430: The Contradiction of Freedom

Achieve Your Goals with Hal Elrod

Hal Elrod

Education, Self-improvement, Business

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🗓️ 18 May 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Outer freedom gives you the ability to create the circumstances that you want for your life. Inner freedom allows you to enjoy your life, regardless of the circumstances.

These concepts exist in an inherent conflict with one another. When we pursue outer freedom, there's a part of us that feels like our life could be better, and when we focus on our inner freedom, part of us celebrates the fact that life's perfect, exactly as it is.

So, how do we address that contradiction? In today's episode, I want to show you how to get everything you want for your life while enjoying what you already have. By the end of our time together, I hope to help you reconcile these conflicting emotions and discover why your life is perfect–regardless of your circumstances.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Why almost everyone would prefer to improve their circumstances rather than be perfectly content with what they already have.
Why the life you think you want won't make you happier but will eventually lead you back to the hedonic treadmill.
How to shift your mindset, have it all, and be at peace with life exactly as it is, even while feeling a sense of urgency to create the life you want.
Why "Life is perfect" is one of my favorite affirmations, even in my hardest times, and how adversity serves to help us evolve.
The power of choosing to experience inner freedom in the present while looking to be even better in the future.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Achieve Your Goals podcast, the show that empowers you to wake
0:06.1	up to your full potential and achieve your biggest goals and dreams.
0:09.5	I am your host, Hal Elrod, and I invite you to join us each week as we share actionable
0:14.2	strategies to take your life to the next level, as well as interview world-class experts
0:19.0	and entrepreneurs who have achieved extraordinary goals themselves and we ask them to give you
0:23.8	a peek behind the curtain and teach you exactly what you need to do to do the same.
0:28.2	Ready?
0:30.2	Welcome to the Achieve Your Goals podcast, this is your host, Hal Elrod, and thank you
0:35.8	for tuning in today.
0:36.8	I appreciate you being here and listening and today we are going to explore the contradiction
0:43.5	between outer freedom and inner freedom and the title of the episode today is Your Life
0:48.2	is Perfect and we're going to get there.
0:50.3	It's going to be a journey to get to how your life is perfect but what actually prompted
0:55.9	in today's episode was last night going to bed.
0:59.1	I had a realization around the two types of freedom, outer freedom which is being able
1:03.8	to create the circumstances that you want for your life, inner freedom which is being able
1:07.6	to enjoy your life regardless of your circumstances.
1:11.0	There's a contradiction between the values and attributes for each in short, well we're
1:15.7	going to explore this today but just in short by exploring or I should say pursuing outer
1:22.1	freedom, you're literally pursuing making your life different which inherently would suggest
1:30.3	would embody a way of not being the way that it could be or should be, right?
1:35.2	Our life's not good enough as it is, now I'm not satisfied, I'm not happy so I got to
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