Everything Begins With A Thought
You create your thoughts.
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Your thoughts create your intentions.
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Your intentions create your reality.
Simple, isn’t it ?
It was the winter of 1987. I was a single. It must have been fate that the person who places ads in the Southfield Eccentric Newspaper goofed and put a listing for a SCRABBLE EVENT in The Singles Column. It was my intention to meet someone who would have a meaningful impact on the rest of my life.
Surprise on me ! The impact on my life did not come from somebody I encountered; it came from something I encountered: Competitive Scrabble. And I’ve been hooked ever since.
Once I saw all of those custom scrabble boards with all those unfamiliar words, once I saw all those people competing and scoring more points in a single turn than I normally scored in several turns, I had new thoughts about learning how to play like they played.
Which gave birth to a new set of intentions . . . .
Which begat my new reality . . . .
And ever since that time, all I’ve thought about are hot spots and bingos, anagramming words and category sets, high probability stems and tracking, and strategies and the official rules of the game.
It is no fluke that I have become proficient at playing scrabble, teaching scrabble, and developing scrabble learning tools.
When anyone spends the major part of each day, in each week, in each year for 20+ years they become pretty good at their trade whether they are a mechanic, a chef, or a scrabble aficionado.
If you are thinking about making your presents felt on the scrabble scene, think of me, and my online class: Scrabble 101.