Let's continue our look at building freedom into our physical lives!

Computers and Technology

1. Do you or another person in your home know how to competently use the technology in your house?
2. Your WIFI system, any “smart” appliances, etc?
3. What technology in your house is tracking, recording, or making you vulnerable?
4. Do you know how to disconnect it or stop it from sharing your personal information?
5. Do you have good anti-virus protection that you keep active?
6. Do you have strong passwords that you change regularly?
7. Do you have your passwords written down or able to access somewhere else in case your computer dies?
8. In case of your death, does your estate executor or family have access to these passwords?
9. Do you keep your personal information cleaned up and deleted off websites?
10. Do you regularly shred your paperwork, airline bag tags, hotel key cards, receipts, etc.?
11. Do you understand who might want your information and how to prevent that?
12. Keep up on the latest scams and don’t be naïve about what the gov’t might already be tracking you with
13. Be aware it your town and neighbors are using cameras and where that video and data is being used or stored
14. Do you have a good “techie security” person that you “follow” for advice?
15. Make sure you also are not voting for more tech tracking!
16. If you own a larger property, how can you smartly use technology to help protect your property from thieves, trespassers, or when someone drives through your fence?

Growing, Using, Preserving Food

1. Do you know how to garden or raise a few basic vegetable and herb plants?
2. What is your skillset level with cooking?
3. Can you bake bread?
4. Cook all kinds of meats, using different methods?
5. Cook with or without a recipe?
6. Bake a variety of items, as well as understand the science behind baking so in case you need to make something without a common ingredient?
7. What are your skillsets with food preservation?
8. Do you know how to water bath or pressure can?
9. Do you know how to prepare foods for freezing or dry storage?
10. Do you know some basic nutrition needs for humans and animals?
11. Do you know the basics of proper food safety in both storage and preparation?
12. Do you know how to source fresh and shelf stable foods from local farmers and ranchers?

Bartering, Trading, Negotiating and Creating Money

A physical skill set that is very powerful in aiding our physical freedom is the ability to barter, trade, negotiate, and create money when needed. How do you feel about those things? Does it excite you or make you cringe a bit in fear?

Being able to barter and trade can be a great tool in aiding in our physical freedom. Sometimes we may be short on money and these tools can really help. The big keys to be successful in bartering and trading are:

1. Both parties must agree happily that an equal exchange is taking place
2. This will vary by person and situation, but be very clear that BOTH parties must be in happy agreement with the exchange
3. Goods can be traded for other goods, or for service and vice versa
4. Honesty & integrity must be valued and embodied consistently in both parties
5. The exchange should be made as close as possible to help reduce fear, doubt, or potential fraud. For example, if trading goods, try to trade the goods at the same time. If it’s goods for services trade, make sure the service is already scheduled or as close to receiving the goods as possible. Don’t wait 6months or a year as it can build up resentment and fear energy.
6. Don’t do future exchanges until the “balance sheet” is free and clear after each exchange.
7. Receipts or tracking can be used, but both parties must agree to it.
8. Take time to really understand what matters to each party
9. Operate from the mindset that you are both there to help each other and be of value to each other, versus taking advantage of each other.
10. Communicate openly and directly and don’t play mental games.
11. Bartering usually happens in a few short sentences. It shouldn’t take months or require an outside party UNLESS it’s a big trade, like property exchanges.

I’ll share a good example of a barter I made one time. I had moved to a new state and needed some work done on my truck. I was young and very low on cash after moving. I also didn’t know who to trust to work on my truck in this new town. I worked with a gentleman at my office who loved to work on cars, and I knew him to be trustworthy. He loved the baked goods that I often brought to the office. We agreed to exchange my baked goods for him fixing my car. This is how the deal worked out:

- I paid him money/cash for the parts he needed to buy

- He gave me a dollar estimate of what his labor on my car would be; I would cover that value by my baked goods

-I had to price homemade baked goods so I knew how much to “trade” in exchange for his labor services; I wrote it out and he agreed to the certain amount of baked goods, such as cakes, muffins, breads, and cookies that would be delivered every Monday for 6 weeks.

-He fixed my truck all in one weekend

-We wrote it down on a simple piece of paper and at the end of 6 weeks, we both shook hands and signed the paper that the deal was completed

We kept it simple and straightforward and completed it in a timely manner. We both were happy at the beginning, middle, and end of the exchange.

I’ve also traded my energy healing sessions and coaching for yardwork with a lawn care business. The possibilities are endless! Keep it simple and direct, make sure BOTH parties are happy throughout the exchange, and above all, be honest, keep your word, and deliver well on your promises.

CREATING Money

It is vitally important that everyone knows HOW to create money in their life. So often we trade time for money with our regular jobs, but we don’t know how to initiate creating money. Notice your emotional and physical re-action to this statement. Sometimes we need to go get a job, or a 2nd job, but what would you do if there were no “jobs” available?

1. What skills do you have that you could offer in exchange for money?
2. How would you create income or money around these skills
   1. For example, maybe you love to clean; how could you create money by offering your cleaning skills to other people?
3. How can you create money with assets you already have?

I could write volumes on this subject, but for now, plant this idea in your imagination and begin to see how you could create money in your life.

There are endless things and skillsets that we could talk about in the physical freedom space. The most important thing is for you to honestly evaluate where you are at and what are your biggest risks. We don’t want to operate in fear, but out of wisdom and discernment.

Another important factor in physical freedom that we often overlook is in federal, state, and local laws and regulations. Be aware when legislation or regulations want to take away someone’s physical freedom, such as “right to repair’ laws for farm equipment and diesel engines, or that you have to have a certification to fix something on your own property, transactions that limit cash, or self defense, etc. These things get stuck in other bills all the time and no one has a clue that it happened.

What physical skill set would you add to this list as something worth having?

Here’s to greater freedom in all our lives, in every way! Blessings all!