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Summary: I gave The Game last week for gifts!
Review: I was looking for a meaningful, special gift for the 9 ladies who support my office during the year. I gave them The Game and I included a note letting them know that I care as much about their personal lives as their professional lives. I challanged each of them to "pick a partner and play the game!"
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Summary: Comprehensive book and smart game
Review: Kelley's book covers a lot. I hope to do it justice while giving you a sense of what you'll find in it. First of all, there really is a "Game" that the author challenges and instructs you to play for 90 days (The game is very much like goal setting exercises transformed into a game you play with a partner). Kelley provides the rules, the scoring system, the strategies, and even a grand prize reward of $50,000 for whichever partner-team he deems to have changed their lives the most in 90 days. So what is the game? Well as the title implies, you are playing to improve your life dramatically. You choose the three or four areas you want to improve the most -- you are choosing from: Balance, Body and Health, Money, Relationships, Spiritual Life, Mind, Tools, Environment, Education, Family, Work, Charities, Hobbies, Interests, and Art. There is a chapter on each of these areas, full of excellent advice and true stories of previous game players, so that you have loads of strategies and inspiration to make your improvement. Let's say you read the book but opted to never register at the official website to play the game -- these chapters would still be worth the price. I liked the combination of smarts, specifics and spirituality woven into each one. But the originality of the book lies precisely in actually playing the game from start to finish -- from reading the book to turning in your final essay that extols your breakthroughs -- because the game provides an added motivation and support system that other books lack. My final comment would be this -- the books easily worth the price. The question is, once you read it, will you have the determination to play for 90 days? Realistically most won't -- it is a big challenge. But the ones who do will undoubtedly make major improvements. How could you not? Conscious, concentrated, focus on improvement for 90 days will change anyone's life. I humbly submit that if you are interested in succeeding, you will also like my book, Major in Success, especially for career or college success, it would be a great complement to Sarano's excellent book.
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Summary: A possible 'Classic' from a new author
Review: Mr. Kelley provides a great conversation about all those 'messes, what-tos and to-dos' rattle around in mind. Why do we carry these for years and never perform? You know the lists: I have always wanted to get in shape, I'd really like a better relationship with my daughter, I should learn those cell phone features... and the like. Where do these come from and why are they always so frustratingly just out of reach? More important than recognizing these frustrations, Mr. Kelley provides an elegant solution. In the form of a Game, a very special game, he challenges and empowers us to climb life's mountains whether actual or symbolic. This book is not about theory. It is a wake-up call and a will get you too to perform. In the end, like with all good games, there is a PRIZE. The book is well written and easily read. It is full of personal stories from both Mr. Kelley and from his clients built up over years of coaching successful people to even higher performance. And, along the way you will learn some timeless lessons about what it is to be human. A future Classic.
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Summary: Insights
Review: Saraon is right we are all aslep. we get up, do our thing and hardly notice where we are and what we are doing. Very few of us reach our potential. Very few of us build on relationships and let friends help us. We all think we have to do it ourselves and end up frustrated because we know we have not reached our full potential. Sarano's insights into the humnan psyche are right on. He has found a way for us to wake up and reach for new levels of success. There is not a person on this earth that will not learn and grow if they apply just some of the ideas put forth by Sarano. Ted Fuller
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Summary: All Life is Coaching
Review: The Game is deceptively simple in construct. In chapter after chapter,busy people tell how applying simple disciplines worked in their lives when they competed in the "game". The people are real. The changes in their lives are real, and some of them are dramatic. But the practical, simple, transforming work of the book is for each of us to decisively intervene on our own behalf in the sleepiness of daily life so that it becomes for us the miracle it really is. Yes, after a hundred pages or so the format of the story told is repetitive and even a little dull. The real news is however, that the book will do nothing in anyone's life who does not go to the website or call for help in setting up to play the game. Reading about the game will not do it! Only players savor the sweat and reap the benefits. If a prospective reader really wants to do something to enliven areas of her/his life then reading The Game combined with playing it with structure, affinity and community will alter the reader's level of awareness and increase the delight possible only in being present in the moment.
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Summary: All Life is Coaching
Review: The Game is deceptively simple in construct. In chapter after chapter,busy people tell how applying simple disciplines worked in their lives when they competed in the "game". The people are real. The changes in their lives are real, and some of them are dramatic. But the practical, simple, transforming work of the book is for each of us to decisively intervene on our own behalf in the sleepiness of daily life so that it becomes for us the miracle it really is. Yes, after a hundred pages or so the format of the story told is repetitive and even a little dull. The real news is however, that the book will do nothing in anyone's life who does not go to the website or call for help in setting up to play the game. Reading about the game will not do it! Only players savor the sweat and reap the benefits. If a prospective reader really wants to do something to enliven areas of her/his life then reading The Game combined with playing it with structure, affinity and community will alter the reader's level of awareness and increase the delight possible only in being present in the moment.
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Summary: Praise for The Game
Review: The Game offers highly effective universal principles for nurturing human greatness. -Deepak Chopra, MD.,bestselling author of How to Know God (Taken from the back cover of The Game)
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Summary: How I got what I wanted by playing a Game
Review: The title, The Game: Win Your Life in 90 Days couldn't be more accurate. I read this book in one evening. I found myself so excited to get into action and accomplish the things I had always wanted for myself. I began to play the game with a co-worker of mine and started to see results immediately. It was when I decided to take The Game Class through The Coaching Program that people around me started noticing the changes in me. They made comments like, 'you seem so much happier' and 'you have been so pleasant to be around'. I realized that by playing the game and getting out of life what I had always dreamed, I had a new vitality and it was clear to everyone around me. No amount of money could have bought this new lease on life.
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Summary: There are better MUCH better books out there
Review: This book is very repetitive--it could have been condensed down to about 10 pages, and even those 10 pages wouldn't be worth it.
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Summary: "The Joke", not "The Game"
Review: This book is well-written, and excellent information. It will change your life, feed your soul, nurture the aspects of your life you focused on (and others that you didn't!), and allow you to realize your full potential. Please read this book...you'll regret it if you pass by and don't take this opportunity! Start living your life!
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