Rules: To Follow or Not?

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“If I’d observed all the rules, I’d never have got anywhere.”

― Marilyn Monroe

I tend to be a bit of a rule-keeper. Tell me the rules, please, and I'll do my best to abide by them. Sometimes I win. Sometimes I lose. It's a nice, safe way to live my life.

And then there are the times I dare to risk . . . to go past the boundaries of rules and try something not illegal, so much as daring. Something not in the rule book. Something that demands more of me than the norm. It's scary.

Sometimes I win.

Sometimes I lose.

But I always learn something more than I would have if I'd played by the rules.

What about you?

Do you observe the rules? Bend 'em a little? Dare to break them and achieve your dreams in the process?