What game are you playing?

What game are you playing:

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What game are you playing?

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The money game?

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Status game?

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Materialism game?

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Envy game?

Family game?

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Work game?

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Success game?

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Self-development game?

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Experience game?

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Happiness game?

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Which game is it?

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What game are you focused on?

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We’re all playing a game in life.

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Most of us subconsciously.

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Dictated by our parents, upbringing, environment and people we keep around us.

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We don’t ask this question.

What game am I playing?

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Why?

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What do I want my life to be?

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What do I want to accomplish?

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What do I want to leave as a legacy?

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Maybe it’s nothing.

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Maybe it’s something.

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Whatever it is doesn’t matter.

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The point is it matters to you.

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Just know this.

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Thousands of years of history have given us a few tips.

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Play the money game and you will be miserable.

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You will forever run a treadmill you will always lose.

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You’ll always be playing the comparison game.

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Comparing yourself to those ahead of you rather than being content with where you are.

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How about the status game?

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Also a road to misery.

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You will miss your life.

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You will chase a title, money, cars, all of it.

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And for what?

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What happens when you end up alone with no one around you?

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Was it all worth it?

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Many have told us no.

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Because guess what?

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You can’t take your money with you.

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The Egyptians tried it.

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Didn’t work.

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All the gold they stored in those tombs was still there.

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How about the comparison game?

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Making sure you do better than those around you.

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Again, another path to misery.

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If you are getting your happiness from external things you can’t control, you are doomed.

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The goalpost will always shift.

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It will always move.

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Expectations will always change.

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One day you’ll have a nicer watch than your friend.

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The next year he has one.

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Now what?

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Also, things only make you temporarily happy.

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They’re status signals.

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They’re to show other people how wealthy you are.

This is useful in some contexts.

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But if you base your life around this idea, you won’t be happy.

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So how about the happiness game?

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Why don’t you make that the goal?

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Now it’s a tough goal.

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You won’t figure it out quickly.

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It may take you a few years, decades or even your whole life.

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Here’s what I’ve learned about it.

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It’s about relationships.

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It’s about experiences.

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It’s about family.

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It’s about internal motivation.

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It’s about doing the things that make you happy.

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It’s about living the life you want to live because you want to live it.

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Not anyone else.

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You can never be truly happy if you’re living life on behalf of someone else.

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So live your own.

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Walk your own path.

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Do your own thing.

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You only get one.

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One life to make it happen.

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To play the best game you can.

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Don’t play the wrong one.

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Most of us are.

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So ask yourself.

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What game are you playing?

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