How Free are You Allowing Yourself to Be?
Today is Made in the USA Day, Thursday is Independence Day, and the short work week means most US workers have more freedom than normal this weekend – four days off instead of two. Today, let’s talk about freedom from a slightly different perspective – let’s talk about the freedom you either do or don’t allow yourself to feel.
- Have you ever come up against something that felt unfair to you, and you rebelled? That’s you, allowing your freedom.
- Have you ever been in a situation where you felt intimidated, maybe because of an authority figure? That’s you, disallowing your freedom.
America was formed because of those two different approaches to freedom. Ours is a country created through civil, then not-so-civil, disobedience. The words “free” and “freedom” crop up in our foundation documents eight times – four times in the Declaration of Independence, 3 in the Bill of Rights, and once in the Constitution. As a nation, it’s in our genes to want to live our freedom. Yet it’s also very...
