The external factors often control your life rather than you controlling it. For instance lots of your decisions are based on how much you can earn and how much you can buy and accumulate. Your desires control you too. Sometimes you cannot control your eating urges or your sexual compulsions. To really feel in control of your life and become your own boss you need to free yourself of all the things that control you and manipulate the way you live your life or take decisions.
You don’t really need a fleet of expensive cars and a cornucopia of gadgets and a big castle of a house to keep you happy. Just look around and see how miserable some of the richest people on the planet feel. Happiness is something that is internal. Of course your happiness depends a lot on your and your family’s financial security but after a point, how much do you actually need? Bill Gates (who recently took retirement) may be earning millions of dollars per day but can he actually spend that much money to buy himself happiness unless he is not able to feel happy from within?
Gradually, and strategically, you should get rid of all the things that needlessly control you and your outlook and only then you will be able to become your own boss and feel free. Read more in this Dumb Little Man post.
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