Live Your Life, Write Your Story
Community and Social Media adviser Chris Brogan did a review on his blog of Donald Miller’s A Million Miles in a Thousand Years (affiliate link). In his review Chris talked about how the book is about viewing life as a story and asked people to do a quick blog post about the importance of story in our lives.
Viewing my life as a story makes me ask the question “am I living a life that people would want to read about or watch a movie about?” I think that is a pretty obvious question to ask and I think the answer for me would be that much of my life is consumed by daily activities like going to work, coming home for lunch and dinner with my family and then maybe some reading or watching movies (and occasionally glancing at my iPhone). There are parts of my life that are interesting for people to watch, and my kids definitely make things more interesting (if you want to read about some of that check out my last post), but does having an interesting life really matter?
There are plenty of people out there that live lives full of drama, drugs, sex, big houses, and nice cars that would be very interesting and would make a hit TV series, but is that what I want for my life? No, to me a story like that would be a big waste of time. I want my story to be less about being interesting and more about making a difference and inspiring action. I want to live a life that my kids can follow and make a sequel about.
I read Donald Miller’s Blue Like Jazz and enjoyed it but have not yet read A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, but it is on my list. To view Chris’ full video review you can go here.