Every so often I like to take my laptop and pitch it to the side for a game of Chess. My wife can’t understand for the life of her how I can sit at a table for hours on end with another person and not say a word. It’s just a relaxing way of unwinding and taking your mind away from the outside world.
In order to be successful at chess, one must think two or three moves ahead and if you’re a world champion more like six or seven. Recently I have been thinking of how a game of chess compares to my business. When I write an offer on a property that’s the first move, the listing agent’s counter is the second move and while I’m waiting for that counter I’m thinking ahead of what happens if they accept or don’t accept my clients offer.
This also applies to the day to day activities in my business and personal life. If I do this what will happen and how will somebody react? In the Broadway musical of Chess one of the songs illustrators that every game of chess played means one less variation and in each day we go through means one or two less mistakes to be made. I never thought that applying the same techniques to a board game would ever help me in my life but lately it has.
Chess Picture by Free Extras.com
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