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Stealing freedom

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Those who try to control others are often frustrated by the inability to focus on their own challenges in life. They feel the solution to their woes is to see others as the person to blame and change.

Trying to control others is only going to lead to stealing someone else’s freedom of choice. Imposing your will on others is denying you the chance to live your life, to focus on what you have and what is important to you, and it restricts the freedom of others.

Happiness comes when you allow others to be free and you free yourself from the burden that is manipulation.

Inspire yourself by focusing on your freedom, focusing on what matters to you and by stepping away from issues that are outside our control.

Live without the stress and the effort of the futility of trying to engineer things that we can not. Short-term we can manipulate and coerce others, but longer term it is our own happiness that builds the right life for us and attracts the right people who want to be part of our journey because they have chosen to.

Freedom of choice is the most precious gift of life, keep yours safe and don’t steal others.

Allowing others to control us is one of the biggest injustice you can do to yourself. Love yourself, be kind to yourself, choose your own happiness first and step away from anyone who can’t respect that and who tries to stop that.

Chocolate

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Today is Easter Sunday in the UK and a gorging of chocolate is what will occur across most of the country. Most of that chocolate will come from giant food corporations, where the stakeholders will reap the lion’s share of the reward, sadly not the workers.

In 1879, two Quakers George and Richard Cadbury founded a new model greenfield village near Birmingham, called Bournville, that they built for the expansion of their chocolate business.

The two businessmen (that’s entrepreneurs for any of you hustlers reading this) wanted to build something for their workers that was a real contrast to the squalid conditions of much of urban Britain during the 1800’s.

The welfare and health of their workforce were of high importance to them.

Today, the business they founded, loved and that they grew into one of the most famous chocolate brands, known around the world, is now part Mondelez, a giant global food corporation, where their corporate ‘values’ will be etched onto the walls of some faceless global HQ building.

There are a number of other examples of philanthropic business people who cared about the wellbeing of their workers in 18 & 1900’s.

Now the industrialised machine has become so fixated with profit and productivity enhancements, that they only concern themselves with wringing the most out the assets, including mainly their human assets (aka as people), that there is little consideration for a modern day Bournville.

Great business people care about their most important asset – you, their worker. She is what makes businesses great, ask George and Richard Cadbury.