In Order To Win The Opportunity Game, You’ve Got To Play With The Intent to Win

Duh! Of course to win any game you must intend to win. Consistent wins are not a matter of chance. You must know your game inside and out, know your strengths and weaknesses and practice your skills everyday. However, as any winning athlete will tell you, your mental game is just as important as your physical game.

And this is where intent is most important. When you make choices in your life, how many are truly intentional and how many are made with minimal awareness or care about impact? Most likely you make big decisions with great awareness and smaller decisions with lesser awareness. Now imagine what your life would be like if everything you did or chose was made from conscious intention and awareness.

Think of something that you desire that you either don’t yet have or haven’t yet achieved. How important is this goal for you? Have you made it your Number One priority? If it is not yet your Number One priority, what would be different if it were?

What is your Number One priority?

As an example, writing this blog post is an important priority for me today. Rather than reading the newspaper, doing a crossword puzzle or surfing the web, I’m writing this article right now. I have made it my Number One priority for the morning. In the scheme of things, writing one blog post is not that big a deal. I could write it this morning or even this evening. However, this blog post is in keeping with my goal to launch The Opportunity Game by January 1, 2010. Now that I’ve made The Opportunity Game my Number One priority for this year, everything I see or do is filtered through the lens of The Opportunity Game. Thus, writing this post becomes an important priority for me. I’m being intentional in my approach to how I spend my time.

I’m also being intentional in how I think about my world. One of the most important lessons playing The Opportunity Game has given me is that every moment presents an opportunity to engage with someone or something. Will I show up in the moment and connect with it? When you connect with the present moment you have any number of possibilities at your disposal. Opportunities abound that I never noticed before.

What if you lived your life as if each moment counted? What if you were intentional about your moment-to-moment life? What opportunities could you create that weren’t there before?

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This entry was written by Judith Cohen, MCC, CPCC and posted on April 15, 2009 at 3:40 pm and filed under Psychology, The Arts. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.

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