7-9-07
Registration is open for my free Teleseminar: Exploring The Law of Attraction on Wednesday July 18th at 7:30EDT.
Independence Day
This is written before, but you’ll see it almost a week after Independence Day – our annual picnic & fireworks day. But to what degree do we think of it as a day that celebrates our independence?
We may pay attention to our national independence and our personal political independence, our civil liberties, our respect for other’s civil liberties and independence.
But what do you mean by independence, by your personal independence? This is complex and touches all aspects of our lives. It often underlies many people’s goals – not only to exercise independence, but to have others respond to it.
Do we give up independence with marriage and parenthood? To what degree do we control our independence in earning a living? When we have a job? When we own a business? When we’re professionals?
What’s our relationship between our independence and our wealth?
Do we exercise our independence when we work for a cause or do we give up some for it.
What’s the relationship between our independence and our community?
I think we rarely think about much of this, except at some decision points. Send me your thoughts about this.
Useful Quotes
I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
Madonna
Those who would joyously march in rank and file have already earned my contempt, for they were given a large brain by accident when a spinal chord would have sufficed.
Albert Einstein
Independence ? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
George Bernard Shaw
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
Charles A. Beard
It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
William Cobbett
There is often as much independence in not being led as in not being driven.
Tryon Edwards
Creative Corner
Being Free
I like to think I’m free
Being no one else but me
But it’d just not true
I really work for You
And, as is my wont,
I pretend I don’t
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