September 4, 2015 | Posted in: Leading Hartfully
Freedom is enlightening and is there to be savored for all it is worth. It truly is energizing when you have the freedom to be yourself. Proclaim your independence and vow to live your life freely starting today. Think about how heavy and draining our lives would be if we didn’t have freedom of choice, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom to choose where we live, shop, work, play, and freedom to choose our life partner. How fabulous to have such freedoms!
After living overseas for 10 years without all these freedoms, I came to realize their profound significance and impact on my energy and my ability to choose the life I wanted to live without the constraints of not having all the freedom I was used to having.
Take a look at the personal constraints you put on yourself by your beliefs or outdated rules. What other restraints can you break free of that you place on yourself or that others place on you. Did you once need such guidelines and rules and now they are pinning your down? Some of my associates have found their freedom by sending their shirts out to be laundered and ironed, or by hiring others to do their yard work or house chores. Others have found their freedom by going back to college in their 40’s to learn a new skill or earn a degree in a new field.
Still others have found their freedom after the kids finished college or when they decided they didn’t have to make their bed every day. There are some who have found the freedom of their right livelihood and shed the shackles of a job that they never really wanted to do in the first place. Or those people who have been living a lie or keeping a secret for many years who finally come to grips with their past and now exalt in the freedom of living the truth and speaking their truth.
As the statement goes, the truth will set you free. What would it take for you to feel your full freedom and to feel your full energy without constraints? What is holding you back from the freedom of fear and the freedom to be yourself? Is it you or somebody or something else that is your biggest barrier to freedom? What tools do you need to tear down the wall or scale over it? Take a look at your freedom pie chart and figure out what percentage of your life is lived in freedom.
Gaia Hart
As the CEO (Chief Energizing Officer) at Hartful Living including GaiaHart.com and BizBuilderCards.com; I’m a Messenger and Mentor for women entrepreneurs, connecting them to their capacity to energize their work and their lives in the art of living Hartfully. At BizBuilderCards.com, you can make a living through giving with greeting cards and gifts to build your network net worth as an additive to your current business or an easy way to send gratitude and kindness to the world.