Using the Be-Do-Have Sequence to Begin Acting From Abundance

Most people live the sequence backwards.

HAVE → DO → BE: First I’ll have enough money. Then I’ll invest in my business, price properly, show up with confidence. Then I’ll be someone who operates from abundance.

The problem with this sequence is obvious once it’s named — you’re waiting for the external condition to produce the internal state. But the internal state is upstream of the external condition. You can’t get to abundance by waiting for abundance to arrive first.

The BE-DO-HAVE sequence reverses this. BE the state. DO from that state. HAVE as the result.

The question that immediately follows is: how? What does it actually mean to “be abundant” before you have the circumstances? And how is this different from affirmation or positive thinking?

The Distinction That Makes It Real

What money blocks are includes the pattern of waiting — waiting to feel differently before acting differently. And abundance vs scarcity programming describes the default that most conscious entrepreneurs are working against: a background hum of “not quite enough” that shapes decisions before conscious thought enters.

The BE in BE-DO-HAVE is not a declaration (“I am abundant”) made over a scarcity-programmed nervous system. It’s the cultivation of a genuine internal state — a felt, embodied experience of abundance that precedes and informs action.

The difference: affirmation is narrative-layer. BE is somatic and identity-level. The narrative says “I am abundant.” The BE state is a physical experience of enough-ness — present-tense, real, not contingent on circumstances being different.

What the BE State Actually Involves

The BE state for abundance involves three elements working together:

Embodied presence. You can’t experience abundance conceptually. It has to be felt. The abundance anchoring practice describes how to build this: systematic, genuine encounter with abundance as it actually exists in your current experience — not imagined abundance, not future abundance, but real present-moment experiences of enough-ness. Held in the body, not just acknowledged in the mind.

Identity congruence. The self-concept filter shapes which opportunities register as meant for you. Acting from the BE state requires that your self-concept includes being someone for whom abundance is a normal experience — not a goal, not an aspiration, but a baseline. Identity reconstruction addresses this layer directly.

Decision quality from the state. The most practical indicator of the BE state is the quality of decisions made from it. Decisions made from abundance feel different from decisions made from scarcity. They’re less reactive, less fear-driven, more generative. The pricing conversation held from a genuine BE state has a different quality than the one held while you’re monitoring the client’s response for signs of rejection.

Applying the Sequence in Practice

Here’s what BE-DO-HAVE looks like applied to a specific money situation — a pricing conversation.

Before the conversation: access the BE state

Not by telling yourself you’re abundant. By accessing genuine present-moment abundance through any anchor that works: a physical grounding practice, a brief abundance anchoring exercise, a moment of genuine gratitude for something real and specific.

The point is to enter the conversation from an actual state — not a declared one. The body is either in the state or it isn’t. Pretending is not useful here.

During the conversation: DO from that state

Notice the quality of how you state your rate from inside the BE state versus from outside it. From scarcity: the rate is offered with a built-in apology, or with a hesitation that the client can feel, or with an immediate pivot to a payment plan option before it’s needed.

From abundance: the rate is stated as a fact. Not aggressively. Not with false bravado. As the actual amount, held with the same quality of neutrality as any other fact.

The DO from the BE state doesn’t require performance. It’s simply the natural expression of what it feels like to be someone for whom that rate is appropriate.

After the result: note what HAVE emerges

Track what happens across time when you consistently BE first. The HAVE is the output — income, client quality, relationship to pricing — and it’s a lagging indicator. It follows the state, sometimes by weeks, sometimes by months.

This is the BE-DO-HAVE timeline that most people can’t sustain: the state changes before the results confirm it. You have to hold the BE state through the gap — the period between changing the internal state and seeing the external confirmation.

The Gap Is Where Most People Turn Back

The gap between BE and HAVE is where the sequence collapses for most people. You shift the state. You do from that state for a few weeks. The results haven’t dramatically changed yet. The old programming reasserts: “See? It doesn’t work. Get back to managing the familiar level.”

What actually happened: the state changed but the results hadn’t yet accumulated. The sequence was working. The turning back reset the sequence.

Understanding this timeline is practical. BE-DO-HAVE is not immediate. The state produces the doing. The doing accumulates into having. The having confirms the state. And then the state becomes more stable because it’s been confirmed.

The gap requires exactly the thing the sequence is building: the capacity to hold a state that isn’t yet confirmed by external evidence. That capacity is itself what abundance as an internal state looks like.

The Abundance GPS Skool community works with David Cameron Gikandi on this sequence — building the BE state through structured, sustained inner work. Join us here.