How to Play the Game

Playing the game is rather simple. That is until you go out and play. My stories and patterns come up everytime. It never fails, at one level or another I feel resistance everytime. I guess, that's what I'm meeting when I play the game. To meet that part of me that I don't want to explore.

So, if you want to play, here are the levels I've played through over the past nearly three years.

Scavenger Hunt

This is what I consider the entry level. Go to a neighbor that is unfamiliar to you and play the old scavenger hunt game you played when you were young. Come up with some items to ask for, such as...a paperclip, used stamp, piece of junk mail, piece of pasta, toe nail clipping. Basically, anything you can think of. The idea is not to collect anything, but to connect with another human being and to experience what you experience.

Any time I play, I go out for an hour or half an hour. When I'm finished, I'm finished.

When I talk to someone at any of the play levels, I work on keeping my attention on my belly and on the other person. Sounds easy but I find it extremely difficult. Even putting my attention on the other person seems hard.

Gift Giving

When you are comfortable playing the scavenger hunt...that may be after one day of play or 10. It's up to you. I knew it was time to move on when I started getting bored at that level...seemed to easy.

Next you get to give gifts to strangers!! Anything inexpensive. I used those bit-size chocolate candy...Three Musketeers, etc. Wrap them in wrapping paper so the giftee doesn't know what you are offering.

Here's how I played it as set out in Jerry's Rigor Course.

1st 10...approach any old random stranger and offer them a gift. Come up with something to say. I realized when I started out that I would come up with this extravagent story, what BS. So I just kept it simple and stuck to the facts.

Next 10...approach people of the oppositte sex that you find attractive. This was an eye opener for me. The first lady I approached was a very attractive lady walking out of Victoria's Secret. Should I or shouldn't I. Well I took the risk and she actually stopped AND she was very nice. Over and over again I find that my story about someone is not very accurate.

The Next 10...approach men who remind you of your father. By this time, I need bodies. I was comfortable approaching people and I wanted to finish with the 10. Of course, I could have stopped at any time but my patterns kept me doing it "right."

So I needed lots of traffic. The best place for me was outside of Costco. A word of warning here. I stayed too close to the entrance and was invited to leave. I found if I walked around the parking lot, the store managment didn't come out to harass me. Another tack would actually be to talk to the store manager.

The next step is....

Selling Cards

Contact Wayne at a Choice Experience and he will sell you a batch of laminated Good Time cards. Even though, this is the first item you sell, you have been in sales the entire time. Making contact with another human being, getting them to stop their patterns and speak to you is a sale.

It was unbelieveable to me when I realized that we are just all walking around in our own bubble and don't even notice people when we are walking around. Oh, we notice them at a certain level, just enough to get by in the exterior world. I didn't realize it until one day I was out selling cards and a lady interrupted me...she was collecting money for a children's charity!!! She was selling me. But what I realized was that she had done something to interrupt my patterns and I felt something when she could get through my patterns. Wow, how could I reproduce those feelings in others? That was my next step.

Jerry recommends creating a sales "pitch" so that you don't have to come up with something new to say to people. So here's mine, I'll approach someone and say,

"Excuse me, you look like you might like to have some fun! If the stop, great. If not, I'm on to someone else...no harm no foul."

If they stop, I go to the next step, "Well, I'm selling these cards (book, etc.) and if I can't have fun doing it, I don't want to do it. It takes 60 seconds, would you listen?" If no, I'm on to the next prospect. If yes, I go into my pitch,

"Well, I'm taking a course that's designed to break up our habit patterns of like, talking to strangers. Now if you were to buy this card, you could just keep it and take it out when you're feeling down, or give it to a friend who is blue or just tell folks about this crazy guy at the Wharf who sold you this card. So what do you say, would you buy this card for a dollar, now?"

That's it. If they say Yes, it's a sale, if No, it's still a sale. Either way I thank them and tell them I had fun. Then I'm off to the next pitch.

Books

I eventually found selling cards very easy. I did not hesitate to approach couples or even larger groups. I had fun at it and was ready for the next level.

For the past 3 - 4 months I've been selling Jerry's Laughing With God It's a lot harder sell or I should say, I make a lot harder to sell. Anyway, if you get to this level, you have come a long way baby.