The Long Game

I once met this shawty who lacked imagination. You can’t really play and enjoy the long game if you lack imagination. Unless you’re masochistic.

What is the long game? The long game is about playing for keeps. You could say the long game is about growth and all that, but that isn’t exactly why people play the long game, they do it because there’s something worthwhile at the end of the tunnel. Growth is just a byproduct of their perseverance. The long game can apply to your love life, your business, your career or even your lifestyle. IMOW – In My Own World, this is what the brand name stands for, the long game.

The long game is about focusing and homing in on your goal or target, and drowning out the noise from anything else that would only serve as a distraction; the zone.

The game plan that only you can see, but may not be able to put into words for just anyone, it’s this head space that we refer to as My Own World. And those who have manifested their desires in the past know how real and exciting this creative space is.
            After your first taste of the power of creation, and the laws of attraction, the only games you find worth playing are those for keeps. Because anything worth doing should at the least feel like magic, i.e. a unique experience.
            By associating with the brand name IMOW, you can bring awareness to those around you that you are in a state of extreme focus, that you are playing the long game with a specific goal in mind.
Look out for tees in the IMOW store.

A few words you will never hear being associated with the long game are, short-sightedness, neurotic and impulsive, or impatient. In a world of instant gratification, those of us who play for keeps need to look out for one another, check up on one another, and teach and learn from one another. The road is long and can be lonely, but it doesn’t have to be. We can look out for and encourage one another as member of the focus gang.

Now, do you guys realize that the computers we use today started their journey with weaving?
The art of weaving patterns into rags/mats, begun many years ago. It is an art that is painstaking and slow if done by hand. This isn’t ideal for mass production, so people had to figure out how to make weave machines that could be programmed to weave specific patterns over and over. From this first step we slowly learnt about programming machines and today we have computers that send men to the moon, and do all other sorts of wicked and neat tricks.

Something we often overlooked in conversations about playing for keeps is the relationship between pleasure and doing something meaningful. When we engage in meaningful activities our minds reward us by making us feel good; the only other way we can experience these feelings is through drugs and other substances, or by having sex, however these methods of pleasure seeking can lead to addiction and destruction. So my recommendation is to find something meaningful to do and play, it’s a great way to avoid depression.

Talk about the long game, would we be here without it?

In the book beyond illusion and doubt, as a part of his critique of Darwin, Swami Prabhupāda discusses how there are 8.4 million species of creatures on this planet, and that every soul that comes into being, evolves through all these creatures, as they grow and move towards God; in so many words. We are all playing this game, even those who don’t know it.

By – Simon Karanja