When the Games End

That's when life begins

It’s almost a game. We play lots of games in life, and the games start early.

When we are young (some of you still are), we set career goals and aspirations.

Those are fine and a natural part of our growth and development. We have a position or an amount of money in mind that will make us ‘happy’ or satisfy our needs.

That ambition, like any, leads to another and then another.

Think for a moment about how that process starts.

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It’s almost a game. We play lots of games in life, and the games start early.

✅ As a young child, you’re playing the school game or playing the social game.

✅ When you start to work, you begin playing the money game at some point that transitions to the status game.

Each of these games just has progressively longer time horizons.

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At some point, perhaps you are here; we come to realize these are not real life at all, just games.

If it is just a game, does the outcome matter?

Don’t you just get tired of games? I did.

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I’m at the stage where I’m not only tired of games, I also want something more from life.

I want to live out why I was created, expressed as my true self and essence, in harmony with everything I do.

That is the definition of Ikigai.

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🌀 Reflection:

Are you playing games?

What would it mean to stop playing?