What I've learned from playing Solitaire

Sometimes you find a life lesson in an unusual place or person. My recent mini-obsession with playing Solitaire has either taught or reminded me of the following:

• You have to be prepared to lose. There’s always another game.
• Don’t get fixated on one particular next step or you’ll miss other opportunities.
• There is no strategy that works all the time
• Sometimes it’s best to stop planning, and just pay attention.
• It’s not always useful to grab every opportunity as soon as it come up, if you can expect it to come up again, take the time to consider your options.
• Sometimes luck feels like strategy, strategy feels like luck
• Success may lie more in your circumstances than in striving.
• When things are going well, it feels like it will be that way forever.
• You’re usually moving fast and travelling well when you’re heading down a cul de sac.
• You don’t control your circumstances, but you can make the best of them.