By the Ocean
Partly Cloudy 75 Degrees
6:14 a.m.
If there’s no end to the “game” you choose to play in business, then it doesn’t really matter from day to day whether you “win” or “lose.”
What matters is that you will get to play again.
If you have a crystal ball that allows you to win all the time, by all means, USE IT!
But none of the clients I’ve ever worked with had one. So their journeys were marked with a steady stream of ups and downs. Some things worked. Some things didn’t. Some things didn’t work the first time but worked the third time. Some things worked the first time but not the second.
If you let the “up and down” nature of the journey get to you, you will never keep walking. Because you will go insane.
This is why choosing a game to play that you actually like is so important.
If you’re choosing it because of what you get when you win, you already lost.
This is not what the Matrix tells you. It holds up the winners, mutes the “losers” and does its best to make sure the sheep understand, “THIS IS WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE TO WIN!”
If you allow an external force to define the word WIN for you, you make a strategic error that is hard to recover from.
What does it mean for you to win?
No one else gets to answer this. Their opinion doesn’t even matter!
Only your answer matters. And once you get one, then you know what game you’re playing. Until that happens, you’re playing a game someone else made. Is that really what you want to do?