The Happy Money Game
This is a game I've been playing with clients for over a decade and it has completely changed my relationship to money.
Most of us walk into money conversations afraid, and fear makes every deal binary: I win or you win. This game exists to prove the third option: a deal where you both win.
Have fun!
Most of us walk into money conversations afraid, and fear makes every deal binary: I win or you win. This game exists to prove the third option: a deal where you both win.
Have fun!
one of my first clients wasn't allowed to pay me at all. since then, it's paid me in spades in references, support and new clients.
— joe
— joe
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Agree to play
The goal is simple: find a deal that excites you and the person across the table. Not one you're happy with, not one you can live with. The one that excites you the most.
Whoever comes up with the most creative idea wins.
Whoever comes up with the most creative idea wins.
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Find the most exciting version of the deal
Share your proposals out loud. Everything and anything is in play: the money, how you'll work together, what happens if plans change. For each version of the deal, circle your excitement on your side and theirs on their side. The higher the numbers and the closer the two circles, the happier the deal!
proposed byyou →← them
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A 6 is "I could live with it". The game ends when a proposal excites you both. You feel it, you don't calculate it.
Run other experiments around money and more at artofaccomplishment.com/resources/experiments-toolkit