His five ways to create more freedom in your life. Welcome to the Paw miners podcast the show that will help you to optimize your time income and lifestyle fast get more done with actionable easy to follow advice and learn how to live life on your terms and now introducing your host Paul miners. Hey everyone and welcome back to the pool - podcast episode number 162 as always. It really is a pleasure to have you listings today today. I really do. Appreciate your time and your attention and today I am sharing five ideas on how you can create more freedom in your life. If you want to read the blog post that goes along with this episode and get access to the show notes and links. Are you can find those at Paul -.com / 162. So getting into it, we all want to be happy, right the we all want to be happier. I think it's safe to say that you know being happy is a good thing and most people would love to find out how to be happier if they can be so the trouble With just pursuing happiness and just saying be happy is that it's so vague happiness is so vague happiness comes from so many places. For example, you can get feelings of fulfillment and happiness from how you choose to spend your time like the work that you do the projects you take on happiness can come from removing stress and conflict from our lives. I think that will create more happiness happiness comes from relationships and feelings of contentment. So if I just tell you to be happy, it's not very helpful in. I think you need to focus on one of these kind of pre req prereq can't say that probably pre-requisites. That's a tricky word prerequisites to happiness. You need to focus on one of these things instead of just trying to be happy focus on the kind of building blocks of Happiness. So I could write a blog post or record a podcast about any one of these things. But today I'm going to talk about how for a focus on freedom will result in more happiness in your life and what you can do to create more freedom because I've you Freedom as a Prerequisite why do I struggle with that word so much prerequisite to happiness and as I've slowly introduce more freedom into my life over the last five years of building my business. I can say with confidence that I feel happier now that I've built more freedom. So what can you do to create freedom in your life? Well, firstly number one. I think it's good to try and have freedom around how and where and when you do your work whether you work for yourself or an employer if you can create more Freedom around your working conditions. I think it leads to more productivity and of course happiness because we all have different working Styles some of us prefer the quiet conditions of a library others, enjoy the hustle and bustle of working in a coffee shop. I know that I'm a morning person but other people do their best work at night. So however, you like to work find ways to try and create more freedom around those working conditions. Not only will you feel better, but I think the quality of your work will be greater and higher as well. Number two is to create Freedom through autonomy. If you can become more autonomous this enables more freedom and happiness and by autonomy, I mean your ability to make decisions and do things for yourself without having to get approval from others. Obviously, if you work for yourself again, this is a bit easier, but even as a salaried employee, you can talk to your boss about how to create more autonomy so that you can do things without bothering them and I think they will almost certainly support that idea if that if you're bothering them lesson if they can if there's things that you can agree on Where you can feel empowered to make decisions, I think that's a good thing for everyone autonomy could also mean literally automation of repetitive tasks. This is why I use tools like zapier and I've got links to my zapier training videos if you want to learn more about zapier, but this is why I love tools like zapier. If you can use technology to automate parts of your work, it frees up massive amounts of time and energy for other more productive Pursuits, and and I might use of zapier just continues to grow. It's amazing how much it does for me now and little mundane tasks that I was normally doing myself or Outsourcing. I've actually fully automated now and it saves everyone time creates more freedom and frees up my time for more important things. Number three to how to create more freedom. I'm creating freedom from responsibility. Now, I may get some push back here. But if you can reduce the people and things you are responsible for you will create more freedom in your life. Now, obviously, this is easier said than done and plays. I am not suggesting or expecting you to leave your partner or disown your children, but if you can remove yourself as a bottleneck and have fewer people rely on you for answers and direction this enables more freedom for everyone. So going back to The example I gave before instead of being the person seeking more autonomy. Like I mentioned if you help people to be more autonomous so they don't have to bother you. That's a good thing for you as well as for them and recently on my podcast. I actually talked about why I don't want to scale my business and part of that reason is I don't want the responsibility of having to employ people and the sacrifice. I may have to make to my freedom not that there's anything wrong with employing anyone. It's just a decision. I've made freedom for me. I want I want the increased freedom. I love not having that responsibility. Number for freedom from caring what other people think one of the key takeaways that I from everything I've learned about reading about stoicism various books and things that I've read is to disregard things that you can't control especially the opinions of other people trying to control what other people think about you is a pretty futile effort. Maybe you got off to the wrong foot got off on the wrong foot with someone. If you can mend a relationship, maybe you get off on the wrong foot if you can mend that relationship great, but if you've made a good effort And relationship, but you're not having any success move on, you know, stop caring what other people think and remove this mental weight from your shoulders and that it will create more Freedom by not having to worry about the opinions of other people seeking approval from other people all the time. And then finally fifth way to create more freedom create freedom freedom from saying no, so as you can imagine this is one of my favorites having the freedom to say no to ideas to projects or people that you don't want to work with or projects. You don't want to take on will result in less stress and more happiness and I'm a big believer that a great way to be happy. It is to have less to worry about saying no, of course. It isn't easy. We're social animals and we love to say yes to keep everyone happy. And saying no can be pretty difficult if the person asking you to do something is your boss who happens to pay your salary but saying no or at the very least challenging a request from your boss allows you to focus more on the things that you want to do and do things do those things really well rather than getting distracted by all these ideas all these projects and doing all of them a little bit or not, you know kind of averagely do a couple of things really well focus more of your effort on less and you will create more freedom. So Freedom comes from saying No, this is kind of a repetitive theme probably something you've heard of me talk about a lot on the podcast already. So those are my top 5 ways for creating more freedom in your life so number I'll just recap them again. Number one freedom to work. When and where you want analyzing your work conditions. Number two was creating Freedom through autonomy. Number three was freedom from responsibility reducing responsibilities. Not before was creating Freedom by of also a freedom from caring what other people think and number five is freedom to say no. So how have you tried to create more freedom in your life? I'm Keen to hear your ideas head on over to the blog poor manners.com / 160 to leave me a comment or reply to my newsletter. If you're on my email list, this is something that really excites me is like, how can I free up my time free energy free up my mental bandwidth to to work on other things and I want to hear your ideas. So get in touch. All right, hopefully that was useful today. Thank you very much for listening. As always. I appreciate your time and your attention and I will see you next. I'm on the poor miners podcast. Thank you very much for listening to the Paul minors podcast two quick things before I go firstly if you enjoyed this episode or if you have any feedback, please leave me a review on iTunes. 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We all want to be happy, right? But the trouble with pursuing happiness is that it’s so vague. Happiness comes from so many things. For example, feeling fulfilled by how we spend our time, removing stress and conflict from our lives, from relationships and feelings of contentment. If I just tell you to “be happy” that’s not very helpful. Instead, you need to focus on one of these prerequisites to happiness. I could write a blog post about either one of these things. But today, I’m going to talk about how a focus on freedom will result in more happiness in your life. Show notes » paulminors.com/162 Download my productivity blueprint and learn the processes and tools I use to be more organised and achieve more in my business and home life. You'll also get my FREE 3-part video training series where I'll explain 1) 4 simple steps to supercharge your productivity 2) common mistakes to avoid 3) the 10 productivity tools I couldn't live without. Download here » paulminors.com/products/productivity-blueprint/ If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to the podcast. Doing this will help more people discover the show so they to can get more done and get more out of life. 