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Choosing Real Freedom

by Stephen Mills August 14, 2010
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I have been a slave to the tyranny of my own mind. I’ve done it to myself. I have been missing something that very few people achieve or even know exists – Psychological Freedom. Psychological freedom is the freedom to choose our own state of minds. It’s freedom that comes from not reacting to what is external to us with fear, want, worry, stress, frustration, anger, jealousy, depression, or hurt.

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Life Advice In a Nutshell

by Stephen Mills August 2, 2010
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If you cannot spend at least several hours every day doing something for no other reason than you want to do it, then I consider that slavery. Drop commitments like they are poison. Avoid spending yourself into slavery (see below). Absolutely do your own thing and not what anyone else thinks you should do, whether that anyone is society, your family, or your partner.

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Getting To Freedom by Working the System

by Stephen Mills February 22, 2010
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The bottom line is that for those things you have to do, those things for which a repeatable process can be used, you create a system that is deadly efficient and as automatic as possible. In this way you burn through those necessary tasks with maximum speed and efficiency and that frees up the rest of your time to do what you want. In my case that means no planning and no organization. Instead I do whatever I feel like doing and in the way I like to do it: playing, tinkering, and creating.

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A Values-Based Approach to Goals

by Stephen Mills December 2, 2009
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I used to have a goal that said I wanted to have to be rich and to me than meant having X million dollars. When I asked myself why I wanted to be rich, the answer was because I wanted freedom and I wanted stuff. I thought then and I still do that money can buy you freedom that people with less money don’t have. I’m not sure I want the stuff anymore. Regardless of whether you agree or not, the key point here is that money is not really a value to me. Money is a goal and the value is freedom. That’s a core value to me and has been for as long as I can remember.

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How To Be Free, Happy, and Successful – Part I

by Stephen Mills September 9, 2009

This article contains a collection of bits of wisdom on freedom, happiness, success, and a few other topics.
Be Extraordinary
Being extraordinary is something that anyone can do no matter what it is you do.  You don’t have to be in any particular job or circumstance to be extraordinary and make a difference in your world.  It’s [...]

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Paying the Price to Get Out

by Stephen Mills August 8, 2009
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Everything you do has a price. Everything you don’t do has a price. There is no free lunch despite the fact that many in our modern world think there so. You pay a price to change and you pay a price to maintain the status quo. The price you pay may be in the form of money, time, stress, health, a confrontation, loss of friendship, loss of material things, or anything else for which you have value.

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Surrender to the Chaos

by Stephen Mills August 3, 2009
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Life is getting more and more complicated. There are more people, more cares, more things, more activities, more complications, and more choices. Even if you live in the wilderness, if you are reading this blog you are participating to some degree in modern chaotic life.

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The Problem With People – They’re Not Perfect

by Stephen Mills August 1, 2009
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When you boil it all down, most “problems” people have are with other people.  Directly or indirectly it is our fellow human beings that are the force behind many of our daily hassles.
You can’t solve the people issues by isolating yourself from everyone else.  In addition to being the source of most of our pain, [...]

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A Little Dose of Truth and Reality

by Stephen Mills July 30, 2009
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Yes, you can have freedom in an unfree world, you can be happy in a country of unhappy people, and you can make good money in a bad economy. But you aren’t going to have any of that or achieve your dreams by changing the world or by changing anyone in particular.

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Edit Your Life

by Stephen Mills July 17, 2009
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One of the problems with editing your life and cutting things out, is that it is so easy to rationalize and justify all your current actions. They must be necessary right? We couldn’t possibly stop doing something because the world would then come to an end. Somebody is going to shriek in fear at your selfishness; the selfishness you show by refusing to cater to their selfishness any longer.

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