How To Create Total Freedom In Your Life

Our ordinary life experiences bear little resemblance to those of our father, and much less to those of our grandfather. Yet most of our traditional roles have been passed down through so many generations that they are in a rut.

There is a serious danger in following the "established" roads to success. Many of them are as outmoded as the directions for following the Oregon Trail. Many lead to goals that no longer exist, or are over-crowded. There are many kinds of successes to be reached, but are they the roads for you, leading to where you want to go?

Our culture is still telling us to go to school so that we can get a job and make money. Teachers, parents, friends and government tell us that after 40 years (or so) of hard work, we will have a secure retirement. The evidence shows us that work does not necessarily equal wealth. People work long hours and have little to show for it.

The usual career training systems allow no time for learning the skills for personal and financial freedom. Why do only a few people seem to get wealthy and financially free, and why is it that the knowledge they seem to have appears to be so elusive?

Our education system is still following procedures created in the 1800s. The masses are not taught how to create wealth but how to work for others. We graduate as a doctor, lawyer, chemist, chef or any other career you care to mention.

That expensive education provides training about a job but the graduate is left without a clue on wealth-building or how to have a healthy, happy life. Too often wealth is equated with collecting "things" - expensive automobiles, a mansion with a second vacation home, jewelry, designer clothing, and whatever else is the latest fad.

One author asked the question - what would you do if your annual income suddenly becomes your monthly income? Or, what would you do if you had a million dollars? We all have visions about a dream life! However, the records on most lottery winners paint quite a different picture. Within five or ten years most are in worse condition financially than they were before the win.

If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Before you go off to some fantasy land, take time to consider what you want out of life. What is important to you, regardless of what tradition, your boss, or your friends might say? Your guiding influence should come from within.

Keep asking yourself "why" until you really know what gives you the feelings of joy and accomplishment. Take some time to decide what health, wealth and happiness mean to you.

Only you can know your achievements, and in getting to know them you will meet, possibly for the first time, that most interesting and increasingly successful stranger who is yourself. You will continue to grow and change as your world expands.

Gloria Hansen is an author and educator on consumer issues. She has a B.S. degree in Foods and Nutrition from Iowa State University. Her website, http://www.LivingBetterAndBetter.com features lifestyle changes for optimum health, living life in abundance, feeling and looking great, changing your mind to change your world and other resources for self improvement.

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