Defining Freedom for Life Goals

Many of us have types of freedoms listed on our life goals: financial freedom, time freedom, and lifestyle freedom are just a few common freedoms listed on life goals. I’m guilty of this too. The problem starts with how you are defining freedom for life goals. Is your definition of freedom holding you back?

Is your definition of what freedom means to you creating a barrier for you to overcome? In order to achieve your life goals, you will have barriers challenging your success. You may even find yourself in a rut and need to figure out how to overcome those mental barriers.

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If you were to ask the people in your life what freedom means to them, they would all give a different answer. Some would focus on a lifestyle they dream about, while others focus on the money they want or the time they crave.

Most definitions of freedom are what we want but don’t have. What we dream of having but haven’t yet achieved.

Your definition of freedom can create a barrier in your mind and a limiting belief that you don’t have freedom now because you are focusing on what you don’t have. The truth is most of us have freedom, but we are so focused on what we don’t have and that it is stopping us from shifting the freedoms we have now to where we want to go.

We all have some level of freedom in our lives that we need to recognize, own it, and appreciate it. By doing that simple action, we can start to understand how our cups are overflowing with freedom already. When we can appreciate what we have now, then our mindset shifts to true gratitude, with a capital G!

It is that gratitude that opens up opportunities and changes our mindsets to look at freedom differently. The truth is we all have some form of freedom now and all we are striving to achieve is a shift in how that freedom looks for our future.

I’ve been struggling with mindset barriers in many forms this year. Many times, I thought they would be impossible to overcome but I was researching and working hard to find ways to overcome the barriers. Then that simple quote (see the picture above) from Robert M. Drake blew my mind.

I read it, consumed it, and it resonated so much that I had visions of walls crumbling.

That, in itself, felt like freedom.

Before seeing this quote I was listening to a podcast with Preston Smiles and he mentioned that having gratitude needed to be more than just how our day went. We needed to truly appreciate every aspect of our life now.

My Uncle used to say that “any day that he spends above ground is a great day”. It’s true. Preston Smile talked about looking at the small things in your life that you have right now and having gratitude for each of them.

being able to turn on a tap or go to the store to buy water
being able to pay your rent or mortgage
having transportation to work every day
having a job
seeing your child smile
holding hands with someone you love
having a blanket to take the chill off

The list can go on for miles. My point is that we all have some form of freedom at this very moment. Even Nelson Mandela recognized while in jail that he had the freedom to learn. His captors couldn’t take that freedom from him, so while he was in jail he studied law. While in court, many times he would use his freedom of speech to not plead for his personal freedom but for his activism.

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I’m not in jail at this very moment but in my mind, I was shackled to these beliefs that my life goals around freedom were starting to look impossible. It was this mindset that created walls (barriers) and it didn’t matter what I did to try and overcome those barriers, nothing worked.

By focusing on what I didn’t have, I was starting to have a limiting belief that freedom was impossible for me. That was a lie because I had freedom already. The current definition of the freedom I have now just looked different than the freedom I am working to achieve in my life goals.

Boom!

Let’s focus on that for a moment.

The current definition of the freedom you have now is just different than the one you are striving to achieve in your life goals.

It’s a mind-shift. When you are defining freedom for life goals you need to recognize that you aren’t creating this seemingly unattainable goal that only happens in your dreams. You have freedom now and that freedom has changed as you ventured through your life journey so far. The definition of your freedom will change again as you move through life.

The key is not letting yourself think you don’t have freedom now. Appreciate the freedom you have now and work towards shifting that freedom to where you want to be. Set those life goals, track them, and work towards success.

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