Financial Freedom and Purpose

Financial freedom is only one aspect of freedom. Financial freedom only makes sense when it creates the platform for you to be what you were born to be. Financial freedom is only a passport to freedom. You still need a flight ticket to get to your destination.

To experience financial freedom, you have to be yourself. You have to resist pressures from all quarters to be someone else. Parents, more than any other set of humans on the planet, attempt to make their own children into their own image. In the attempt to bring up the child right, they muzzle their children’s identity and sometimes their dreams. They try to influence everything from your likes and dislikes, dress code, choice of friends, career and marriage. Some parents not only dictate your vocation, they get to choose where you work after graduation. You are not given enough space to be yourself.

Parents do mean well when they interfere. For sure they have a very major role in the upbringing of the child. It is their primary responsibility.

However, the line between guidance and manipulation can become blurred in the hustle and bustle of everyday living.

Sometimes one sibling is used as a benchmark to judge others, forgetting the fact that we are all unique, with a different set of strengths, weaknesses, temperaments, talents and personality. Often times, parents try to make their dreams come true through their children.

Having more than enough money and material things does not fill the void created by lack of self-fulfillment. Success cannot be equated with money, material things or position. Success is not what you have, but who you are. It is not about having, that is external. It is about being; that is internal. The external cannot satisfy in the long term. It cannot fill the void on the inside. Ultimately success will be judged by how well you became who you were born to be.

The highest form of self-actualization is to discover purpose, and fulfill it. Life outside of purpose is meaningless. For those trapped in the rat race, survival is still an issue. You definitely need to stay alive to fulfill your dreams and purpose. This is where financial freedom kicks in. it is not about money. Money cannot buy purpose. It is about freedom to pursue your dreams and purpose. Financial freedom is not a destination, but a bus stop along the way.