Breaking the Rules

Are you following or creating? It’s always a choice …

When you prefer to carefully color within the lines of conformity, you may find that you respond positively to strong rules, which maintain order and create the illusion of safety — but please consider that it may prevent you from exploring anything beyond the norm and outside of what is expected to live a ‘successful’ life.

Many times, rules and lists become unnecessary walls that prevent us from living up to our full potential. Our societal code traps us in acceptable norms that are really no more than rules of how we should interact with the world.

I know firsthand that there is so much more, and these rules can be very stifling, especially when it comes to our creativity and imagination. Sure, we all need guidelines and signposts to help us navigate, but we can also practice questioning everything in order to invite in more common sense that seems to be dwindling in today’s climate. We’ve been gifted beautiful minds and hearts to explore the edges and question the boundaries.

Are you having fun? What role do curiosity and a sense of play have in your life?

Rules keep us in a very structured, black-and-white world — but we need to be more aware of exceptions, because life is not black and white. We…