Time is a lot like shelving. When you have empty space, you want to fill it. Filling your time with the right responsibilities and being strategic about how yo

Time is a lot like shelving. When you have empty space, you want to fill it. Filling your time with the right responsibilities and being strategic about how you qualify what is a "right" responsibility relative to your personality, is "Doing It Right" IMHO. I would never turn in what I have now - I have a startup, a lot of responsibility, a structured day, obligations to fulfill, and people that look to me execute on my promises. More so than I ever have at any point in my life. Is it stressful sometimes? Sure it is. Do I have less freedom? Only in the sense that I knowingly structured these responsibilities and obligations in such a way that yes, they are binding, but they are also enhancing my ken ineffably. That is my ultimate goal, to ensure my responsibilities aren't void of meaning for me - I also aim to not repeat them and when I do it usually means I wasn't paying enough attention. The experience that you have less or more freedom is always relative. Freedom is always in the mind (sorry if that sounds wishy washy but my argument for that is not appropriately short for a comment). We are bound by our own nature, we are impelled by archetypal forces (psychologically, biologically) most of us aren't even conscious of and realizing that you can structure what responsibilities or obligations you think will serve you the most is exercising freedom in the face of that which you cannot change.