Your Next Move  | | Imagine your life as a game of chess or backgammon. In order to win, you have to move. At the beginning of the game you have plenty of options. That is why many people play carelessly when the game starts. Only later, when the number of options decreases, do they finally start thinking. The worst situation approaches when you have only a few choices left. And if you don't stop and start thinking really hard, you will certainly end up checkmated. In order to win at a board game or in life, start thinking as early as possible and throughout the whole game keep thinking. You cannot afford to play carelessly and to rely on mere luck if you don't want to find yourself cornered. Bad losers always blame their dice and bad luck. Most of the time they don't even know why they lost. Winners always know why they win, because they apply plans, strategies and techniques. Professional players know that there is only one best move at any given time. In chess you have computers that think through all the options and calculate the statistical probabilities according to the rules of the game. They evaluate multiple situations within seconds and then tell you exactly what to do. But how about real life? How about your life? Who tells you where to go, when to proceed, with whom and how? You can listen to an army of advisors, you can pay a counsellor or hire a coach, but in the end it is always you who has to decide about the next move. You make hundreds of right and wrong decisions every day. No matter what you do, no matter where you are, the process of deciding never stops. Open your eyes and activate your mind. Switch off the autopilot and take the helm. You can drive a racing car and you can fly a jet as long as you focus and pay attention to what you are doing. Be aware of your surroundings but don't let them distract you. Your next move can lead you away from your goal or take you one step closer to where you want to go.
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| | | | | | | | 1. charlene2350 (4850) | 3 years ago | This is so true! And a great lesson. Where could I be if I had not lived on auto pilot the first 25 years of my life. I think your analogy of a chess game is very relevant to life in general and what we want to do with our lives from the very beginning. Some kids grow up knowing what they want to do and they stay focused all their lives until they achieve their goals.. and then they work to maintain and go further.
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KrauseHome (13406) | 3 years ago | Very good thoughts and comments here. Many now a days I feel tend to forget this though is why there are so many now a days changing Jobs and careers every couple of years. We need to start making this more of a basic of life for their future again.
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| | 2. kelly60 (3270) | 3 years ago | You are so right. The earlier you start working towards any goal, the more likely you are to reaching it. If all of your efforts are scattered, rather than focused, you may never get them in line and reach your final destination.
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KrauseHome (13406) | 3 years ago | Good comments here. Who in life wants all their efforts scattered?
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| | 3. GardenGerty (20216) | 3 years ago | Very good analogy. Probably the kick in the pants I am needing today. I do not mean that you sound harsh, just that I need to pay attention, and take some action. It is good to be reminded.
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| | 4. caribe (1875) | 3 years ago | I think that is a good analogy. Too many people just "roll with the flow" without any particular plan in mind. Everyone needs a plan for their moves and a backup plan in case their best laid plans get off course if they want to win in this game of life.
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| | 5. terri0824 (3510) | 3 years ago | SO very well put. A person shouldn't start the thinking process whenever their half way through what ever they are doing, but should apply their thought process even before they begin.
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| | 6. joey_matthews (5037) | 3 years ago | I'm honestly not sure how to answer this.
Although I choose my own steps and not very often are they wrong moves, when that happens I learn from it and move on. (making sure not to do it again)
Sure it's easy to forget which steps to move but I'm happy with the direction I'm going.
~Joey
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| | 7. Withoutwings (4692) | 3 years ago | This is good advice, and so true. The problem is that when you are younger and you have all of these choices, you don't want to listen. Your parents and other adults tell you things but you don't believe them. Young people think they know more and better than adults.... and these lessons are things they have to learn on their own. I thought these things when I was younger... and now my 14 year old neice is the same. She thinks she is so smart and that she knows more than her parents, her grandparents and her aunts and uncles. She is making a lot of stupid mistakes - but it's lessons she has to learn on her own. And each generation is the same.
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| | 8. di1indilin (635) | 3 years ago | Yea, i always of m life as a game of chess,especially when making decisions because it removes any emotiona; attachment from the issue at hand.
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| | 9. 3superkids (328) | 3 years ago | You have quite a good analogy of life. I do agree with you. I believe that we are responsible for everything that would happen with our lives. For every decision that we may decide whatever would be the outcome we can never turn it back.
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| | 10. bwrattybaby (5233) | 3 years ago | Everyone has to make their minds up on what they want out of life. If they open their eyes and look past the moment and plan for the future then they can set goals in life. But a lot of people walk around with blinders on their eyes and can't see anything. Then there are those that plan but can't stick with a plan to get things done. Some people can't control their own minds enough not to let the distractions get their attention. You have to be a strong person to keep your mind focoused on what you want to do in life.
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