The Chess Game of Life: Why Every Move Matters |
I want to ask you a question: Do you think the choices you make today will have any impact on your future?
If we stop to think about it, most of us would say, “Yes, of course.” But we don’t actually live that way. We tend to view our days as a series of isolated events—a mishmash of choices that seem totally inconsequential in the moment. We choose what to eat, what to watch, or how to react to a spouse, assuming these small moments vanish as soon as they pass.
But what if we changed our perspective? What if we viewed life not as a series of random events, but as a chess game where every single move has repercussions for the entire board?.
The hardest part of playing the “game of life” is that, unlike chess, we rarely see the immediate result of a move. There is a “lag time.”
A blunder in the opening moves of a chess match might not cause you to lose the game until 40 moves later. Life is the same. A healthy, vibrant teenager who........