Can one be on the right track without a plan?

​Someone said to me recently, "I am without a plan, feeling like I am on the right track." When she said that, her voice was full of hope and full of confidence.

How often do you hear someone say "I don't have a plan" in a way that leaves you feeling like they have their life together?

It got me wondering, do we put too much pressure on ourselves to have the perfect plan when what many of us might need is just a taste of being on the right track. Is being on the right track maybe the best place to start making the most meaningful plans?

I say that as someone who feels like he is also on the right track. In some ways that is uncomfortable; it's a brand new feeling. In some ways that is a scary feeling; I have no idea where the track is going and one of the things we all long for most in life is to know where we are going.

Maybe that's why we like plans. Maybe that's why we ignore asking ourselves if we're on the right track while we are memorizing and perfecting plans that make us feel like we're on the right track.

What I am discovering about right track - being on the right track feels like being the real you. Right track asks me more questions about who I am than about where I am going. And in so many ways, being true to yourself feels a hell of a lot better than being true to a plan.

Because the truth is - many of our plans - at least many I've had - are put in place to honor the wishes of others. To impress others. To appease others. To follow the direction we feel like the world wants us to follow and not the track that may very well be calling us from deep within.

Listen, I believe plans are good. I'm just wondering this morning if being on the right track might be the best place to be when you start making them. I'm just wondering if when we don't go to that right track place to make our plans, if our plans are what put us most at risk for getting off track.

It might be worth asking yourself this morning: "Am I on the right track?"

If the answer is no, you may need to considering ditching some real plans and pursuing the real you.