4. Limit your time with toxic people You are like 5 people you spend the most time with. Does that make you feel good or bad? Well, only you can do something about it. You don't have to talk to the office gossip except to get your work done. You don't have to attend events with people you don't like. When you choose to your time with toxic people, you will great people. And you run the very real risk of turning into a toxic person yourself (and there is no freedom down that road).
5. Get over yourself
To enjoy freedom, you have to manage the voices in your head, the ones that invite obsessive critique and worry over every little thing. Those voices have you so focused on yourself and what never get a chance to do anything right. No one else is thinking about you as could go wrong that much as you think they are. And even if you have an epic fall from grace in the most public of ways, we live in a 24-hour news cycle and you won't be infamous for long. Get over yourself, and you'll get over your limitations. And that's where you'll find your freedom.
6. Stay in touch
You know what freedom feels like? Hanging out with people you like. Having fun and making memories with really great people. That can't happen if you don't stay in touch or make time to see them. If it takes 3 months to set up a date with friends you like because of a calendar packed full of things you don't like nearly so much, you are not on the verge of freedom. If you don't have time to support your friends' projects or be there when they need you, you are very far from free. And probably a little lonely, too.