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Outside my window this morning there were dolphins playing around which ispretty often these days. I was on back to back coaching calls and actually got in a very brief nap along with my morning meditation and a light first workout for the day. About midday I saw what looked like a
whale close to shore but I was too into the heat of my coaching to really take a look and whales are not something you see around here. After several helicopters, coast guard trucks and boats went whizzing by Brooke told me that the “whale” I saw outside my window was a plane that had
crashed and that someone was killed and they were looking for a suvivor. I must have been looking at it when it first crashed when it looked like a whale with it’s tail out of the water.
I must say here at the end of the day that after starting with a 4am partner call and working almost straight from 5am till now almost 8pm I am tired, crabby and slightly depressed. I only drank a 1/2 gallon of water so I am sure that dehydration is wrecking havoc on my emotions right now.
I was so beat that I had to call my daughter and my brother both to tell them I was too tired to talk. My brother is signing up for a transformational training course and my daughter just started school in her new hometown of Boston. I have never had my brother and my daughter call me and leave me messages before, so my game is definitely working when it comes to relationship…it’s just that right now I am crashing and I can feel the negativity that comes with it coming over me…I am going to get in a brief second workout, meditate and go to sleep…still have a lot of work to do…this is stacking up to be a tough week. I heard that the two people in the crash died…one of them was a well known game show host, my two partners in the television show are both game show hosts I wonder if they know the guy who died. He and his wife died flying a plane to carry patients in need of help. They died while on a mission to save
someone else’s life. The game show host and his wife must of been some pretty incredible people…tired.
March 13th, 2006
Sarano Kelley
We worked out the details on the television production schedule for the prime time television show on ABC with me leading The Game for kids and it is right around the corner. Of course, given the vacation schedule of the kids the time that is needed falls right on my vacation week. So much for my vacation. I Will have to find another way to reward myself and recoup from this game in terms of time off.
It’s Sunday evening and I’ve had about 12 hours or so off and the rest of the time has been spent just getting caught up on emails. I still have my largest business proposal of the year to write, the proposal for the tv show to finish and in 7 days I give the largest speech and likely most important speech of my career…things have taken an intense turn in this game.
My relationships are going great…in fact, never better. Just spent the week visiting with friends and clients in NYC and then spent the weekend in Boston with my game partner Barry. Even got to visit with my daughter who has just moved to Boston. Had dinner with her and her mom and Barry, I can tell that they both fell in love with Barry…to know him is to love him. My brother and I are working hard on getting our relationship back on track. Brooke saw me through a challenging week of travel and despite the intensity of her own work makes time to be my biggest source of support and energy.
All of that aside I stepped on the scale this morning and I am back to 200lbs. To say I am irritated with myself would be an understatement. I will refrain from cursing here at my blog. Back to 2 a day workouts and a gallon of water a day till I can get myself back down in weight…only this time I am not going to give myself the option of going back up. I am going back to training for a triathalon as well as getting my black belt in jujitsu and training for a competition. Without some structure that is always there to bump up against I go unconscious and the weight creeps up on me. Having people twice my age run circles around me and people half my age kick my butt seems to be just the inspiration I need. I turned up the heat on myself today and there’s no taking it off.
March 13th, 2006
Sarano Kelley
Well I bottomed out about emotionally and was able to avoid a likely bout of depression by simply surrending. Little Marty is dead and there is nothing I could of done about it. My daughter is traveling across country and she is in God’s hands not mine. Roger had a heart attack and all of the missing in the world won’t bring him back. I reconciled myself that being unproductive was no way to serve the living and it is no way to honor the dead.
I coached powerfully all day on Tuesday and only had to change my schedule in a way that affected one call due the emergency some of this has created. I got on the phones today with the television producer who is putting me in front of the New York school superintendents and giving us a shot at a network television show and a chance to transform 150,000 childrens lives.
Last night I watched Pat Finn deliver The Game to an incredible group of people as I did Sensei Ron last week and we have successful brought The Game to atheletes and celebrities effective as of this morning. Watching them was just what I needed to get back in the game…a dose of my own medicine delivered by two men whose very presence causes transformation.
Prayer, surrender, meditation, the reading of scripture this is what is most missing from my game right now. I have fallen into the usual trap of thinking that all of this means something and that somehow I am going to get somewhere. I have bought into the illusion that I can somehow control The Flow…this is a constant mistake…I must let go and be at one The Flow…after all, I know how the story ends, the beauty is to be found in the playing for ultimately as Will Smith said in the movie Bagger Vance about golf “it’s a game that can’t be won only played”.
March 1st, 2006
Sarano Kelley
Well I went to physical therapy and felt like an ass for getting so emotional in my audioblog. I hate that I get all emotional and then I get all emotional about the fact that I got emotional.
I was already stunned as I recorded in my audioblog…going into this weekend one of my mentees was feeling disconnected from our mentee group and part of what was hurting so bad was that her 10 year old sister was diagnosed with cancer…I was affected…I stopped hiding from my own emotions and pain and so I am open to the pain and emotion of others.
Then as I began my coaching day one of my guys was missing and it turned out he was grappling with cancer today. By midday today I opened my email at lunch to take a break from my coaching day which starts at 5am only to find out that a friend and client Alice had lost her 44 year old son in an auto accident recently. This brought up all sorts of emotions and fears with my daughter and her mom driving across country.
