Run toward, not away

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There are two ways to run in life. You can run towards something, or you can run away from something. It’s often hard to know which is which.

Sometimes we tell ourselves we are running towards something, a goal, experience, person, when we are really just running away from something else.

Throughout my life, I’ve been running towards accomplishment.

Good schools. Good grades. Good jobs.

Intellectual achievement always seemed to come easy for me, so I was constantly running towards the highest form of it I could find.

Looking back, I’ve realized that I often set ambitious intellectual goals to avoid problems in other areas of my life.

My health, my relationships.

Problems in these areas are harder to solve. My body is a complicated. Interpersonal relationships are complicated. Working on them isn’t as easy as studying for a test or job interview. Yet they are definitely more important.

I’ve avoided dealing with these problem areas because I’ve been scared. Scared of the unknown. Scared of dealing with problems that I don’t completely understand, or am somewhat anxious to dive into.

But the problems we run away from are the most important to solve.

So I urge you to think about what problems you are running away from, and prioritize solving those instead of the problems within your comfort zone.

Until next week.

Step by step,

Nathan

P.S. here’s a fun video with a great quote I sent to myself as a reminder this week

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