What a crazy month of August... so much had happened within these 31 days, both professionally and personally, don't even know where to begin to blog about it. One thing does come to mind, ..... Chess!
No no no, not chest, CHESS!!!!
I never really knew how to play chess and never pay any attention to the game until a fantastic newspaper article I read around 7 or 9 years ago, written by one of the great chess master of our time, Shelby Lyman. His article then and even now, speaks little about the game itself, but more about everything else surrounding the game. Not only did his chess philosophy made me a student to the game but also became part of my thought process whenever I approach any situation in life. It made me realized how I (and most of us) who never played the actual game all along were playing some chess every day when dealing with our lives.
In both the game of Chess and the game of Life, you plan, you time, you execute your every move while at the same time study how your opponent plan, time and execute their move. Your moves can either be the obvious aggressive moves to let your opponents know they you are coming and attacking which you mean business!!! or moves you patiently making, the safe defensive moves just to wait and see how your opponent will play out their pieces, you wait, play it safe, keep waiting and waiting until your opponent make that one fatal mistake and then BOOM!!! you attack.
Your moves can also be ones filled with hidden agenda, disguising its possibility of attacks or maybe you just defending, either way, it is so not obvious that its true intention is to mislead your opponent, to make them over think, if this is masterfully done, your opponent will actually respect your every move before themselves come to a complete meltdown. And then, there’s your ultimate Grand-Masterful moves, ones which you manipulate and direct with such forceful influence, each move your opponent is making after yours, is exactly the move you've planned how it is moved all along, your only problem once this skill is precisely executed, is how fast you want to finish the game.
Now with that said, and although, some of you were and continue to play your game of life with such masterful mixture of chess skills which made me proud.... but over the years, agree or disagree with me, there are few special ones in your game of Life I honestly believe should not be treated like your chess opponent.
So please give me few more minutes of your time, join me, open up your mind and acknowledge these few simple rules.
I never really knew how to play chess and never pay any attention to the game until a fantastic newspaper article I read around 7 or 9 years ago, written by one of the great chess master of our time, Shelby Lyman. His article then and even now, speaks little about the game itself, but more about everything else surrounding the game. Not only did his chess philosophy made me a student to the game but also became part of my thought process whenever I approach any situation in life. It made me realized how I (and most of us) who never played the actual game all along were playing some chess every day when dealing with our lives.
In both the game of Chess and the game of Life, you plan, you time, you execute your every move while at the same time study how your opponent plan, time and execute their move. Your moves can either be the obvious aggressive moves to let your opponents know they you are coming and attacking which you mean business!!! or moves you patiently making, the safe defensive moves just to wait and see how your opponent will play out their pieces, you wait, play it safe, keep waiting and waiting until your opponent make that one fatal mistake and then BOOM!!! you attack.
Your moves can also be ones filled with hidden agenda, disguising its possibility of attacks or maybe you just defending, either way, it is so not obvious that its true intention is to mislead your opponent, to make them over think, if this is masterfully done, your opponent will actually respect your every move before themselves come to a complete meltdown. And then, there’s your ultimate Grand-Masterful moves, ones which you manipulate and direct with such forceful influence, each move your opponent is making after yours, is exactly the move you've planned how it is moved all along, your only problem once this skill is precisely executed, is how fast you want to finish the game.
Now with that said, and although, some of you were and continue to play your game of life with such masterful mixture of chess skills which made me proud.... but over the years, agree or disagree with me, there are few special ones in your game of Life I honestly believe should not be treated like your chess opponent.
So please give me few more minutes of your time, join me, open up your mind and acknowledge these few simple rules.
Rule #1 of not applying your Chess skills in game of Life:
Never use your chess skills and tactics on family and true friends. With family and true friends, you do not want to play with their mind, I apologize if this sounds a little corny but you do want to be as truthful and sincere with them. And "Truthful" and "Sincere" are not part of winning Chess formula. You apply your winning chess formula, you might win the game but you'll lose your family and true friends.
Rule #2
For great leaders only, no need to use your Chess skills on your direct subordinates. These people already are under you, you already won! game is over the day you hire them or when they're placed under you. Don't waste your time applying challenging chess skills to their lives and more importantly, your life. Use it on your superiors instead. If you are already on top and report to no one but yourself , then..... Call me!
Rule #3
Never use Rule#1 on your children. For those who believe they are good parents or for those who are not a parent but do played a parental guidance role and believe they are good ones, please, for the love of mankind, for the sake of sanity, please execute all of your masterful chess skills at all time with your child and please make sure you win all the time before they start mastering their own game.
!!!Warning!!! If you are not sure you are a good parent or a good role model for kids, please ignore rule #3 and quickly.... go seek help!
Once again, thanks for listening, so now.... Your Move?
