Don't send your freedom to jail

July 29, 2011 in Personal Development with 3 Comments

“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” –John F. Kennedy



Would you expect this sentiment from a politician?  Don’t they all try to get us to conform?

 

Here’s another quotation for today:

“If you don’t have a successful role model to emulate, then just look at what everybody else is doing and don’t do it.” — Earl Nightingale~

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  • Cindy Hirch

    Love the quotes Dan!

  • Bryan Hart

    This reminded me to the Nightingale illustration about being ahead of the convoy. Do you want to follow the pack, as slow and cumbersome as it is, by conforming to the “the way things are”? Or do you want to be “so far ahead of that convoy that they can’t even see your dust?”

  • Eosman

    A couple Dan quotes:

    “Your life has meaning only when you are working toward goals that you have decided on.”  
    “The best way to predict your future is to create it.”

    The power of goals makes sense to me, mentally.  But the idea (or the feeling I get) of writing down specific, defined, detailed, and measurable goals somehow, for some reason, runs counter to something within me.  My first impulse is to withdraw, and I’m not really sure why.  I’m somewhat of a free spirit and do not want to wake each day to a prepared script.  But why is that?  Is that because I want to be in control?  (But that’s exactly what a plan will do for me, put me in control!”  Can each new day be looked upon as a new discovery?  Is living “in the moment”, lighthearted and with spontaneity, a meaningless life?  Why does a written plan feel confining to me?  

    The goal setting strategies from Dan and Dave Ramsey: “have a written plan for your life”; “spend each dollar on paper at the first of the month” should bring peace and security, right?  Why does it “feel” like it’s a prerecorded life and then I push play?  Each day I am so thankful for God’s Grace.  But I live my Christian life (very heavy) on the liberty side.  I need to learn that a plan is liberating!

    I’m a new listener, and I’m still learning. 

    David