Discussion:
Making full use of your freedom involves first eliminating the constraints that limit your freedom. Here's a useful approach to beginning this process:
1. Identify some of the important external constraints, limitations on your options that are imposed by people or circumstances outside of you. Are there people in your life who actively seek to limit your freedom? Are you locked into situations that present limited opportunities? After identifying some of the significant external constraints. identify ways to diminish their impact on your freedom by either modifying or eliminating them.
2. Evaluate the extent to which you are passively content to choose from a limited selection of alternatives that are presented to you. Identify several situations to begin actively creating your own possibilities.
3. Identify some of the important internal constraints in your life by identifying behaviors that
• you feel are out of your conscious control.
• add negative results to your life.
• you cannot provide a rational explanation for.