If Success Is a Game, These Are the Rules: Ten Rules for a Fulfilling Life |
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| Title: | If Success Is a Game, These Are the Rules: Ten Rules for a Fulfilling Life |
| Author: | Cherie Carter-Scott Ph.D. |
| Publisher: | Broadway |
| Type: | Book / Hardcover |
| Publication Date: | 26 December, 2000 |
| ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0767904265 / 9780767904261 |
| List Price: | $17.50 |
| You Save: | $15.71 |
| Amazon Price: | $1.79 (via Amazon marketplace seller) |
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Product Description
Do you wish you knew the rules for winning at the game of success?
Contrary to popular belief, success is not just about becoming rich and famous. Chirie Carter-Scott, Ph.D., realizes that everyone has their own personal definition of success, whether it be to run a business, raise healthy, happy children, have more spare time, get good grades, or become President of the United States. In If Success Is a Game, These Are the Rules, Chirie addresses the issues at the heart of a meaningful and successful life. She helps you define what success means to you, and then tells you in ten simple rules how you can achieve it.
Chirie learned the rules of success firsthand: she built her management consulting firm to serve top clients around the world, including IBM and GTE. Her books, including the #1 New York Times bestseller If Life Is a Game, These Are the Rules, touch hundreds of thousands of readers. And despite a calendar that shuttles her through dozens of time zones annually, she keeps her family close and connected.
With rules as clear as "Self-trust is essential" and "Your actions affect your outcome," Chirie guides readers step-by-step through all the various challenges on the path to success. From finding your true calling to discovering the riches abundant in day-to-day routines, to recognizing opportunities and managing your resources, If Success Is a Game, These Are the Rules is both inspirational and practical. Chirie explains the importance of having a vision but also the importance of setting realistic goals. She provides tools to help you identify your gifts but also tools to help manage your time. She shows you how to believe in yourself but also how to cultivate relationships with others. Success can be a difficult and precarious journey, but once we understand what our goals are and the ways that both advances and setbacks can work for us, we can begin to move closer to what we want, and to grow as individuals.
Illuminated with motivational and personal stories, and written in Chirie's warm, engaging tone, If Success Is a Game, These Are the Rules is the perfect guide for your journey as you seek to fulfill all your dreams.
Amazon.com Review
The definition of success (at least in America) is outward accomplishment, whether it's amassing a fortune or leaving a legacy of influence. But a personal sense of well-being or fulfillment--finding love and time with family--is often the inward measurement of success. The two need not be mutually exclusive, says Chérie Carter-Scott, an internationally recognized motivational speaker and management consultant who's written several other "rule" books, such as If Love Is a Game, These Are the Rules. She says that success is achieved only "when your own sense of well being and the extended symbols of accomplishment converge," a feat she says can be met by following her 10 basic guidelines about self-acceptance and self-motivation. Fortunately, her rules are easy to follow--no misty metaphors or perplexing parables. Each chapter is neatly devoted to a specific rule, such as "your actions affect your outcomes," or "success is a process that never ends." Real-life stories illustrate each rule, making the advice feel personal and applicable. When addressing rule 2, "wanting success is the first step in attaining it," Carter-Scott helps readers handle sabotaging loved ones who may feel threatened or jealous by your success, such as the mother who didn't want her son to apply to medical school because he might not be able to handle the rejection, or the so-called "best friend" who always insulted her friend's new clothing business. In the chapter on rule 3, "self-trust is essential," we meet Paul, the miserable banker who yearned to be an art dealer but wore the "golden handcuffs" of his big salary. A few years after analyzing his life and deciding to make a change, "Paul has become a successful art dealer, making close to the same salary he was making before," writes Carter-Scott. "Only now it brings him joy rather than binding him to his life." Although some of the examples may feel predictable, Carter-Scott's warm, folksy style should appeal to many readers, helping them to identify goals and follow through on them. --Gail Hudson
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Customer Reviews:
• 5*****
03 May, 2004
Have you ever found a book that can serve and satisfy all criterias? Strentghs: simple, easy to read, great examples. I agree with the reader from San Francisco, CA USA In a way it has much better explanation of success than in UP. Each book has its own strengths and weaknesses. They may not suit all your criterias.Weaknesses:???For specific cases you don't understand and are unsure, you just have to consult with the expert or buy another book that fills the gap or ask somebody who may be able to help.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Wonderful Book That Will Help You Discover Success
27 July, 2002
Read IF SUCCESS IS A GAME, THESE ARE THE RULES by Cherie Scott-Cater . . . this is a wonderful self-help book, but don't be put of by that description if you're not typically a fan of such material.Scott-Carter will make you a convert as she helps you discover what determine what success means to you . . . and that is perhaps the key benefit you'll gain from reading her book; i.e., it enables you to come up with you own definition and then achieve it via ten simple rules.I liked her use of examples, as well as probing questions . . . methinks you will, too, and you'll be surprised about how inspired you will be to achieve your various goals.There were many memorable passages; among them: I notice that many people put off doing this exercise [writing one's ideal obituary] because it confronts them with the reality of their mortality. I have found, conversely, that when you really examine your life head-on, you can be painfully honest about what you want to accomplish throughout your life. It is a bit uncomfortable writing down big dreams because they may sound highly ambitious or self-aggrandized, but unless you allow yourself to imagine your ideal life, you can never begin to make it happen. Imagining yourself at the end of your life looking back is a helpful tool to articulate what it is that you hope to accomplish during your lifetime.The formula to find your path to fulfillment is astonishingly simple: Follow your preferences, and they will lead you to your path. Find what brings you joy and satisfaction, and trust that it will also bring you prosperity. Find what makes your blood boil, and trust that it will also fuel your existence. Discover what makes your heart sing, and trust that it will create music in your life. In other words, find what matters to you, and trust that it is the signpost you have been looking for.One of the things that my clients and friends both love and hate me for is the fact that upon hearing them express a vision, I immediately ask, "When would you like to do that?" I do this because I am eager to see them have what they want. I know the only way this happens is through commitment.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Loved This Book!
17 July, 2008
This is also another book that has some great advice for living your everyday life!
- Amazon Customer Review
• An Amazing Writer For An Amazing Subject!
02 December, 2009
Cherie Scott-Carter was exceptionally inspirational in this book. Completely uplifting, relevant material, and completely new; it didn't feel like a repetition of her other books. Helped me so much with my life coaching practice! Highly recommended.
Sincerely,
Life Coach Lauren Marie Owen
(Fiction Pen Name: Lauren Lion)
- Amazon Customer Review
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