Beyoncé's Homecoming shows us what abundance looks like

Watching Homecoming, Beyoncé’s extraordinary Coachella concert film on Netflix, I was struck over and over by how fully she embraces abundance over scarcity.

It’s so easy to focus on what’s lacking in our lives. As Brené Brown (who has a new Netflix special of her own) often says, we live in a culture of scarcity. We believe there’s never enough time. Never enough money. Never enough sleep. Never enough love. Never enough opportunity.

When Beyoncé was asked to become the first black woman to ever headline Coachella, she could have chosen to make it all about her. Trained the spotlight on herself. There’s never enough fame, attention, or adulation, right?

Instead, the first concert footage features a fierce-looking drum majorette. Then the camera zooms past a dozen dancers before we finally encounter Queen Bey. Throughout the show, she surrounds herself with collaborators — over 200 in all. An enormous marching band. Steppers. Hip-hop and contemporary dancers.

The entire performance is a celebration not of Beyoncé, but of black culture. “It was important to me that everyone that had never seen themselves represented felt like they were on that stage with us,” she says during the voiceover. “We were able to create a free, safe space where none of us were marginalized.”

Each moment of this delightful performance oozes with a generosity of spirit — a sharing of the abundance that being Beyoncé allows — that moved me.

You, presumably, are not Beyoncé. Neither, sadly, am I. But we can all find moments in our lives, both small and large, to share with others.

There is enough to go around. Enough credit for that killer project at work. Enough facetime with your hard-to-schedule boss. Enough space for a co-leader at the front of the room in that workshop you’re running.

Invite others in.

Where can you share the spotlight?