What Is Your AQ - Abundance Quotient?

In this economy, a high IQ (Intelligence Quotient) and a balanced EQ (Emotional Intelligence Quotient) are definite assets.  But, in the face of all this depressing economic news, a high AQ is what will make the difference in where you find yourself during and after these economic times.

Abundance is a word often associated with wealth and affluence, and heard with respect to things, tangibles and money.   Yet, it is also associated with fullness, rate of incidence, and in chemistry, “when a substance in a reaction is present in high quantities”.

I would like you to consider that you experience abundance when your mind is uncluttered, your heart is full, and your spirit is light.

The antonym, or gremlin, that depletes our wealth and abundance is a mindset of lack and scarcity – often accompanied by fear of loss.

A few questions to ask yourself as you check in and become more conscious of your AQ:

1. What does abundance mean to and for me?
2. How do I feel about the power of an abundance mindset?
3. Do I have what it takes to create and maintain an abundant state of Being?

You may have a low AQ if you:

• Spend a great deal of time worrying about money
• Often use words like, "I can't", "I won't", "I coulda'," I shoulda'," "What if ..."  "But..."
• Spend time worrying about the future and feel tired and drained
• Are not eager to face each day
• Are experiencing waning passion, and are loosing a sense of purpose
• Tell yourself, my life would be better if only _____ (fill in the blank)
• Live in overwhelm and low energy
• Feel like you are barely surviving
• Never feel like you have enough
• Hanging around people who like to complain

You have a high AQ if you:

• Are clear where you want to be when "the market" picks up
• Trust your heart and intuition when making personal and business decisions
• Know what drains you, and avoid or reframe it
• Wake each day grateful for something in your life
• Know and employ the power of affirmations
• Have clear and easily accessible means to de-stress
• Know that winners take imperfect action  (Thanks @KevinNations via @CoachEva)
• Surround yourself with a positive, empowering environment (place and people)
• Are connected to source
• Put your self-care (love) as a priority on your to-do list
• Running on passion and thriving versus surviving

Are you getting the picture?  These times are not for the weak and weary.  This is the time to step up and learn how to transform obstacles into opportunity.

If this seems hard, don't go it alone.  Create a proactive support group to motivate and keep you accountable.  Support from family, friends, mentors and mastermind partners keep me on track and moving forward. Actually, this blog is me practicing imperfect action.

I would love to hear your thoughts and feelings around this blog, and your relationship to the AQ.  Please use the comments below to share.

Here's to your life of passion, prosperity and balance!

Life Coach Karen, ACC
The Conscious Business and Retreat Coach

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DISCLAIMER: Just off a call with my fellow retreat coaches and learned that I may be creative, but I am not original.  Turns out that I am enjoying the reality of "great minds think alike."  The mind with which I am in synch is that of coach Kim George, author of Coaching To Greatness in which she speaks to Abundance Intelligence®.  So, I want to make it perfectly clear that I did not know of her when I wrote this blog, but now that I do, I will be sure to mention her if and when I talk of an abundance quotient.