Money = Freedom?

Cash equals freedom. You manage to pay for, and you are able to do no matter you need. Everyone knows that, proper? Work onerous so as to get job so as to become profitable so as to do no matter you need.

As my 12-year outdated son likes to say, “Some phrases and circumstances apply.” Nicely, the phrases and circumstances on the above assertion are this: you’ll be able to solely do what you need within the evenings and on week-ends, if you aren’t busy within the evenings volunteering to take care of your picture and dealing round the home most week-ends to take care of your stuff. Freedom begins on the age of 65, if certified.

You’re right here since you’ve already known as bullshit on that one…However, then again, you’re nonetheless studying this out of your cubicle, beneath blinking fluorescent lights as a result of there’s nonetheless part of you that calls BS on these life designers and path blazers who can simply stop their jobs and don’t need to pay payments or one thing they usually simply don’t perceive the realities of your life.

So how can YOU (not these different guys) have freedom too?

What does freedom imply to you? (A fast google picture search appears to counsel that freedom is all about leaping in fields, so you could be nearer that you simply suppose!) If freedom some obscure feeling that you simply’ll know when it hits you, I’m going to problem you to essentially outline it. I’m additionally going to ask you to go away out the MegaMillions lottery commercials which might be beginning to play in your head.

Is freedom not answering to anybody else? Is it making your personal selections? Nice. Now get extra concrete: is it not even proudly owning a go well with a lot much less carrying one? Is it working from house? Is it touring with the household two months a yr? Is it residing in a yurt on a bit of island the Pacific?

For me, freedom is: being at house with my daughter till she is sufficiently old for varsity; selecting the faculties that my older boys go to; working from house; exploring the world with my youngsters; doing what I really like; elevating my kids with the values that I consider in; consuming what my physique desires; having a steadiness of labor and pleasure.

However you’re caught proper now, so that you in all probability don’t need me to level out that I if that’s freedom to me, that I already am free, that I can do most of these issues with out cash. You wish to hear me speak concerning the vital stuff, the cash stuff, proper?

Nicely, going to work is a selection you make day-after-day. It’s one thing that you simply select since you need it. You’re free to go away any time. Your job is one thing that you simply created in your life. I do know, you’re employed to pay your payments. However you’re selecting the payments too. Should you don’t wish to pay the cable invoice, then cancel the cable. It’s that straightforward. I do know as a result of I cancelled the cable. And the landline. And gave up the latte behavior too.

Possibly you’ll be able to’t stop your job, as a result of, sure, there’s a certain quantity of payments that all of us have, that all of us need: meals and a few type of roof over our heads. However a lot after that comes right down to what we’re selecting – utilizing our freedom of selection! – as a result of it’s what we wish. Or possibly it’s simply what we thought we wished…

Problem your assumptions.

Problem your priorities.

Problem your freedom.