Why Freedom Is More Important Than Money (A Filter For Your Life)

Money is a prison when you misuse it.

Not because money itself is bad, but because people use money in the wrong way. People buy more, have more, and need more with more money.

They begin to prioritize accumulation over living.

They decide to work more hours, accept toxic jobs, and abandon some of life’s most precious moments.

The money they’ve acquired, however small or large, becomes the shackles they thought they were trying to escape with more money.

Focus first on your freedom.

Before you waste your life chasing jobs to buy and protect all the materialistic things you’ve accumulated, know what freedom looks and feels like.

What does freedom mean to you? Write it down.

To me, it’s:

• I spend most of my time with my family.
• I make my own hours.
• I can take time off, any time I want.
• I can work and travel anywhere in the world.
• I don’t allow materialistic things to weigh me down.
• I’m healthy and have a ton of energy and strength.
• I live a life based on less is more.

The flexibility of time is one of the best ways to become free.

Know what freedom means to you, work to achieve it, then protect it.

Money isn’t the bad guy; life choices are.

Money can help buy you a level of freedom.

But at a certain point, the law of diminishing returns kicks in because most people don’t know how to manage their desires.

They begin to fight to protect their material possessions and what started as a portal to freedom; money slowly begins to build a prison around them.

Their “things” are all they think about.

Money can buy you a degree of freedom, but so can better life choices and materialistic sacrifices.

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