diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index b77a2c3..2e1df09 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 # Changelog
 
+### master
+- run all *.tmux plugin files as executables
+
 ### v0.0.1, 2014-05-21
 - get TPM up and running
diff --git a/scripts/source_plugins.sh b/scripts/source_plugins.sh
index 58cfce1..4a96ef7 100755
--- a/scripts/source_plugins.sh
+++ b/scripts/source_plugins.sh
@@ -4,13 +4,15 @@ CURRENT_DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )"
 
 source "$CURRENT_DIR/shared_functions.sh"
 
-# Sources all *.tmux files from the plugin directory.
-# Files are sourced as tmux config files, not as shell scripts!
+# Runs all *.tmux files from the plugin directory.
+# Files are ran as executables.
 # No errors if the plugin dir does not exist.
 silently_source_all_tmux_files() {
     local plugin_path=$1
-    for tmux_file in $plugin_path/*.tmux; do
-        tmux run-shell "source-file $tmux_file 2>&1 1>&/dev/null"
+    local plugin_tmux_files="$plugin_path*.tmux"
+    for tmux_file in $plugin_tmux_files; do
+        # runs *.tmux file as an executable
+        $tmux_file 2>&1 1>&/dev/null
     done
 }