fourth of july inspiration | Total Wealth https://www.totalwealthcoaching.com Financial Transformation with Kate Phillips Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:03:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Are You Any Closer to YOUR Independence Day? https://www.totalwealthcoaching.com/are-you-any-closer-to-your-independence-day/ https://www.totalwealthcoaching.com/are-you-any-closer-to-your-independence-day/#comments Sun, 04 Jul 2010 23:11:35 +0000 http://totalwealthcoaching.com/wp/?p=1323 Contemplations about Freedom and How to “Begin It.” If you’re reading this blog post on a computer in the U.S., you already have advantages and freedoms that many in the world can’t take for granted. First of all, you can read. (A few Middle Eastern and African countries are still debating whether girls should be taught to read….) Second, you have electricity. (I love my annual Orcas Island camping trip, but flashlights and porta-potties get old after a few days.) Third, you have a computer, or at least, computer access. (Anyone over 30 will remember the time known as “B.C.” – before computers!) Furthermore, nobody’s making you read this. It’s not government-approved propaganda. And in spite of the tenacious corporate hold on much of our print and airwaves, make no mistake, we live in a land where freedom of speech reigns – even freedom to criticize our political leaders publicly. My point is this: even if you’re working a job you don’t love, even if you’re struggling to pay your bills, even if your significant other just ran off with someone else and things could be better than they are, you’ve still got a helluva lot to be grateful for. (I’ll light a sparkler to that!) You have the freedom to choose a new home or a new line of work, to study any subject you want (even for free via your computer), freedom to meet new people, even start or expand a business. The requirements for these things? Nothing more than sheer ingenuity and force of will. We enjoy tremendous freedoms that should never be taken for granted, freedoms for which others literally risk their lives for the chance to have. People in U.S. complain, sometimes very legitimately about taxes, corruption, and other problems. But I haven’t heard any…

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"Freedom is the ability to create the lives we want, enjoying the journey as much as the destination.... The freedom to express oneself fully and without fear, whether in conversation, business, or art.... Freedom is enjoying every day, living in gratitude, living from choice."

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