DOER

Do what you need to do then you will be free to do what you want to do. Taking care of your responsibilities opens up possibilities but the neglect of them produces liabilities. Things that need to be done, if left undone, cause problems and pain which tend to restrain and are a drain your gain.

Personal freedom does not come from of the absence of responsibility but from responsibility fulfilled. Without work first, there’s only debt no pay, and in a deficit it’s hard to play.

One of the best things you can do is teach others to be responsible too; especially your children and others that are under your authority. Allowing irresponsibility feeds futility and supports slavery. If you do what others could do and should do for themselves then you create codependency. You take the key to their freedom and become the warden of their life. And then, neither of you or they are free, all because of misplaced responsibility.

On the other hand if you expect others to do for you what you could do and should do for yourself then you become the slave – in bondage weak – with outlook bleak.

So first, do what you need to do, and teach others to too, then you’ll liberate, and be free to do, what you wanna do.

James 1:22-25
22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; 24 for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. 25 But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.
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