What is True Financial Freedom? An Integrated Perspective

What is financial freedom?

Is this what financial freedom mean to you…

A beach lifestyle where you do not have to work and yet the cash register go ka-ching?

A jet-setting lifestyle while your trading portfolio generates income with the click of a button?

A real estate plan that would generate passive income for you while you play golf on the weekdays and have enough time for your family?

I am not surprised if you are already being sold such dreams by marketing professionals or sales advertisements with a ticket like the picture below….

Now, who wouldn’t like the idea of firing their boss and creating a lifestyle of their dreams?

Most of us have been introduced to the idea of financial freedom from the book Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki. Well, it was what got me started too. Since then, if you had noticed, many marketers have been promoting the dream of achieving financial freedom in order to promote their trading workshops and online classes.

And so, we have been on a search to attain this dream, only to find that it is not as easy as it has been touted to be. In fact, we could end up in more struggle, feeling disenchanted and having lost a ton of money on scams. The dream of financial freedom has been turning out to be an enlusive one.

Is Financial Freedom A Great End-Goal?  

If this is the case for you, take a moment to reflect. Is financial freedom a great end goal? Why is its pursuit leaving you feeling more miserable than ever before?

Well, if we are to chase money solely and relentlessly as an end goal in itself, we would have missed out on what it means to live with greater happiness.

Financial freedom is not just about dollars and cents. Sure, the accounting aspect is important but it is just one factor in the pursuit of what it means to be financially free. What’s to know is that we can have money but not be happy or truly free. Or we find ourselves unhappy every day because we are “not there yet“.

Let’s hear it from the experts. I would like to quote three sources of what I feel embraces the meaning of living in true freedom.

A Life of True Freedom Means Being Free to Do What You Love

“The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he’s always doing both.”
– James A Michener

A Life of True Freedom is To Be Free to Be Who You Are and Do What You Want

“Financial freedom is much more than having money. It’s the freedom to be who you really are and do what you really want in life. And many of us, especially women, lose sight of this by putting others first and playing many different roles such as parent, spouse, employee, friend, and more.

If you want to be financially-free, you need to become a different person than you are today and let go of whatever has held you back in the past.  It’s a process of growth, improvement and gaining spiritual and emotional strength to become the most powerful, happy, and successful ‘you’ possible.

That is the true reward of financial freedom.”

Kim Kiyosakai

Financial Freedom is Freedom From Worry

“A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.” Suze Ozman

What True Financial Freedom Is

Indeed, what I have discovered is that true financial freedom is freedom at all levels. We are not weighed down by emotional burdens or have beliefs that hold us back from living in greater joy or fullness. On the other hand, we have healthy attitudes about living and that includes having a great relationship with money.

Along our journey to be financially free, it also helps that we do not make excuses if we are not there yet nor vilify those who do have it. We are present in the here and now. We are also free to express ourselves through the work that we love.

Obviously, to be financially free involves having money. What is important to know is that money, by itself, is not good or bad, it’s just money. Then again, how people use their money is most often what causes controversy. As conscious individuals, we can choose to direct the use of money to support worthy causes and to make wise decisions about them.

Money offers the opportunity for freedom. Freedom to do what we truly want in life. I’d also like to add that the journey also calls for an integration of our financial and spiritual (including mental and emotional) lives together. Only then will we experience  freeom that comes with abundance at all levels.

Love and abundance always,
Evelyn Lim

Abundance Wellness Coach

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