In 2009 I quit a corporate job because I wanted to be FREE.
11 years later I can say that I have understood what freedom really is. And what it isn’t.

FREEDOM is not merely having lots of money in your bank account.
Or lots of time on hand.
Although both matter like hell!

FREEDOM means feeling powerful about your CHOICES.
FREEDOM means having CONTROL over your life.
FREEDOM means being in ANY SITUATION and believing that you can CAUSE whatever outcome you want.

Today, I don’t live in the fanciest house or drive the fanciest car. I don’t even have the kind of bank balance most of my schoolmates or college mates have.
But today I can choose WHAT work I want to do, WHEN I want to do it, HOW I want to do it, with WHOM I want to do it, WHERE I want to do it and WHY I want to do it. THAT IS FREEDOM.

1) BE REALLY GOOD in what you do. One client from Singapore signed up with me last week with his eyes closed. He told me, “I want you to coach me because my friend told me there is Life before Milind and Life after Milind.”
You know, you have to be that good that people will swear by your work. Work hard on yourself. You have to be one of the best, if not the best in your field. Look at your talents and ask yourself, “What can I be the best at?”
Change your field, change your domain if you have to. Take a huge leap. If you sell Pani Puri, it has to be best goddamn Pani Puri on the planet. Your professional competence is your passport to freedom.

2) Freedom almost always comes at the cost of Security. You have to make yourself SUPER STRONG, so strong that external circumstances don’t affect you. Work on your mental fitness. Tell yourself, “I create my own Security.”

3) You have to be PATIENT. Freedom doesn’t happen overnight. For years together, I slogged my you-know-what off to be in this position. And I didn’t quit. Freedom is not for quitters.

Take action my friend. You have one life. This year it is Covid. Next year God knows what. Don’t wait for the ‘right’ time. I broke free in the middle of the 2009 recession. When are YOU going to break free?