Play Your Bigger Game: 9 Minutes to Learn, a Lifetime to Live

by Rick Tamlyn

Overview

Change the way you think about work, productivity, and creativity - and go from surviving to thriving!

Play Your Bigger Game provides a philosophy and methodology that you can learn in just nine minutes, and it will serve you for the rest of your life. Self-empowerment expert Rick Tamlyn believes that life is all made up. So why not make it a game of your own design—one that excites, challenges, and allows you to fully express your talents and creativity?

When you play your bigger game, you create a life that is dynamic, engaging, and wildly inspiring. This book is your antidote to inertia—you will never feel stuck again. Each and every day, it will motivate you to keep stretching, achieving, and thriving above and beyond any boundaries or limitations that might have held you back in the past. Play Your Bigger Game offers pathways, tools, and inspiring stories to feed the hunger in your soul, light the fires of your imagination, and build a fulfilling life and a lasting legacy.

If you long to:
• have a more positive impact within your family, your work, your community, or organization
• make a change, but you aren’t sure what sort of change
• create meaningful work
• take responsibility and direct your destiny
• make a difference or leave a legacy

. . . then you should join thousands of others around the world and play your bigger game!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781401943691
Publisher:	Hay House Inc.
Publication date:	10/01/2013
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	248
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Rick Tamlyn is a sought-after self-empowerment expert who works internationally as an experiential keynote speaker, coactive trainer, and facilitator. Using his own unique brand of wisdom, wit, and humor, Rick’s presentations and workshops are interactive, dynamic, and entertaining. He has delivered over 500 conference keynotes, Bigger Game and Meet-Point-Dance workshops, and Co-Active Coaching and Leadership programs to individuals, teams, and Fortune 100 organizations around the globe. He has inspired and challenged thousands to achieve their personal and professional goals and up their game in service of a more fulfilling and sustainable world. Rick co-created and developed The Bigger Game, a tool that inspires executives, leaders, and everyday people to get out of their comfort zones and invent the life they want. He has also trained and certified leaders from seven different countries to deliver the program. He has been featured in two cover stories, in the Los Angeles Times and Motto magazine, and has also been a guest on Leeza Gibbons’s syndicated radio program. Rick has appeared on CNN’s business program Entrepreneurs Only, KABC’s morning news show, and PBS’s Life & Times. Rick is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC); a Master Certified Coach (MCC), as designated by the International Coach Federation (ICF); and a senior trainer for The Coaches Training Institute, a world-renowned coach-training and leadership-development organization. He has a B.A. in communications from Hope College in Michigan and an M.F.A. from the University of Connecticut. Website: www.ricktamlyn.com

Table of Contents

Introduction: Why Play Your Bigger Came? xiii

Part I Name Your Game

Chapter 1 How The Bigger Game Found Me 3

Chapter 2 The Bigger Game Is Good Business 19

Chapter 3 On the Board and in the Game 35

Part II Get in the Game

Chapter 4 Hungering for Something More 47

Chapter 5 Compelled by a Purpose 63

Chapter 6 Comfort Zones for Better and for Worse 73

Chapter 7 Take a Big Gulp 83

Chapter 8 The Best Investment You'll Ever Make 95

Chapter 9 Allies Add Up to a Bigger Game 109

Chapter 10 Sustaining Your Game and Yourself 131

Chapter 11 Assessing Your Game on the Go 147

Chapter 12 Bold Action Puts Your Game in Play 157

Afterword: Your Game May Find You 173

Join The Bigger Came Movement 193

Acknowledgments 195

About the Author 197

Editorial Reviews

"This remarkable new book, Play Your Bigger Game, is a powerful and brilliant piece of work that will inspire you to live and work in a way that is dynamic and fulfilling. If you are interested in making a difference with your life, if you are committed to living a life of meaning, if you are longing to live your life to the absolute fullest, Play Your Bigger Game is a must read. I have been deeply touched by the work of Rick Tamlyn. He is absolute magic. His message is breathing new life into people and organizations all around the world. Buy this book, read it and thrive, and share it with everyone everywhere!”
— Lynne T Wist, author of The Soul of Money, and cofounder of The Pachamama Alliance

