Tao of Your Game

By Bozhana Ivanova and Dragomir Sokolov

Ebook Tao of Your Game. Tao of Your Game is a book I wrote for you to share that I see life as a game where playing is living and living is constant movement – this is to be alive. In this sense, life is a game and the game is life, meaning that you need to grow your imagination and discover new ways of doing things in order to achieve results you couldn’t achieve before and see views you haven’t seen yet.
I’m willing to share with you what I’ve learned – my way of living, the methods and mindset that work for me, but the best I can do is to encourage you to listen to yourself, explore and recognize what works for you.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Oct 2, 2020
• ISBN: 9781716538940

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To my sister Martina and my brother Ivan

TAO OF YOUR GAME

Copyright © 2020 by Dr. Bozhana Ilieva Ivanova

All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner without the express written permission of Dr. Bozhana Ilieva Ivanova except for the use of brief quotations.

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Ebook

First Publishing, 2020

9781716538940

Imprint: Lulu.com

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Edited

by Petro Abrykosov

Revised

by Martina Ivanova

Cover illustration

by Dragomir Sokolov © 2020

Acknowledgements

Thank you:

To my family for always supporting me in the best way they can. To the Klasnic family for being such an inspiration.

To my dear friend Dragomir Sokolov, who designed the book cover, to Petro Abrykosov for editing the text, to Martina Ivanova for proofreading, to Marinela Kola and Anna Valenzuela for testing the content, to my Daniel and my dear friend Prasad for being there for me, to Blagovest Petrov for always making me smile. Your friendship, open-mindedness and support made the publishing of Tao of Your Game possible.

To my mentors and to my teachers (you know who you are) for helping me develop.

To all my friends. I decided not to mention your names here but to reach out to every one of you and express my gratitude in person.

To my beloved Milen, who showed me what true love is, and to my beloved Polya, who loved me as if I was her own daughter.

Thank you all, I love you all!

Contents

Acknowledgements

Tao of Your Game

About the Author

About Tao of Your Game

Part One | Mindset

Reality checks

Sight

Decisions and responsibility

Abandoning blaming and judgement

Abandoning the victim mentality

Constant learning, raising awareness

Self-discipline, choosing a goal, passion

Attention

The big picture and having a vision

Solution-oriented mindset

Thoughts, feelings and emotions

Fears, illusions, assumptions

Know yourself and you know the Universe

Jumping into the unknown, dreaming big

Excuses, honesty, forgiveness

Health, hygiene, fasting

Creativity, imagination, inspiration

Breaking the habits, creating alignment

The wisdom of the elderly

Awareness, courage, confidence

The right motives, strategies

Investments, mastering skills

Balance, simplicity

Patience and recognizing the right moment

What sport has taught me

Cycles, activation, giving and taking

Performance

Choices and changes

Values or virtues

Samurai creed

Inner peace, the Way of Complete Happiness

How is your balance?

Part Two | Performance

Strategy

Project definition and description

Goals

Roadmap

Backlog and idea funnel

Work in iterations

Personal agile board, planning

Daily work, good practices

Progress review, retrospective, lessons log

Closing this book with a smile

A Tiny Reading List

Tao of Your Game

You have caught me in a wonderful state of mind – here, now I feel completely happy. I’m at peace, I live in balance, I’m filled with love and gratitude. Even when there is a challenge ahead of me – I accept it, I face it and I do my work. Walking my way makes me feel completely happy. And I’m willing to share with you what I’ve learned – my way of living, the methods and mindset that work for me, but the best I can do is to encourage you to listen to yourself, explore and recognize what works for you.

What is put in words is not the fact, to see you have to go through it.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

I noticed that many difficulties in life come from the lack of movement and development, from being stuck, paralyzed or not being able to move forward in some way. I see life as a game where playing is living and living is constant movement – this is what it means to be alive. In this sense, life is a game and the game is life, meaning that you need to expand your imagination and discover new ways of doing things in order to achieve results you couldn’t achieve before and see views you haven’t seen yet.

Being in balance plays a significant role in the way I see life. In a way, balance means living without extremes. It is health on each level – physical, mental and emotional. It requires alignment between one’s words, thoughts, will and actions. This is what I mean when I say whole or healthy.

Everything I do, think and feel I see as a form of creation. As a professional, I’ve learned some methods and techniques which I started applying in my side projects and for my personal growth. Then, I started making progress on tasks I was postponing for months or years, such as learning a new language, improving the communication with certain members of my family, practising a martial art or a sport, making a difference with my volunteering work and such.

From one thing, know ten thousand things.

~ Miyamoto Musashi

I’m constantly learning. I learn from the best sources – from nature and native people, from the best players and books in a certain area, from sports and martial arts. Furthermore, I adopt the best practices and apply them in my daily work. It seems to me that it is all connected, and a method in one field can be applied successfully in other fields, too.

I have learned to use strategy and innovation in order to achieve success. This means that I perform and deliver successfully before reaching the time and budget limit of each of my projects. What is more, I constantly work, measure my progress and learn. I break down big goals into small achievable chunks, then I do the first step and I continue refining my results. All in all, I have learned to work in a smarter, more effective and efficient way, minimizing the unnecessary effort. I work every day, I keep my game in balance and away from extremes.

In this book I share with you how I choose to live – light-hearted, with a straight back and a smile on my face. Nurturing balance in my life for so long has made my state of mind independent of (or less dependent on) external factors, and I believe this is healthy. I’ve learned to listen to the world and to my body. Nowadays, I go through changes easily, I adapt quickly, I recover faster, I achieve