• You wake up to an alarm.
• You check your phone.
• You reply to messages out of obligation.
• You work a job you don’t love.
• You say yes to things you don’t want to do.

Not because you have to. But because you feel you should.

Rules, regulations and laws do not trap you. Unwritten rules you never questioned trap you.

Try this today: Say no to something small and notice what stops you.

• Skip an unnecessary meeting → Do you feel guilty?

• Decline an invite that drains you → Do you fear disappointing someone?

• Stop overexplaining yourself → Do you crave approval?

The hesitation you get is what controls you.

Absolute freedom is not doing whatever you want. It is questioning the rules you have been blindly following.

Are you in control or just following orders you can not even see?