To actualize your freedom, you need to create value. Contrast this against Step 1 Freedom where people sacrifice for a noble cause. Often the result is a painful loss of value. Unless positive results are produced, the net result is a drain on everyone stuck in the step.
In this step (Freedom Step #7), you learn how to apply your personal power to produce and multiply value. You discover what works and what doesn't. You discover what is useful and what isn't. You discover what people want and don't want. You discover what is valuable. You begin to discover some of what you can produce.
There are many people who philosophically know nothing about freedom. But they are productive in creating value. In return for value created, they earn lots of money that provides them the options to do much of what they want. They may enjoy a great deal of freedom.
Then there are many Step 1 Freedom lovers who use their "lack of freedom" as a scapegoat for being unproductive. They moan and complain because BIG BAD GOVERNMENT curtails their freedom and prevents them from being productive. They get together for Step 1 Freedom conventions where they moan and complain about how bad everything is. They're almost like hungry, cold, wet, helpless victims huddling together around a little fire in a cave where they get a little warmth (for a change!) and make each other feel good - "charging our batteries", they call it.
Taking Freedom Step #7 involves shifting from being unproductive to being productive - or from productive to more productive. For some it's a shift from talking about freedom to actually living freedom. You implement practical freedom in the way you live and do business.
Other aspects of productivity are setting goals and time management.
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