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Which Freedoms Will You Create?

The following is an excerpt from the book Get Paid For Who You Are.

You may want more time, to be closer to your family, financial abundance, creative expression, or a combination of freedoms. Which freedom is most important to you?

Jon is a good earner and saver, and he likes the large amount of vacation time his corporate accounting job offers. However, he’d love to work from a home office or while traveling, rather than being confined to a cube at work. A website presence could lead to location freedom for him.

Janet earns a good living as a landscape architect. She also feels that two weeks of travel a year is plenty. But she’d like to cut her work hours from 40 to 20 per week, to spend more time with her family. an internet business can give her time freedom.

trent Hamm, who you’re going to hear about in a little while, felt the financial wolves howling at his door, and do you know what? Today he has financial freedom, and he created it.

Is it Okay to Have so Much Freedom?

The following is an excerpt from the book Get Paid For Who You Are.

If you’re like most people, you grew up thinking you’d have to work 40 to 50 hours a week, 50 weeks a year, before you could take time off and play. In addition, you might have learned that work is something you must put up with to earn money and that loving what you do is nice but not a priority.

I hope you’ll start to consider a new possibility — that maybe it’s okay to work a lot less and have a lot more play in your life. In this day and age, you can actually get paid for doing something you really love. Perhaps you’re already seeing that a lifestyle of freedom is possible for you and beginning to feel a growing desire to create it.

The Four Freedoms

The following is an excerpt from the book Get Paid For Who You Are.

You can create a lifestyle of:

Location Freedom

The ability to live or travel anywhere in the world, including the simple joy of working from home.

Time Freedom

Being able to choose to work five days a week, or one.

Financial Freedom

Not having to check the prices when you buy things that bring joy to you and those you love and not having to worry about money again.

Inner Freedom

The freedom to be yourself, and to share what you know and love with the world.

What’s your Gypsy Index?

What’s your Gypsy Index?

Add up your score out of 100.

1) Financial Freedom

___ (0-5) I have 6 months of living expenses in a savings account

___ (0-5) I am debt free

___ (0-5) I earn more money than I spend (my savings are going up)

___ (0-5) I have enough money to buy everything I need

___ (0-5) I have enough money to buy at least 80% of the things I want

___ (max 25)

2) Geographic Freedom

___ (0-5) I work at an outside office less than 2.5 days a week

___ (0-5) Out of the entire world, I’m living in one of my top three preferred cities.

___ (0-5) If I choose, I can easily be away from my home town for 1 month per year.

___ (0-5) If I choose, I can easily be away from my home town for 6 months per year.

___ (max 20)

3) Time Freedom

___ (0-5) I can and do take at least four weeks a year off work (or 10 weeks, working half the time).

___ (0-5) I can and do take at least 10 weeks a year off work (OR I LOVE the work I do).

___ (0-5) I work no more than 3 days a week.

___ (0-5) I REALLY enjoy my spare time.

___ (0-5) I absolutely LOVE the work I do

___ (max 25)

4) Inner Freedom

___ (0-5) I tell the truth always, regardless of how I will be seen, or the consequences

___ (0-5) I accept and embrace all of who I am, including my faults. I see myself as perfect, warts and all. I do not need or want myself to change.

___ (0-5) I accept and love my entire current life situation, in relationship, health & body, money, and living environment. I do not need or want my situation to change.

___ (0-5) I do not need or want anyone in my life to change; I want them to be exactly as they are.

___ (0-5) I am always happy and at peace, and rarely worry.

___ (0-5) I feel complete with everyone who every upset or wronged me, and everyone I ever upset or wronged.

___ (max 30)

Post your score out of 100!

What are TWO actions you will take to increase your score, and by when?