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If Success Is a Game, These Are the Rules: Ten Rules for a Fulfilling Life

by Cherie Carter-Scott Ph.D.

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• Released: 2000-12-26
• Sales rank: 1139145

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.

If Success Is a Game, These Are the Rules: Ten Rules for a Fulfilling Life customer reviews

• An amazing writer for an amazing subject!

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  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)

• Loved this book!

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  This is also another book that has some great advice for living your everyday life!

• Discovering Success Beyond Convention and the Material

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  "If Success Is a Game, These Are the Rules by Cherie Carter-Scott, Ph.D. provides a thoroughly researched, thoughtful account outlining the ten rules for achieving success alongside fulfillment. Her interview subjects convey compelling life stories with sometimes shockingly unexpected outcomes. Through her insightful research, she reveals the mindset and the heart necessary for achieving a fulfilled life. In the acknowledgements of Kirby Thibeault's book titled Wealth, he highlights how "societies are built on the underlying values they instill in their peoples, which seem to change from time to time. However, what does not ever change is the beauty of the human spirit and all that it can accomplish when realized." Cherie Carter-Scott, Ph.D., like Kirby Thibeault, understands with clarity that success is something beyond mere materialism and common convention. As taught by Kirby Thibeault, the greatest conceivable success is personal achievement for the betterment of all humanity."
  
  -Susanne Cardwell, owner/operator of Advert Marketing Solutions and avid supporter of the spiritual views of Kirby Thibeault, author of Wealth-

• 5*****

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  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.

• Wonderful book that will help you discover success

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  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.

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