AND WHERE YOU STAND

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Why did I succeed? I viewed each decision like a move on agame board and I was determined to win.

—GEORGE S. PARKER, GAME ENTREPRENEUR

The Monopoly board is much like the path you follow month by month in your life. It has a beginning, a series of challenges and opportunities along the way (not all of which will come to fruition), events that are not entirely unexpected, a few surprises (good and bad), and periodically a payoff (a salary, if you’re not sidetracked or unduly taxed).

In life, you can mark time and respond to what fate serves up, day by day, month by month, while awaiting the next paycheck (perhaps thinking, “I ...

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