So what's the cause of your problems? Why are you so dissatisfied? It must be someone else's fault, right?

Wake up.

It's your fault and it always has been. This should sound quite brutally upright, it most certainly is my fault that I have these problems as well. It's ultimately you who chooses what and who you bring into your life, or at least how you respond to it all. Don't succumb to a discontent life just because you feel a lack of liberty, realize right now that you are sitting in the driver's seat, I just ask that you take the wheel. Embark on a trail which differs from your usual one and define your own optimum by first identifying what it is that is stopping you from doing so. Think of the title "deterrents" as that which prevents, slows, demotivates or ultimately stops you from achieving what you want; from attaining what you want to have.

Its up to you. Don't ever settle. Always strive for more... you live this once.