Repertoire of Frames

Wealth and poverty bind the human spirit. It need not be so. Both in their stark reality-bending consequences for those who cope at the edges, and as insidious frames of reference in which those of us who are neither rich nor poor are oddly content to limit ourselves.
I'm thinking about myself—as usual—and not the world's financially destitute. Wondering how I manage to keep slipping into such a limiting, constricting poverty mentality as I paradoxically explore new frontiers of personal and professional contribution.
So many crucial investments placed out of reach by my own zero-sum mindset. I perceive an absence of options simply because I cannot find a rainforest in the desert. But the desert is infinitely rich and diverse once freed form the rainforest frame of reference.
I need a wider repertoire of frames.