Welcome to Finding Our Freedom today is AUG 18th2020 and this is Episode 1
Title – Maslows Hierarchy of Needs
In 1587, Virginia Dare became the first child of English parents to be born in present-day America, on what is now Roanoke Island in North Carolina.
The Roanoke colony ended up mysteriously disappearing, becoming one of America's oldest mysteries. The mystery began in August of 1590 when John White, governor of the new province, who had sailed back to England to gather a fresh load of supplies returned. Once there he found his wife and daughter, his infant granddaughter (Virginia Dare), and the other settlers were gone. He found no trace of the colony or its inhabitants, and few clues to what might have happened, apart from a single word—"Croatoan"—carved into a wooden post.
Investigations into the fate of the "Lost Colony" of Roanoke have continued over the centuries, but no one has come up with a satisfactory answer.
We will probably never know what happened to them but must remember that they began the first English settlement later, leading to what is now the United States.
I find it fitting that on the first day that this PodCast air is the anniversary of the first recorded birth in what is now America. On Virginias' birthday, we start our journey to find more freedom in our lives.
I wanted to begin by talking about our need for additional freedom and the right to take care of our selves and our needs. This all is in line with Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Those wishing to control our decisions use it against us so we need to understand it for several reasons. First to gain control back into our own lives and then to recognize and defend against others trying to control our lives.
During this episode, I’ll be concentrating on the basic needs that we all have. I have a copy of the entire hierarchy in the podcast notes though. At the base, we have our physiological and safety needs. This includes where we get our food, warmth, rest, security, and safety from, and whoever controls this will control us. Until we can fulfill these needs we can’t move onto improving in other areas that we need. Many of us try to make ends meet through credit cards or other programs and we make our decisions based on those needs never improving in our lives. The more control we can take back the more freedom we will enjoy.
This is also why the more control we have over our finances the more freedom we have. By changing a few things in our lives moving away from using credit cards and other debt the more control we gain over our basic needs. Unfortunately, many people don’t realize how much control they don’t have, and every time something sounds like it might give them an edge in gaining control instead of thinking about it and weighing the advantages and disadvantages they jump right on the opportunity digging themselves in even deeper.
Instead of fulfilling the need for food by supplementing your food supply with a garden or other means people seem to concentrate on going to restaurants. There is a lot to be said for someone who learns to cook instead of popping a box of something in the oven or even worse getting it from a restaurant every night. By taking fresh ingredients and even better something you grew yourself and making something delicious you will find that you save money and feel better after each meal.
Fortunately, there are plenty of ways to get out of these traps. Most of which is through making wise decisions and putting away a little for the future.
Don’t you think it’s about time that we take our freedom back from those that would hold it.
