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That’s been the theme with clients this week. Whether it’s the leaving of a relationship or in beginning a new one. Sometimes it’s being left behind when the other leaves. Still freedom rings true.

There is some fear surrounding freedom. Fear that we will lose out on an opportunity if we choose this or that. If we commit, our choices become limited. Freedom can come in the commitment. Freedom can remain with no commitment. There is a cost though to both.

The adage that ‘Freedom is never free’ is also true. The cost we pay to remain where we are vs. the cost to choose differently. Sometimes that cost is money. Other times the cost is in stress, anxiety or even in what might be lost. Which comes when we don’t make a choice at all. We let enough time go by and eventually the choice will be made for us. That result is usually not even close to what we wanted or how we would have achieved it if we had stepped into it.

I think one of the greatest fears surrounding freedom is that we can choose, and the choices are unlimited. It’s those potentially pesky consequences that get in the way.

But there’s another part to freedom. If we choose and the result is not what we had hoped for, we have the freedom to change our mind. To try another opportunity.

This 4th of July, consider your freedoms and the costs of that freedom. Then grill a burger, have some lemonade and watch the fireworks sparkle across the sky.