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The other night Greg and I played our most favorite game, Parcheesi. I won 3 games in a row and was revelling in my victory. And I can revel when I am winning! Greg told me that it was the chair I was sitting in. It was a “lucky” chair and if we traded chairs, he said he would win the games. He told me there was an energy vortex that was affecting whoever sat in the “loser´s” chair. Laughing, we switched seats. Sure enough, he won the next three games hands down! He kept on telling me that it was the chair. There was a “winner´s” chair and a “loser´s” chair and I was now in the loser´s chair.

As I watched my winning streak come to an end, I actually began to believe him. Maybe there was something wrong with the energy in this particular chair. Perhaps I couldn´t win if I was sitting in it. As he reinforced this belief in me, I found the doubts starting to come into my head. I joked about it, I laughed it off, I had another glass of wine…but I kept on losing. And the more I lost, the more Greg reinforced the belief in me that I would not win sitting in the “loser´s” chair. There was that negative energy vortex that I simply could not control.

Of course, it was all in jest and we were having a good time, but I found it interesting how easily my mind took on the belief that something outside of myself was in control. Imagine, something as ridiculous as the chair that I sat on being responsible for me winning or losing a board game! It´s crazy. Of course it is. But maybe not….

Think about it. Isn´t it true that people do this all the time? It´s the corrupt government, the bad employer, the crooked employee, the lousy tax system, the economy, the recession, the weather, God or the Devil, just to name a few things, that are responsible for the mess. We´d love to blame someone else for buying on credit, not saving enough money or the downturn in business. Most people are looking for the scapegoat because that feels so much easier than just taking responsibility.

I won the last game of Parcheese that night…even sitting in the so-called wrong chair. I love that Greg pushed those buttons for me and helped me see how easily we can be convinced that it is external forces that govern our destiny, fortune or lack thereof. I know better. I know that I am 110% responsible for creating my life, the life I say I want. Playing Parcheesi was a great reminder.

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