“In this accessible and delightful book, author Rick Tamlyn teaches us that making a difference can be simple, playful, and fun. Tamlyn stimulates, entices, and inspires the Bigger Game player in each of us. Play Your Bigger Game is written for that place in each of us that hungers to contribute.”
— Karen Kimsey-House, CEO and co-founder, The Coaches Training Institute, San Rafael, CA

“The Bigger Game is an elegant and effective way to take ideas, dreams, and intangible goals and make them come alive and flourish with purpose. Rick Tamlyn is on to something extraordinary.”
— Sean Magennis, chief operating officer, YPO-WPO, Irving, TX

“We were fortunate to have Rick present The Bigger Game to our internal team. He was able to shift our mind-set regarding how we work together, recognize that we must play our game every day, and challenge us to see how our game would impact the organization. We still receive comments on how Rick’s message strongly resonated with our leaders on a professional and personal level.
“During these difficult economic times, it is imperative that each person is able to maximize their effort in order to make the greatest impact, and that all starts with understanding how to Play Your Bigger Game.”
— Kevin Mukherjee, leadership development consultant, national nonprofit organization

"Stepping onto the Bigger Game Board wakes you up—no kidding! The clarity, opportunities, hard truth, and soul-inspired passion that can be revealed offers you a choice—to be a player in creating a meaningful, wealthy life of purpose, or to live with the gnawing tension knowing that all of this is just one bold move away.”
— Carlo Bos, founder, Bos & Company, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

“The Bigger Game model continues to percolate in our church leadership and congregational life. It has given us a context, language, and process to use as our church continues to be a dynamic presence, resource, and catalyst in our community and in our world. Rick’s model fits seamlessly into our church’s traditions and supports our belief that our Creator God is still at work and play for good in our lives. I recommend this book to all houses of worship.”
— Rev. Keith w. Tamlyn, senior pastor, New Hackensack Reformed Church, Wappingers Falls, New York

“I have witnessed over and over again many leaders and managers of major Japanese companies become awakened to their deeper purposes of work through experiencing The Bigger Game. It is an eye-opening experience that impacts people’s lives worldwide.”
— Eisaku Tsumura, PH.D., Bigger Game trainer for leadership and organizational development, Tokyo, Japan

“Time and time again, the Bigger Game Board had my team innovating its way to success. Whenever we got stuck with our clients we just asked, ‘So where are we on the Bigger Game Board?’ Instantly someone in the team would have an ‘aha!’ moment and we were off and running again. The Bigger Game is a great team builder and activator for any corporate team.”
— Alan Roe, client executive, public sector sales, IBM Australia and New Zealand

“Play Your Bigger Game is about connecting dots from the past to the present and to the future. The Bigger Game takes you from an ‘it’s about me’ perspective to an ‘it’s about us’ perspective and empowers each of us to live a Bigger Game life and create shared value.”
— Hyunsook Kim, Bigger Game trainer and representative, Seoul, South Korea

“I watched the impact of a Bigger Game workshop launch an IBM sales team from last to first in the organization. And it was so much more than just sales volume. Their game was to bring success to their customers.
“I was their internal sales consultant and watched the team create innovative customer solutions and develop their employees to be their best. The more the leaders played their game, the more successful they became! Customers were delighted and employee satisfaction was high. They became the team everyone wanted to be on. And even as the core Bigger Game team members were offered new opportunities, they left as players—committed to spreading the message. The Bigger Game was life and career changing.”
— Sara Smith, IBM sales transformation manager, Fort Worth, TX

“I passionately embarked on my Bigger Game journey when first introduced to its technology. I was so inspired that I fervently spread The Bigger Game concepts to colleagues, executives, and teams, enabling me to witness others birth new possibilities when they united on common Bigger Games. If your soul is stirring for purpose, adventure, and/or transformation, choose Play Your Bigger Gameas your trustworthy escort.”
— Susan Valdiserri, president, Leaders of Purpose, Inc., Chicago, IL

“The Bigger Game model offers a powerful road map to fulfillment. It can be used in so many ways—to discover where you are, or to nudge you into that next bold step in pursuit of your dreams. Because it is authentic, it is universally applicable.”
— Leza Danly, founder, Lucid Living, Novato, CA

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