If I Had A Million Dollars

Activities to do: Type "Freedom" on Google and see what you get and then analyze what does freedom mean to you.

Yes, I am talking about freedom. It has different nuances to different people, however after talking to so many people one thing which commonly comes up is that all the people are worried about their finances. Just sit back and think what you could do if you have a million dollars? The answer is you can do what ever you want to do with that million dollars(million dollars is used as figurative speech for a lot of money). However, that is not the focus of this blog. It is a self evident truth that with a lot of money anybody can buy a lot of stuff... but there is one more thing that money brings and that is "financial freedom."

We live in a free world and free society.We have freedom to sleep, eat, wander around and practice our religion. But is this what freedom means or it is just state of mind?Just think: why do you need to work for somebody when you are free ? Just to earn money, right? This make us dependent on others and where there is dependency there is no absolute freedom. So, now the question is are we really free or do we pretend to be free? We all are worried about the finances all the time, house mortgage, car payment, child expenses and credit card debt etc are modern days shackles which will snatch freedom from an individual.

Just imagine a day without worrying about finances. It is good isn't it? Yeah, but what we do in order to get that freedom? Before talking about it I will talk a wee bit about economy. Since last year we all have seen the global economic recession. So many people get laid off, because of layoffs everybody got scared and as the consequence mostly stop spending and start saving. I was watching tube the other day, they had a commercial which stated " in this hard times we all will be going back to basics" true, doesn't it? It explains why we are in economic recession. People just don't want to spend money on the things they think as luxury or something they thought they don't need now, but can wait to get it till the economy gets better(This is just an observation). So it just simply create a huge attrition in demand , with low demand less supply. so when we don't have supply why we need workers and hence more layoffs and the vicious cycle continues. So, the question is everybody getting poor during this time? I will say no, people who had financial freedom they were able to face it more intelligently and were not effected by it however people who were not financially free were the most effected ones.


But often the thought comes what we do to get "financial freedom"I will say just think what can we do to attain it. It is not the rocket science it is just the willingness to reach to a level and take initiative. Once the mindset is changed then we will start noticing thing which were always there but invisible to us.

In the end I will wrap up with this thought
"All kinds of freedoms (i.e Freedom of thoughts or deeds) pretty much dependent upon on the foundation of financial freedom in today's world".

cheers
Mragendra