'How then, can you secure an everlasting spring & not a cistern? By keeping yourself at all times intent on freedom' - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 8:51
For a long time I wasn't sure exactly what I wanted. When I was a teenager, I was set on being the richest, wealthiest man in the world. As I've grown, I've realised a different kind of wealth, the wealth of freedom. Financial, work and time freedom. Time is a funny one, we try to kill or pass, but in the end, we realise that's all we ever had.
For a long time I looked for the answers to success, and I looked at my peers and seniors. But I'm not sure I ever found the answers there.
I have a sneaking suspicion that the story I used to tell myself was that freedom was when you could afford to have more, or when you reached some vague level of financial and material wealth. While I'm very much commercially minded, I think there is a clear separation between being commercially driven and being selfish or greedy.
I recently caught up with Dr. Adam Fraser from the Glucose Club, and he told me a story about a wealthy businessman, who said his two keys of running a business wasn't by being about the money, but about helping others and keeping your employees happy. Here was a man who has found financial freedom and is also free of being attached to money.
So my mission critical is being free. That's the balcony view... Now I've got to dance.
Freedom is not idleness, freedom is not about doing nothing. It about being the sole arbiter of what one does, and what one does not do. - Some random French movie
Flicky credit: abnelgonzalez
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