don't follow a script. Write one....

​I'm pretty sure when I write these articles, they often have spelling and grammar mistakes. And I need to tell you, just so long as you understand what I'm trying to say - or even mostly understand it - I don't care about those mistakes.

I haven't always been that way when it came to my writing. I used to write a paragraph. Go back and check it for mistakes. Repeat. Repeat. It was edit as I go writing.

Today, I just write. These thoughts come upon my heart and enter my mind and my passion becomes getting them out. I follow the flow of the thoughts; I don't make my thoughts sit and patiently wait on my obsession with writing rules.

It's made all the difference. Today I'm much better at sharing my thoughts and feelings - even if many days it doesn't follow all the rules.

Running has been the same. I used to chart and graph my miles and speed and heartrate and elevation gains and losses. I did that mostly so I could compare it to other people - the kind of runners I wanted to become.

Then one day it hit me - much like writing - I don't want to be another runner. I just want to be a runner. The act of running is what brought me fulfillment - not the data that described my run.

I still glance at my watch when I run. But it's out of curiosity and not an obsession with what it is saying to me.

I think there are times when we let the details of life stand in the way of our living it. Some days we need to say screw the miserable storyline I'm trying to live out - whether out of expectations or rules or data - and go create the storyline our heart and soul is longing to live.

There's a lot of life that gets missed when we start trying to memorize the script - when we over-analyze it and get caught up in the details of it. When we lose countless nights of sleep over it.

Because frankly, I've discovered - our best life is often found in writing a script, not trying to follow one.

It's Monday. Throw some scripts away this week.

And then - write one.