In chess, controlling the center gives your pieces options. In life, staying flexible does the same.

LEADERSHIP

WHAT THIS MEANS

Pieces in the middle of the board reach more squares, so the player holding the centre has more available moves every turn. Options, rather than aggression, are what make that position strong. Your own life behaves the same way, since skills, savings, health and people who answer your messages all widen what you can do next. Flexibility is reach, not indecision.

Ask which of your current choices narrows you and which widens you. A skill that transfers, a few hundred saved, a licence, a second subject you are decent at. Put this month into one thing that gives you more moves.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Are you keeping yourself flexible or locking choices in early?

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