The secret to happiness is freedom, and the secret to freedom is courage – Thucydides
President Franklin Roosevelt spoke about four freedoms: the freedom of speech & expression; the freedom of worship; the freedom from want and the freedom from fear. I’m reminded on this day, those freedoms don’t come without a cost… a personal cost, a regional cost, and a national cost.
History shows the path to liberty invariably involves conflict. Conflict doesn’t always mean a war or a fight, it can be a regional or local challenge or your personal circumstances. So whatever your fighting and whether you are serving in politics as a local elected official, working in a local food shelter, volunteering at a local school, walking the beat as a constable, firefighter or EMT or serving in our armed forces know that your acts of service uphold and extend the very best of freedom in America.
For my friends in real estate sales, we are blessed to serve so many families in buying, selling or investing in real estate. We each have the freedom of the same 24 hours. Are you investing those hours to be the best version of you? Are you serving your community at the highest level? Take a look at what my friend JP Piccinini wrote about the 7 S’s of success… those same principles could be the 7 S’s of freedom. The choice is yours.
I think we all take for granite so many things in our lives. Especially, when you go through something that wakes you up and makes you realize how truly blessed we are in this country. My new career with Real Estate is something I take very seriously and pray to the man upstairs every day that it’s the right path for me. It does not come easy, it takes a tremendous amount of hard work, lots of dedication and just realizing that you have to continue going forward even though you’re going to have lots of things that can bring you down. Just remember no matter what, we are extremely blessed in so many ways to live in this country, please don’t take anything for granite because everything comes at a cost.