Moving and Poker — An Analogy
September 19, 2007
Every Monday afternoon when I do my radio show, for the first segment Gavin (my darlin co-host) and I just chat about what we have been up to. Since it’s a poker radio station: www.holdemradio.com and a poker show: “Broad-Minded Poker” we try to keep the subject rooted in our main topic. — poker. Of course, we sometime get off course since Gavin has a lot of sex on his male testosterone filled mind, (he falls in love almost every week that we have a female guest.) Back to the subject at hand. As you know, I have been in the middle of a huge move — boy is that hard work. I am not used to physical labor and I don’t like it. Anyway, on the way to the station Monday, I was thinking about that move, which is all I had done all week long and ended up with a pretty good analogy on moving and poker. When I first started packing for this life changing move, I was focused, organized, motivated, and did everything right. I wrapped all items that were breakable and labeled each box carefully, what was in it and which room it went to. I was postively anal on perfection. This was going to be the best move of my life. As the actual date got closer I was getting tired and began making mistakes and throwing stuff in the boxes. My thoughts of a smooth move with everything going as planned went out the window. The analogy: I have seen people do this in poker tournaments more often than not. They started out on their A game, were patient, and made the right decisions. After hours of boredom and taking a bad beat on a good hand or two, their well laid plans were out the window and they were playing badly. The next time I move which will be never (I believe I have sworn that before) I will try to stay focused on doing it right all the way from beginning to end and the next poker tournament I play I will do the same.
Gotta go, I have about 12 more boxes to dump out.
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