Went running with friend Stephanie Lloyd today. The course we often run is along the Chattahoochee River, and there is a specific direction you take to follow the mileage markers.
But today, Stephanie said "let's go the other direction. The view is different going the other way."
Same path. Same course. But she was right. Going the other direction looked entirely different.
And this, of course, got me thinking. We should look for ways to "go the other direction" as often as we can. This can apply to life, business, relationships, marketing, etc...
This idea, this concept, is not new. We talk about it all the time. We suggest in our writings that we should go our own way, take the road less traveled, be different, etc...
But we so rarely do so. Very few do, and those are the ones we seem to follow, and pay homage to. And then, of course, once we all start going in that direction, we are all going in the same direction.
So, we have to consciously choose to go the other direction. But that's not the hard part. The hard part is looking for the ways where you can actually make that choice. And therein lies the difference maker. Most people aren't really looking.
Sure, we can all run the other direction on a popular running trail. And it is even invigorating to go that way every so often.
Life becomes interesting when you find a truly unique new direction to go, one that others haven't found yet. That's where life becomes worth adventuring, and worth living...
What direction are you going?