What's Your Story?

As I look back in reflection, all too often I found myself making decisions or choices based on the script I was trying to create for my life. I was challenged by the environment around me to live to a standard, to say and do what was expected of me.

Now I realize at times the script of my life that I though I was writing was being written by outside influences – and my story was being told by the outside in.

I think this is a trap for all of us at times. We get caught up in the game of life and what is being shown or told to us from the outside. We allow decisions and choices to be planned out or scripted based on expectations or lives of others. The gap is in our ability to see and manage those expectations. The gap can be created when we fail to live and make choices for US and not always from the expectations places on us by those who in the end have no control in our story of life.

A script is just that – a story that is being told ahead of time. Acted out in time based on "the plan." But is life meant to be scripted? To live OUR story, we should be challenged to experience the moments we are in, to learn from them, and to grow inside the story we are living – not based on a script we have written or especially one written for us. Our story hasn't been told yet; it has to be written.

In moments when we find ourselves being pulled into the script, remember: Life is about the NOW. Living and leading first, and bringing those alongside you who are willing to learn and grow with you.

Let's flip the script. Let's not choose the script that has been written ahead of time. Let's choose the path of the moments we are in NOW, and let our STORY become the script that will tell the story of our life.

How are you winning?