCK- I just lost my job'. The rage that I felt from this was fairly hard to suppress.

That is when the Abundance Mentality saved me.

I realized that there is no shortage of demand for my services, and that in the 12 days I had already been with the company I had dramatically impacted several key projects. Every place I had ever worked, I always had more projects assigned to me than anyone else, and I always succeed. This isn't different.

The calm that I felt upon realizing the applications of the Abundance Mentality allowed me to propose 2 enterprise wide initiatives yesterday afternoon that will not only fill up my schedule and cover my costs, but drive up demand to build my own team. My manager was shocked that I had this together and blown away with the obvious impact to the team and company.

I succeed.

I win.

To hell with anyone that gets in my way.

Thank you Red Pill.