American’s love a lot of things. I would argue that we love freedom above ALL. Freedom has been our aim from the first Pilgrims. Freedom to believe. Freedom to not believe. Freedom to speak. Freedom to vote. Freedom to NOT. Freedom to think. Freedom to choose. Freedom to buy. Freedom, ultimately to do as we please. In fact, we mostly think of our freedoms as if they were a birthright.
They are NOT.
Freedoms greatest enemy is freedom.
Viktor Frankl was right. The statue of Liberty on the east coast needs a bookend on the west. The bookend, he said, was the statue of responsibility. Want more freedom in your life? Grab some more discipline alongside it. Your happiness is not dependent on your freedom to live unconstrained. Your happiness, it turns out, is more dependent on your ability to resist impulse, your ability to set long term goals and keep reaching toward them, and your ability to embrace the acute pain that is always part and parcel to a life well lived. Funny, huh.
Enjoy your freedom. Do not take it for granted. Remember, you are your own worst enemy and your fixation on freedom needs a little self correcting.
Freedoms best friend is self discipline. Build some of that and taste some real, hard earned liberties. Yea, baby…
BUILT TO LEAD 