Entrepeneur or Management freedom?

Do you believe that when you are your own boss that you don't have to work for someone else anymore? If you do that you should think again. Every entrepeneur is working for their customers. If the customers don't buy the products or services anymore there is no business. You might have more freedom with some of your decisions but you need your customers.
As a Manager (on whatever level) you work for whoever owns the company or the next level above you. In that case you might be less concerned with customers but you still have someone you are working for.
This will be the case for 99% of the population. Instead of fighting or denying this fact it is better to actively search situations where you can work for someone because you share the same values most of the time.

Relying on yourself

Isn't it amazing to look at all the business books that come out and give recommendations regarding change? I mean do all these people really have so much experience concerning change? Some authors are really great and worth listening to but many authors are less convincing and are basically a waste of time. While I think it is good to get as much information as possible from a number of different resources I think we also have to start relying on our own judgement again. Before you can and should rely on your own judgement you have to put in some serious effort like learning as much as possible about the topic at hand and you have to accept that you will never know everything about a topic. It can be tough when you think there is always someone out there with something better (e.g. education, judgement, success, connections, skills etc.). While in many cases there might be someone out there with something better that shouldn't stop you, after careful preparation, to rely on yourself.

Change is hard but rewarding

Who said change is easy? It is not! Have you ever tried to stop smoking or known someone who has tried? It is tough and many people fail! People want to stop but in many cases it is simply not working.
This applies to most big changes (e.g. move to a new place, start your first big project, start a new job) in your personal life as well as to big changes in your professional life. If these big changes would be so easy then everyone could do it easily.
One way to get through big changes is to decide upfront how strongly you want to achieve a goal and if your discipline is strong enough to actually do it. You really have to want that change and be ready to go the whole nine yards to achieve it. If you try to change without a real good reason and without much conviction you've already lost.  Once you successfully mastered a big change it is very rewarding but you have to be willing to but in the effort to get there.