I’ve been spending a lot of time in our garden this past week—hands deep in the soil, surrounded by weeds the size of small trees (okay, slight exaggeration 😜😆).
And, once again, my garden reminded me of an essential principle of abundance—one I needed to remember… and one I think you might need to hear, too.
Because if you’re tired of trying so hard—
Tired of doing all the right things… and still not experiencing the abundance, freedom, or peace you long for—in your life or bank account…
If you’ve been wondering what’s wrong with you, or why it all feels like such an uphill battle…
My friend, it might not be you at all. It might be your soil.
Let me explain…
Dan & I have been 100% organic with our garden for 20 years. So when I dig, the soil is dark, moist and rich. Every handful is filled with earthworms, beetles and microbes.
The soil is ALIVE. You can feel it. I even took a photo so you can see it.
And when the soil is full of life, growing an abundant harvest is pretty simple.
Sure—we have our part to play, but nature does the heavy lifting. Our plants flourish—with less effort, less fertilizer, and less stress.
Which got me thinking… and going “undercover” to test a theory I had. 🔍
In the pre-dawn light one morning last week, I grabbed my shovel and walked over to our neighbor’s field. (He’s a commercial farmer.)
He’d already tilled the land, sprayed herbicides, and was about to plant.
I dug into his soil—and what I found broke my heart. 😢
It was dry. Salty. Powdery. Gray. Lifeless.
No worms. No bugs. No sign of the vital ecosystem that makes soil fertile and plants flourish.
And it hit me like a lightning bolt: ⚡
How can we expect to grow life from something that isn’t alive?
How can we expect to grow abundance from something that isn’t already abundant?
That, my friend, is what so many of us are unknowingly doing in our own lives. 😔
We’ve been taught to hustle.
To strategize.
To fix.
To manifest harder.
To visualize more clearly.
To DO more and BE more and PROVE more…
But no one ever taught us to take a close look at the soil…
To check the foundation we’re building our lives—and our relationship with money—on.
And for most of us?
That foundation is scarcity.
It’s not our fault—it’s the only model we were ever given.
It’s the air we breathe. The rules we follow. The invisible framework of “not enough” that shapes how we think, feel, and operate—especially when it comes to money.
We try to grow abundance using the tools we’ve inherited, never realizing we’re trying to grow it in deficient—even dead soil. In what I now call the Archetype of Scarcity.
And it doesn’t matter how many affirmations you say…
How many mindset shifts you make…
How many hours you work or strategies you implement…
If your foundation is rooted in scarcity, it will always feel like a struggle.
You’ll always have to keep adding more “fertilizer.”
Always feel like something’s missing.
Always wonder why it’s not working.
But here’s the thing you need to know.
There IS another way.
There IS another model.
Another foundation.
Another kind of soil.
It’s not based on chasing, fixing, or producing more.
It’s based on LIFE. Trust. Connection. The natural, organic rhythms of receiving, growing, and giving.
It’s what I call the Sacred Archetype of Abundance.
And when that is your foundation?
Abundance can grow in your life (and bank account) with more ease.
More peace.
More flow.
More LIFE.
Just like my garden. 🌾
And so, my friend, I now invite you to consider this question…
What soil are YOU planted in?
What’s the foundation you’ve been trying to grow abundance in?
Is the model you have for abundance more like the farming model my neighbor uses—or like our organic, life-filled and life-giving garden?
If you’re curious—if something inside you is whispering, “Maybe THIS is the missing piece…”—then I invite you to take one or both of the following steps ASAP:
✨ If you haven’t already done so, go to my homepage—and watch the short 4-minute video at the top of the page.
It will be your first step for assessing the condition of your “soil”—your foundation. And if you realize it just might be one of scarcity, you’ll discover what you can do to change it—to create a foundation OF abundance… FOR abundance.
Speaking of which…
✨ If you’re ready to bring life back to your soil and start building on a new foundation, I invite you to join me in one of the upcoming sessions of my 8-week Foundation for Abundance program.
In this experiential class, we’ll dig deep together—healing your foundation, nourishing your inner soil, and creating the conditions for true abundance to grow in your life and bank account.
Because it’s not about doing more.
It’s about making sure the soil you’re planting in is filled with the life-giving nutrients, principles and practices that support growth—IN abundance.
You’re not deficient, my friend—but the soil you’ve inherited might be.
And the moment you choose to stop trying to force life from what’s dead…
Is the moment abundance can begin to grow—naturally.
No more constant hustling.
No more fixing what’s not broken.
Just YOU, planted in rich, life-giving soil.
Ready to grow—in abundance. 🌻
With MUCH love~
XO
T.