"Top of Your Game" Winning Guide

“Top of Your Game”The Guide to Winning at

EverythingDiscover the secrets to making

your game experience the absolute best.

Unlock the potential that attracts

good fortune and earns deserved fame.

Eliminate bad luck, misfortune, and circumstance beyond your control.

“Top of Your Game”The Guide to Winning at

Everything

Hosted by: Jonathan Albin, the ‘Game Market Guru’

Author of : “Your Life. Your Game. Your Move.”“Top of Your Game” “Counter Measures.”

“Top of your Game” © 2014, Jonathan Albin. All rights reserved. Reproduction without expressed written consent is not authorized.

Jonathan Albinthe ‘Game Market Guru’

I get people playing games.


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Characteristics of Winning

Mechanics of Winning

Dynamics of Winning

Winning isn't everything, but wanting it is. -- Arnold Palmer



“Winning at Everything”???

Games Lubricate both the body and the mind.-- Benjamin Franklin


Definition of a game:Any event of limited scope, site, span and

substance that requires personally present participation and

reasoning, response and resolution

The longer you play, the better chance thebetter player has of winning. -- Jack Nicklaus

What do we mean by ‘winning’?Relative positionRelative valueEngaged DirectlyEmotional response? Have you ever competed?Agreed Conclusion or Outcome



Winning isn’t everything. It’s the ONLY thing. -- Vince Lombardi

What are the ramifications of winning at EVERYTHING?Fewer Chances to PlayOpponents get more severePressure to ‘Break the RulesContinued wins lead to mistrustPlay of the game becomes uninterestingGame play loses meaning


Challenges of Winning

If there's anything you could point out where I was a little different, it was the fact that I never mentioned winning.

-- John Wooden


Consequences of Winning Like a Leader Energized Regenerated Successful Exemplary

Stress-relief Happiness Powerful ‘Top of the World’ Indomitable

Envious Outraged Embarrassed Jaded Unworthy

Angry Self-loathing Sad Inconsolable Defeatist

What does ‘Winning’ feel like? What about ‘Losing’

Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.Harry Emerson Fosdick

Why the big differences between Winning and Losing? Cultural patterning. Survival of the Strongest Game play allows proportional testing A winner’s confidence is necessary A loser’s self-doubt is also necessary


Consequences of Winning

What IS the difference between Winning and Losing? Decision to maintain self-confidence Recognition of value of the experience Acceptance of the winner Getting to internalize the impact. Ownership of our decisions Need for discipline and learning Seek the next opportunity.


Consequences of Winning

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

-- George Orwell

How can one be a Winner if you don’t actually win? Accept the definition of “Game” Never accept ‘loser’ feelings Get excited about playing in general Expand your game repertoire Let others also WIN.


Take YOUR Game up a Level

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.Albert Einstein

What, then, can one do to become a “Winner”? Teach others to play, and expand the pool of

players. Respect and appreciate the opportunity to play. Apply the lessons that losses can offer. Play a variety of games, and play often.


Take YOUR Game up a Level

My winning is getting to perform. That's my victory. -- Kelly Clarkson

Don’t you then want to be a Winner at Everything?Who’s ready to do whatever it takes, to do so?

First, learn all the rules of the game. Then play the game to the best of your ability.

-- Albert Einstein

Do you have a game group that meets regularly?

What kind of games do you play?

Are you the driver, the host, the ‘foil’, or something else?

Why do you want to be a ‘Winner at Everything’?


Mechanics of Winning

One day they're gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many

times as I can before it's my turn to leave.Tupac Shakur

Develop the Mystique: The “tricks” of game theatrics

The power of prophecyTime as a tool in telling of a tale.

Care and feeding of PiPs.Capriciousness and ControlThe ‘Pit’ strategy redefined

Playing the Game you want to PlayThe selective use of the Saving ThrowLetter of the Law vs. Spirit of the Story: Which one

Wins? “Top of your Game” © 2014, Jonathan Albin. All rights reserved. Reproduction without expressed written consent is not authorized.

The Lighter Side of being a Winner

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

--Leonardo da Vinci

When the win would cause another to quit. When the win would cause bad player

experience. When winning hinders communication. When gotten by unethical or immoral means. When it is the only reason to play. When we measure our self-worth with it.


When is a “win” not a “WIN”?


--Leonardo da Vinci

When loss validates the game. When you lose with grace. When it leads to a ‘learning moment’. When the loss serves the game’s ‘story’. When the loss feeds into your positive

‘mystique’. When we are humbled, not broken by them.


When is a “loss” actually a “WIN”?


--Leonardo da Vinci

How is life, now, knowing you can ‘Win at Everything’?

What are you going to be able to do, that you didn’t before?

Who else do you know that could use this new talent, attitude, skill?

How would you apply this in your current game group?


How Winning at Everything Matters

“With much power comes much responsibility” –Aunt May

What kind of world will it be, when everyone plays games across tabletops again? I believe there will be more comprehension, compassion, and communication. That we will have a new dialogue, an innovative surge, and an imaginative expansion. That a Leisure Economy is emerging, and unless and until we embrace the casual and colorful among us, we will continue to grieve over the industrial age of our grandparents. –Jonathan Albin


Dynamics of Winning

“All the world’s indeed a stage Game Table, and we are merely players”.

-Jonathan Albin

We engage others on game tables, physically, for fun.

We play games in our work relationships We take on others in family and personal

relationships ‘Winning at Everything’ is

more than just fun and games. “Top of your Game” © 2014, Jonathan Albin. All rights reserved. Reproduction without expressed written consent is not authorized.

Playing “Above Board”

AI from “Wargames”“The only way to win, is not to play.”

The Albin Postulate: “The only way to lose, is not to play”

What are some reasons one might WANT to lose a game? What are some creative WAYS to ensure we will lose a

game? What are the ramifications of being discovered “playing to

lose”? ‘Winning at Everything’ is realizing that the game

is more important than who wins or loses.


Playing “to lose”

Winning at Everythingis just like being an Air Traffic Controller.

Practice the skills to be able to accomplish your goals Develop the supreme confidence that your decisions are

correct. Create a personae for communication that is trustworthy Take confident action and trust the evidence provided Whether right or wrong, the act of taking action is always

better than waiting for someone else to do so.


Winning is an attitude, not a result of playing.


Game Play should be a positive experience, with the winner or the loser only determined to achieve a scoring condition, and an opportunity to choose a different game next time.


Jonathan Albinthe ‘Game Market Guru’

Gets people playing games.

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