I’m spoiled! I can’t work like that anymore. I’ve seen the light. My transformation took place in the space of a 3 hour game of “Cash Flow”.
That’s right, a game about amassing money.
For what I gained, you would think that I had attended a revival.
It was a spiritual experience for me.
I still get goose bumps when I think of it.
“Cash flow” is a game where the object is to develop enough passive income to get out of the rat race.
In fact, the game piece you move around the board IS a rat.
Mine was the red rat.
You move around the board kind of like Monopoly.
If you don’t have enough money to do the deal on the card you pull, you can try to bargain with the other players to sell them the deal.
It was close to the end of the game and I pulled a great card, only I did not have enough money to do the deal.
The guy to my right had the money, and, if he got hold of my card, he would get way ahead of me in the game.
However, he didn’t want to pay my price, so I was going to let the card go to waste.
Just then, the facilitator came to our table, looked at my great card, and said the words that would change the way I saw life and business forever.....
Mark said, “Dina, you are seeing this all wrong.
Look around the table.
How can you structure a deal with all the players to where you all can get out of the rat race at the same time?”
That statement opened up a whole new way of seeing the world to me.
Then he proceeded to show us how, by all chipping in a certain amount of money, every player at the table could participate in the deal that would catapult all of us into the winners circle at that very moment.
The game was a microcosm of the macrocosm that is our collective life.
We’re all on this planet together.
There is a way for all of us to ‘chip in’ our time, our talents, and our money to make anything we desire a reality.
All we have to do is stop looking at life as….. “If I win you lose or if you win I lose.”
Instead, we can look at the big picture, look at the skills and resources that are needed, and bring a group together that can meet the shared goal by each contributing their passion to the project.
When we can do that, we all win together.
And that is ‘The Game of Life’ played out in a way that would make every day feel like Christmas and… maybe even bring a little bit of heaven to earth.
