I cannot help but post this video... a like-minded friend that is all about trying to live with warriorship sent it to me. Now the ideas are not new but I do like the way Adam approaches the things in this life that hold us down. There are others out there that speak on the same thing but the end message is a little different. Check it out.
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I know it was a little long for a video on a blog but I enjoyed his straight forward, honest style. The reason I say Adam is a little different is that even though he is speaking about being debt free like many others out there do, especially in the Christian circles, his end game is much different and I believe deeper.
The question he poses of what is freedom to you, is powerful at the very least. How many of us really think about it? I know I have thrown out the idea of being passionate about what we do for our careers and I believe this goes hand in hand with that.
To be a practitioner of warriorship we must at times narrow our scope and focus on the things that are holding us back more so than the things that we believe are helping us.
I am a firm believer that living in America has transformed us into consumers and not people who live out dreams. Somewhere down the line stuff and things have replaced dreams and unfortunately that is what we build our financial life around.
I know that it is a deep desire of mine and my families to get out of debt and the kicker is to make sure that when we do that our end game is not to have that freedom to waste money again even without the debt.
Adam's deep perspective of what true freedom is falls right in line with how I think warriorship works. Questions must be asked and then answered on an individual level and it must be a desire for it to foster change.
Why do we work? What do we spend our money on? Are we happy? Are we truly free?
Live to purchase experiences... I like the way that sounds.