Play a Big Game

So its certainly been a while since I've blogged last. It seems that once I've missed a week or so, there are SO many things happening in my life, that I don't even know where to begin with a blog. So let me sum up the last month in a few sentences. First of foremost, I spent 2 weeks in South Africa! It has been a big goal of mine to go on safari and I did it!! Take a look at my pics!! I wish I had blogged while I was there because so many things happened while I was away I wish I could share with everyone. I flew Upper Class on Virgin Atlantic. If you ever have the opportunity, DO IT. Its amazing. Treated like royalty, food is great, my bed was made for me when I was ready to sleep. Very comfortable, definitely the way to fly. Massages on the planes too. I'll never fly coach again when traveling outside the US. In fact, I pretty much am focused on never flying coach again period, but thats another conversation. So I spent 4 days on Safari at a private game reserve called Londolozi. It was wonderful. I saw tons of amazing wildlife, ate well, lived well. Again, total luxury it was amazing. After that, I spent a weekend at an endangered species centre near Hoedspruit. I got there by private charter and the pilot let me fly the plane! They have a Cheetah Rescue Project as aprt of the centre and I actually got to play with and feed the animals there. Truly a once in a lifetime experience as the curator was the sister of a friends friends friend. Yes, far removed from me, but I took advantage of the opportunity. I wonder how many other people would have done that....Again, another conversation for another day. After that adventure, I spent a week at Sun City at the Palace of the Lost City. Super 5 star resort. The nicest hotel I've ever stayed at by far and at $500/night, it earned its stars. The conference I attended there was truly amazing and really set my mind in a different direction. I walked away with an incredible amount of information, deepened friendships, and a 'knowing' inside me of where I'm headed.

One of the big things that occurred for me this past month was my decision to buy a house. I turned 35 yesterday, (go me!) and I've always rented, never owned. In part, I had followed the advice of my parents who, though they owned, told me not to as it would be more trouble than its worth. So much for good advice. At any rate, between that and my false belief that I couldn't afford something, I never looked into my options at all. Well, it finally became clear to me that it was time to do so, and I have started looking for a house. So here I am, turning 35, looking for a house, and in fairly new territory. I have no idea how much to spend. And then I am introduced to a fairly new concept. Playing a big game. Now for anyone following this blog, I have been playing something called The Game for the last 90 days. And its all about playing a big game, reaching beyond your boundaries, going after lofty goals, and being accountable for your actions/inactions. But even through it all, the overall concept eluded me until last week. I was on a masterminding call with 6 and 7 figure earners when the concept really hit home. When you step into a big game, when you start playing like your life depended on it, when you make huge commitments in your life, big things will open up. I heard people on the call talking about buying their dream $5million ranch and things like that. And after the call, as I was driving up to Santa Barbara with my girlfriend, I realized that it was time to really play big. I decided I was going to make an offer on a house I saw the day before. It was going for $1.1 Million. And in that decision, I got really excited. And it took me from a place of focusing on smaller issues, to much bigger issues. Now my monthly income goal just jumped an extra $20k from where it was a moment before. I was now playing a bigger game, and it was exciting. It felt great to be in the game, a big game. And on top of all that, my conversation with my girlfriend around it opened up the discussion of us living together. Now this was something NOT even under consideration for quite a while, but suddenly there it was. And it definitely took us for a loop, but it was amazing. And the weekend we wound up having as a result of choosing to play big was amazing.

So I can certainly say that a LOT has occurred in the last month, and a lot of it can be attributed to playing BIG in life. I know I still have a ways to go until I'm fulling living BIG at all times, but even taking the initial steps feels great. What big steps have YOU taken recently? Let me know!