Unforgiving

May 2nd, 2006 Sarano Kelley

Jason: Give us an update on the kids if you get time… we are all pulling for you, the team and the kids. The stakes are indeed very high for them and the message.

Sarano: The kids are doing well and I appreciate your and everyone else’s support. We have had to do a lot of around the clock kind of activities to set up teams for the superintendents, 2 groups of young people and a group of teachers and parents. We are blessed to have powerful partners like Dharmaboost, the members of SKI, TEAM and Brooke who have donated their limited free time for the kids. This has truly been a team effort. We are due to get the footage here on Monday. From there our Omaha team will go into action and I am hoping that by next Monday we will have the footage of the show up at the website for all of you to see. I have yet to see it myself but the effects are already being felt.

As you know Jason, we have conducted The Game for entire companies one company where I was coaching 1600 people all at same time and over their 90 days that company had a 60% increase in revenue. When I went to then do it for 9,000 sales people for a Fortune 500 company the unexpected cost of getting it done was a real financial set back for me. Then of course after I had the critical mass necessary to launch (I trained 3,000 out of the 9,000) the leadership of the company changed and my work with them was seemingly derailed. Admitedly, I got a bit depressed.

Here it is several weeks later since that set back and I called the acting president of the Fortune 500 company and got back in The Game. Rather than blowing me off as I feared he immediately went into action and that company is still a vital place for showing what The Game can do for some 10,000 people. I have no idea how much time got wasted by my getting “depressed” when it seemed like the “rules” of the game had changed.

After getting knocked down I almost didn’t get up before the ref got to 10…almost got knocked out of the game.

The kids on the tv show are representative of 300,000 young people we would like to lead to in the fall. While this doesn’t scare me I have to admit that I know alot is riding on it. Israel still continues to aggressively utilize this work and they will be following the show closely for indications of what to do with the children of the middle east.

When it comes to the city of Dallas unless I get a major media opportunity I have no clue how I can make a significant difference there. The project isn’t stuck, I just haven’t found my way yet…many think that the Albany tv show could help to rally the media and other resources in Dallas.

It’s strange, I have always hoped to show what a person, a team, a school, a school district, a city and a country could do when people align themselves with their purpose and tap into their incredible potential.

It’s almost surreal to see aspects of them all happening.

At the same time, The Game that has me most “off balance” is the one for the kids. With the other games it seems that I can accept some amount of failure. I can accept that some temporary setbacks are vital to discovering what it will take to create the “final” win. When it comes to the kids the outcome is so important that my relationship to myself would be best described as “unforgiving”. I need to make peace with myself on that. I am giving it my all and that is all I ever ask of anyone else…at times I find it difficult to take my own medicine…speaking of medicine my partner Jon has been getting some encouraging news about his cancer…this is another place where I am unforgiving…I have not been consistent in calling him and I must admit that I am a bit angry with myself about that…trying to keep it all in perspective…your support helps a lot my brother…thanks for helping to keep me on track.

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