By the time I got on my company call to end my coaching day on a positive note one of my friends and coaches Par had to jump of the line because a close family member had just had a heart attack and died.
I picked myself up and dusted myself off but I know I was deeply hurt that this had happened and that I did not know…was so wrapped up in my own little world. Then after my audioblog I went to physical therapy and returned only to get a message from my best friend Doc that a boy who was important in my life had just drowned at 19 years old. He was the closest experience I had ever had of having a son in my life as we lived together for some time. Doc also was really hurt but went on to share with me that our friend and fellow coach Roger had also just passed away from a heart attack in his sleep.
I don’t know, it was all a bit much, and then here at the end of the evening I finally connected with my daughter and just as she got off the phone she told me that she was going to Memphis to visit the grave of my good friend Willy Frye who died a few years ago at 44 years old as well.
What Georgia doesn’t know and what I didn’t have the heart to tell her is that little Marty died. The last time we saw little Marty and Willie was when they both happened to be in California by coincidence and we all went to lunch. Odd that out of eight people at that lunch one of the worlds greatest athletes and a 19 year old healthy boy are both no longer here.
Of course, before going to bed I get the call that we are on to meet with a large gathering of superintendents of schools for several cities. There is a group of television personalities who are presenting The Game as a way to turn around their school system. Not taking the call and not being at my best would be no way to serve the living and no way to honor the dead. I know what my purpose is, I know where my responsibilities lies, I am hurt and yet must I serve. Thousands of childrens lives could be turned around and because they wish it to make the subject of a television show many more lives would be impacted.
My fiancee is concerned about me and so are some of my friends. I am fine…just having to deal with a lot right now. I love Brooke so much. In the words of the title of the great Eugene O Neil play it has definitely been “A Long Days Journey Into Night”.
February 28th, 2006
Sarano Kelley
February 27th, 2006
Sarano Kelley
This is always the part of the process that I can’t figure out. The point where all resistance seems to fall away and what you think, what you want and what shows up happen almost immediately.
Whether it is something as small as needing to talk to a person and picking up the phone to call them only to find them calling me on the other line to finding exactly the right person that I need to answer an exoteric business question.
It is definitely happening with people. I was going to call an expert this week to get on his calendar instead I got an email with an invitation to come meet with him. Mayumi a woman that I met who does similar work as mine or her referring me to a company which was exactly the company I have been looking for.
It always begins this way at some point and I don’t see yet how or why. I know the usual mumble jumble but I am not looking to repeat something someone else told me, I feel the need to see and understand it for myself.
It has also begun to show up around me more strongly than usual, Molly getting her jewelry line in a top store is just a small example. My partner Barry has had more wins in the last several weeks than many of us may see in a life time. I don’t know that it has anything to do directly
with me but indirectly the connection is undeniable. I find myself manifesting and manifesting manifestation…an interest occurrence.
February 23rd, 2006
Dhrumil Purohit
February 22nd, 2006
Sarano Kelley
Yesterday was quite the day. My senior coach Luciano and his wife Sara were working yesterday with me on coaching and she went into labor early in the morning so there is a baby on the way. My other coaching collegue had a family member return after their being away for a long time at the end of the coaching day so all in all it was a pretty exciting day.
I am almost relieved that I have hit the mid point. I know that the next 38 days of this Game are going to be really hard for me. It is going to take that long to come out from under the effects of the last quarter of 2005 where I did the most travel I have in 5 years but also had some of
the weakest numbers I have ever had in a final quarter of the year. At the same time I will likely enter the best quarter of my career because of all of the work I have done to correct the problems but I can only turn a battleship but so fast.
I must say though that despite all of the change that went on yesterday and the fact that I worked from about 6am till about 8pm my game is going pretty good. I am on top of my work, I have significantly improved my relationship and romance with Brooke and we are eating very clean while working out a lot more. My personal relationships are blossoming and I am in touch with friends I have not spoken to in a long time. Particularly some the players who are reworking the curriculum with me, some of the best people I have ever had the honor of working with.
I need to get to meditation now since I have a long coaching day because of the Monday President’s Day holiday. I can feel the pull of the last 45 days and the finish line is in sight. It feels so different than the push of the first 45 days, kinda like sliding downhill…strange but wonderful feeling.
February 22nd, 2006
Sarano Kelley
Attached is my updated Game 30 Point System and Timeblock.
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February 20th, 2006
Sarano Kelley
I spent last night and this morning with my 2:45am game partner who flew all the way from Little Rock to come see me. He and his business partner have played The Game several times. In fact Rob is one of a hand full of people authorized to lead The Game and he has led to over a 100 people from several countries.
Currently he is dealing with a painful relationship situation that I was not entirely present to from our phone conversations. Once we were face to face I could see and feel the pain he is in.
I have watched him overcome many things and come back from “the dead” several times using The Game. I cannot and will not allow him to fail. He has saved my sorry butt more times than I can count and in more ways than I care to admit. Allowing him to fail would be like letting down my father/Father…it’s just not going to happen while I am still breathing.
He is now on my hit list and I will punch his number even if I have to get on a plane and show up on his front door to do it. The kid gloves are now off in our relationship…this time it’s personal. I owe him at least that much.
February 19th, 2006
Sarano Kelley
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