Do You Know ๐ค How to Play ๐ฎ Your Free Square ๐?

Do you know how to play your free square?
In the game of Bingo, every player starts with a bonus: the free square in the middle. Because everybody gets one, nobody thinks much of it, but the free square is just as valuable in winning the game as B-7 or O-69.
We have โfree squaresโ in our lives, too: talents, abilities, and inexplicable aptitudes that make certain things almost effortless. Maybe we can sing, or weโre good at math, or children warm to us and listen when we talk. But when someone comments on our free square, we tend to say, โOh, that. Itโs nothing.โ Because we didnโt work hard to get it, the same way a player doesnโt have to perform to get a free square on the Bingo card, we undervalue what may be our most serviceable attribute
If youโre unclear about your own free square, answer the following questions: Is there an area of your life, even one you may have regarded as insignificant, in which good things tend to happen repeatedly and automatically? Do you have an aptitude for something that seems so natural you canโt understand why other people struggle with it? What do you get compliments about? How would you finish the sentence, โIโve just got a knack forโฆ?"
The next time you think you might not have what it takes to get the kind of life youโre after, enlist the help of your free square. Do you know how to play your free square?