Imagine a game

Imagine if you could get a game, but not a game you’ve bought online or downloaded on to your PS4.

Imagine it was a game that had no pre-destined outcome, it had no rules, no minimum or maximum numbers of players. The map wasn’t restricted to a certian size, the game was truly without any pre-set limits.

From the outset, you could design the game play, choose the characters, where the journey went, what places to go, things to build and so on. You could decide how every part of it went.

However, like any good game, there would have to be consequences or outcomes, that would occur as a result of your choices. Otherwise, there would be no point.

The fact is, we all have this game already, not quiet from birth, as we can’t make all our own choices, a number are made for us. It is our lives.

You only have the one life, unlike other games, where you can start again from the beginning or the the last save. But you set the rules and you decide everything.

What would we all do differently, if we saw our lives as a complete blank canvas, that we could freely create our own outcome on?

If we all could see life as a game, we’d all be less fearful, we’d end up with less regrets and we’d more than likely do the thing that makes us happy.

So what’s stopping us?

Have an open mind

Perhaps it’s an age thing, but sometimes we can all get caught in the trap of shutting ourselves off to ideas or new things, often based on not very much.

We get this notion in our head that something in life or business just isn’t for us, or won’t work because we’ve seen it, been there, done that and not just got the T shirt, but the whole shop full of T shirts!!

I had fallen into that trap over recent years, however, in the last 6-8 months I have really opened my mind to lot’s of things I had, in my infinite wisdom as I got older, dismissed as not for me, won’t work, etc etc

And guess what? I was wrong about things, not all, but a good number of things I had dismissed.

Just how far have I gone, well I’ve now tried meditation, yoga, having more days without eating meat, using Facebook, and more recently even being converted to…..writing this with gritted teeth…LinkedIn. I’ll spare you the entire list, but there are many ideas or other opinions that I just blocked out previously.

Once you realise this ‘open mind’ thing is good, it becomes addictive and makes you realise in life that most things are not black or white, right or wrong. After all, do Amazon sell the manual for life itself? No? really, and they sell everything, so I’m guessing it doesn’t exist.

So my thought today is a simple one – keep an open mind, you’ll be utterly amazed by the results.