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Do You Value Your Independence?

Do You Value Your Independence More Than You Do Your Physical Possessions?

Stuff. We all have it and too much of it. We work to acquire the things that clutter our homes and then we work to maintain it. When our stuff breaks down, we work harder to fix it or buy new, upgrade models intended to make our lives easier.

But what ends up happening is – instead of owning our material possessions – they end up owning us. Maybe you’ve reached a point in your life where you’re tired of being on the constant hamster wheel of working and finding that nothing feeds that emotional need within you.

You’ve known for years – maybe ever since you were a child – that you were meant to have a great life. Somewhere along the way, though, that great life changed into a life just like everyone else.

You became the Joneses and everyone works to keep up with you and you work to keep up with another set of Joneses. As you worked, material goods kept multiplying until your apartment or your house started groaning under the weight of all the stuff.

Physical possessions can act as anchors weighing us down and tying us to a life we no longer want any more. Is there anything wrong with having material goods? Not at all – unless they’re used to try and fill an emotional desire.

Having things never brings a sense of completion and it never brings lasting happiness. Buying a new car brings temporary happiness. Until the first dent appears in the shiny paint. Or the first piece breaks. Or until those hefty car payment notices start arriving.

Less is more and letting go is liberating. Deep down, you probably already know that and you’re ready to be free from all the possessions that keep you bound. You want to stop walking in the same deep rutted path and forge ahead even if you have to create a completely new path into uncharted territory. So what keeps you stuck where you are?

The same feeling that holds many people in place. Fear. It’s hard to break away from all the expectations of friends and loved ones and it’s hard to stand alone when living in a society that has ‘one size live like all’ rules. Most of us live lives that we were forced to fit.

But if you’re dissatisfied with where your life is, change it. Take the dreams inside of you, that quiet voice that dares to hope that your life doesn’t have to fall into the trap of mediocrity and make your life fit you. It doesn’t matter what your job is now. It doesn’t matter how much stuff you have or what’s expected of you. What matters is that this is the only life that you currently have. Live it free.

Live like the Free Spirit you are!