Time and Energy

Freedom is not the absence of constraints. It is a sense of autonomy and consent. The ability to make decisions. The feeling that you are seen, and matter. All decisions are made inside containers and with consequences. How much do you value time? How much do you value being paid a lot? Many of the ways to make lots of money will consume your time and energy on problems that are not your priority. It's not about you. 

You can get to a situation where weekends and holidays are where you get access to your community. Where your job becomes your weight-of-time-and-energy community, and your life. Be honest about what the life you are designing will really look like. Speak to as many people as possible who are doing what it is you think you want to do. Map it out. See what the barriers and trade-offs are for you. Have honest conversations about the advantages and disadvantages of the paths you are considering. 

As you go through life, there are people at similar stages to you who make different choices. Then a few years later, their stage will no longer be similar. Yet we will only see the conspicuous. Tangible success is easy to share. We are not completely open and authentic about each other’s struggles. Partly because we only have so much emotional capacity. We are dealing with our own stuff. Opening up is a “call to arms”, and so the barriers we put up make a lot of sense. Trusting and allowing each other to deal with our personal struggles, and shout only if necessary.

Source and Use 

of Energy