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recommitting to living by the 21 Distinctions of Wealth.
As you create greater success for yourself, you may find that you start taking it for granted and stop being aware and appreciative of the abundance in your life. Often businesses that grow quickly will begin taking their client base for granted, providing less customer service than they did when they first started out. This lax attitude toward the rich resource of customers will result in a business's abundance slipping away, as customers move on to another company that's more respectful of them.
In your personal life, too, you might start to assume that the tremendous flow of abundance you're experiencing right now will always continue at the current rate, and forget how important it is to respect and nurture all your resources. If you have financial holdings available for the periods when your abundance flow slows down due to circumstances beyond your control, you'll find it much easier to increase that flow again quickly because you'll take comfort in knowing that you have enough resources to carry you through the challenging times.
Whenever you want to grow your abundance, reconnect to the flow and appreciate and nurture others' abundance as well. Years ago my friend had a job in a small retail shop that couldn't possibly compete with a rival store's prices because her store didn't have as much buying power, but my friend's manager was determined to increase profits. He called together his team of workers, many of whom were teenagers, and told them he wanted them to help him sell more products so that all of them could experience greater prosperity. He promised to increase their hours and wages if the team was successful, and he told them he felt great confidence in their abundance of abilities. He built up their positive feelings and presented his plan for providing better customer service than their rival store offered.
One aspect of the plan was that if anyone running a register noticed more than two people in line at another register, they were to make an announcement calling customers to come to theirs to check out. Soon customers realized that while the prices were higher there than at the other store, they could consistently