Let’s Play! Games of Life 👨🚀♟️
- Jeff@CEGspaces
- May 23
- 2 min read
In my opinion, the best games provoke thinking and require strategic reasoning. For kids, they develop critical thinking, strategic planning skills, and problem-solving. (says the former teacher on the team 😉) As adults, they help slow down the cognitive decline we’ll all eventually face. 🙄 Games teach us about life, and if we’re reflective, something about ourselves and even commercial real estate.
My favorite is chess. Levi and I play four to five times a week before school. With chess, you need to think steps ahead and have a plan. Each action causes you to predict what will happen as a result. You have to think ahead, analyze the result, and take the next best step. It’s strategic.
Scrabble is another good one. Most think it’s a word game, but I think it’s really a math game. (the former teacher on the team says it’s both 😉) You have to make moves that bring you the most points in order to win the game. You soon realize, your choices have consequences.
Games like Monopoly and Cashflow have all the elements of success and failure in real life. You may have seen the meme going around social media with the quote:
“Imagine playing Monopoly and NEVER buying any asset or investment that generates income. Imagine you just went around collecting $200, giving your money to the rich, and trying to stay out of jail. Sounds ridiculous? That’s how most people live their lives.”
My question to you all is, “How do you want to play your game of life?” We can apply the strategy, foresight, planning, and choice used in the above games to commercial real estate. If you make the choice to buy a property, you should be thinking ahead to your next move. How long will you hold it before selling? Will you put money into the property to improve it to generate more income? We can learn a lot from games. I may lose to Levi in chess, but I don’t lose with commercial real estate. Let’s play!
Fun fact: Monopoly was originally called “The Landlord’s Game” and was developed by Lizzie Magie in 1903. She created two sets of rules: an anti-monopolist set in which all were rewarded when wealth was created and a monopolist set in which the goal was to create monopolies and crush opponents.
Jeff Salzbrun is the owner/broker of Commercial Equities Group (CEG). As a veteran-owned real estate brokerage, CEG has been involved in thousands of sale and lease transactions, ranging from single offices to 250,000+ square foot buildings. At CEG, we get your deal done. We know space, and we know the CRE business.
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