Life IS a Game:
Life Lessons Learned Living The Rules for Being Human
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Learning about attachment (1963)
When I was just 14, our beautiful New Jersey home was destroyed by fire. It wasn’t my fault and the experience of losing everything precious to me was devastating. It was my first experience with significant loss, besides my beloved horse, Linda. Clothes, toys, my rolltop desk with my travel brochures, and my horse statue collection, essentially everything that I called, “Mine” was either burned, water damaged, or smashed by the firemen. My mother reminded me that what is most important in life is intangible. Material possessions are part of life, but they are here and gone and don’t define us. We can rebuild, buy new things, and start over because we are strong.
This is an important lesson in attachment that would repeat itself throughout my life: Whenever I became too (tied) to people or things, I would always need to remind myself to let go of attachment to possessions. 1963 was an especially difficult year for our family. "The fire was cause enough, but that same year my father was involved in the soybean scandal and also lost his sister, Rosalind. The New Year's Eve report of my aunt's death seemed yet another of waves of misfortune that kept challenging our family's resilience.. It seemed like one wave after another kept challenging our resilience.
My Lesson: A lesson is repeated until learned. Only I define myself.
Your Questions: What early lesson presented itself to you? What did you do to see it as a lesson? Who helped you to recognize it as a learning opportunity?
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About the Book
Many yearn for a perfect life, with little to no stress, with total enduring health, loving relationships, opportunities, success, and unlimited happiness. Unfortunately, there aren’t many lessons to be learned from perfection. Lessons occur from overcoming adversity and from dealing effectively with disappointment, hurt, loss, trauma, and even tragedy.
In Life IS a Game, author Dr. Chérie Carter-Scott offers a narrative that showcases the anatomy of a life from the inside out. In 1998, she wrote If Life is a Game, These are the Rules: Ten Rules for Being Human which became a runaway bestseller on all the lists, and in 40 languages. Now, twenty-five years later, she’s written her life story in the context of the “Ten Rules for Being Human” and shares how they apply to challenges, breakdowns, breakthroughs, and victories.
Through a series of vignettes, Life IS a Game provides guidance for overcoming adversity and reframing your circumstances to imagine the value of challenges. Carter-Scott helps you look at life through the lens of enlightenment.
About the Author
Dr. Chérie Carter-Scott and her partner, Michael Pomije, are the only Master Certified Coaches who are married and teach, travel, and live together since 1990. They love each other more each day because they live what they teach: Transformational Executive Coach Certification; they are role models for people everywhere.