Many years ago I made myself a promise to never again sign up for a course that doesn’t interest and excite me. At that time I was studying to be a certified accountant. I had already passed half of the exams and was studying for the next. I also had worked in accounting for a number of years and I knew that it was not exactly something that lighted me up. I could make a pretty good living but it was not something that I wanted to do for the rest of my life. I paused and I thought about it some more. In all honesty, I didn’t want to do that work at all. It had no meaning to me. I believed that I had some other mission in life and it was not counting someone else’s money. It didn’t feel like Freedom, it felt like voluntarily accepted slavery…. Oh-oh. But what will my parents say? How else am I going to make a living?

Of course all the fears surfaced but this time the desire to free myself was stronger than the fear.

Once I realized that it was a voluntary imprisonment that I put myself into, I quit. Just like that, mid course. I just stopped studying accounting and signed up for a photography course instead. Because that was something that interested me, because it was something that made me happy, because it was exciting.

My parents didn’t approve. They thought it was silly and irresponsible. I made peace with that. I love my parents but I am not here to live their lives. I am here to live mine.

From that point things started to change. It was a slow change, but I was determined (I wish there was a Life Coach in my life then!). I didn’t become a professional photographer, but I still love taking pictures. Today I do what I love. Today I get to decide what I am going to do, when and with whom.

What is the moral of the story? Well, we are the ones who create our own prisons. We are the ones who can free ourselves from those prisons. It is just a choice. It might be a scary choice but it is a choice. In a way, that is what life is, isn’t it? Just a string of choices.

I want to invite you to look inside and see what choices you are making today. Are they freeing you? What are the long term consequences of the choice you are making? Is this choice aligned with your core values?

If you feel like you could use some help, please reach out. I love helping people on their Path to Freedom and Transformation.

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