‘You Play As You Are’

Years ago, at a seminar, the speaker asked everyone to stand, take a note from their wallet, and walk around the room making sure they ended up holding a different note. That was the whole instruction.

For five minutes it was chaos. People snatched notes from each other’s hands. Some ended up with far less, a few with double, and many were genuinely upset. All over one simple instruction.

Then he made his point. Any of us could have calmly swapped a note of the same value and the game would have been over in seconds. Almost nobody did. ‘You play as you are.’ The way people played that game is how they play life.

How you handle money, pressure and people is a mirror of who you are inside. The hopeful part, change who you are within, and the whole game changes.

‘How am I playing the game, and is that really who I want to be?’