{"id":2664,"date":"2013-07-10T03:00:50","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T07:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/lettinggo\/?p=2664"},"modified":"2013-07-06T23:24:13","modified_gmt":"2013-07-07T03:24:13","slug":"making-a-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/2013\/07\/making-a-living.html","title":{"rendered":"Making a Living"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Question:<\/b> For years now I have not been happy with myself because the lifestyle I want to live is not want I am living. I have heard it said that if you are not financially free by the time you are forty or fifty, it does not mean that you are living in the wrong country or the wrong time, it simply\u00a0means that you have the wrong plan. Any time I think about that idea, I become unhappy because I am not living the lifestyle I want to live. For me to be happy in life is to achieve financial freedom. Can you help?<\/p>\n<p><strong> Answer: <\/strong>In itself, there is nothing wrong with wanting\u00a0financial freedom, but it isn&#8217;t what you really want. What you really want is freedom from a mind that torments you\u00a0every time it compares itself to the lives of others it imagines are happy because of what they possess. Truth be known, these people are possessed by a kind of spirit that can never be satisfied, as evidenced by the fact that there is no end to their appetite for more, and in this cycle is the seed of greed. Seek first freedom from fear and find there, in interior liberty, the fulfillment that only Truth can give. Then, in this new richness, you will be able to do what you really want and, without doubt, be successful there because you have first\u00a0succeeded as a human being.<\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\n<\/b><i><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: For years now I have not been happy with myself because the lifestyle I want to live is not want I am living. 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