Freedom Challenge #2: What Is Holding You Back From Feeling More Free? (SBD to 3 Winners!)

Hello freedom seekers! Are you ready for a new #FreedomChallenge?

I have been on a steemit hiatus due to traveling and taking much needed downtime away from the computer... but I had to come back out of the woodwork to post this challenge!

The 1st Freedom Challenge contest garnered a lot of interested, excitement and genuine responses. They were amazingly heartfelt and very personal. It humbled me to read your words. You can read the 1st Freedom Challenge responses here.

The 1st Freedom Challenge was my first steemit contest and I quickly discovered some challenges with paying out the full post reward as SBD. While 50% of the rewards are paid as steem power, it is difficult to calculate the exact value of that steem power reward in SBD at the time of payout.

If you are curious learn more about how steem payouts are calculated (thanks to @pennsif for the link!). I had to read it about 3 times to make sense of it. I'm glad I now understand the payout system better, but rather than making a complicated way of calculating the reward for this challenge I decided to change the reward to a fixed SBD to keep things nice and simple!

I am also keeping with the theme of 3 winners!

Thank you @mountainjewel, @schoonercreek, @canadianrenegade, @cecicastor, @senorcoconut and @cabelindsay for your feedback regarding length of time between contests. It sounds like 2-3 weeks is enough time to digest the content between Freedom Challenges.

With that housekeeping out of the way, let's dive into the challenge!

Challenge Prompt

What is holding you back from feeling more free?

Challenge Rules

• You have one week, until Friday February 9, 2018 at 11:59 PM PST (UTC -8) to enter this contest.
• Tag your post with #freedomchallenge so that we can see all the entries in one place
• Include a link to this post in your contest entry
• Optional: Link to your entry in the comments below for more visibility!

Winners

I will select and announce three winners for this challenge after the deadline has passed.

I reserve the right to use any combination of hand selection and random selection for choosing the winners.

Reward

• 1st place will receive 6 SBD
• 2nd place will receive 3 SBD
• 3rd place will receive 1 SBD

I look forward to read/hear/see your thoughts on freedom!