How To Live The James Bond Lifestyle [Audio Cassette]

Paul Kyriazi (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 20, 1999

A serious 90-minute audiobook seminar written and read by Paul Kyriazi. A course for men that shows you how to upgrade your life to the level of 007 no matter your age or financial level. The chapters include: Bond symbols for Action, Re-invent yourself, Your Base of Operation, Your Appearance, Your Personality, Your Bond Car, The Mission, Bond Women, The Ultimate Secret of Women, Hotels, Las Vegas, Casinos and Gambling, Avoiding Villains, Upgrading your Image, The Greatest Adventure.

Editorial Reviews

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Any man can learn how to be a dashing secret agent. -- Canada Edmonton Journal, November 30, 1999

James Bond is too cool. What guy wouldn't want to be like him? -- Cleveland Plain Dealer

Kyriazi's wisdoms are on the mark making listening worth the time it will take to hear many of its truths. -- The Boox Review

Paul Kyriazi specializes in making men of mice, and Bonds out of barely successful fellows. -- Fandom - 007 Forever

Whether it be the intricacies of women or gambling; Bond and Kyriazi know and the latter is willing to share. -- mi6.co.uk/mi6.php3, October 2005

About the Author

Director and author Paul Kyriazi is currently giving seminars on How To Live The James Bond Lifestyle.

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Ronin Audio Books; 90-min cassette edition (September 20, 1999)
• ISBN-10: 0970067798
• ISBN-13: 978-0970067791
• Product Dimensions: 4.3 x 2.7 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,512,249 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A tape to upgrade your life!, August 25, 2001

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Rhino (Saint George, Ut United States) - See all my reviews

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At first I thought this tape was going to be some kind of joke. Man, was I surprised. The stuff talked about in this tape is certaintly going to improve and upgrade your life, if you do what the tape says. Some great advice about money, clothes, and cars,as well as goal setting. What I found very good was the way he takes James Bond and makes Bond a metaphor for your life. I will never watch a James Bond movie the same way again. I tried several of the ideas, and they work. I now listen to this tape several times a week. If you're looking to upgrade your lifestyle, this tape is a gem.

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Licence to Live, October 20, 2000

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J. H. Minde "Everything I need is right here" (Boca Raton, Florida and Brooklyn, New York) - See all my reviews
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Paul Kyriazi moves through the elements of living the James Bond lifestyle like a silken-sailed clipper ship in a fresh breeze. This 90 minute motivational tape is densely packed with practical information on personal improvement and developing a personal style--everything from organizing your thoughts to reading the wine list at your favorite Vegas hotel.

You can take or leave Kyriazi's specific advice on certain subjects (such as "Order the cheapest champagne by name so she won't know." Personally, my Bond Girl knows more about champagne than I do!) Still, 99% of this tape is an excellent primer for upgrading your life and lifestyle

Whether you are a Bond man or a Bond woman this book on tape is well worth the price. I'm only sorry it isn't on CD, since I expect I'll wear mine out. It won't make you Sean Connery, or Ursula Andress, but it will help to make you a better, more vibrant, you.

The single drawback of this tape is that "How To Live The James Bond Lifestyle" should be an entire series of lectures. You may not agree with everything Mr. Kyriazi says or suggests, but this tape certainly gives you food for thought. And a taste of Dom Perignon to go with it.

Enjoy!

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LICENCE TO LIVE, PART TWO

Seven years ago I had the pleasure of discovering Paul Kyriazi's HOW TO LIVE THE JAMES BOND LIFESTYLE in its 90-minute cassette tape audiobook format. At that time I was very impressed with most of what I heard. Despite the "James Bond" metaphor, Paul Kyriazi steered sharply away from the cheap and superficial womanizing, drinking, gambling and fighting elements of the Bond universe to draw out the best side of the character. Although some of Mr. Kyriazi's specific advice was not applicable to my own lifestyle, or even my imagined James Bond Lifestyle, I could see where Mr. Kyriazi was going with this idea, and overall, HOW TO LIVE THE JAMES BOND LIFESTYLE was a very positive condensed self-improvement course. The eponymous book that followed only expanded on the tape.

Now he has re-released HOW TO LIVE THE JAMES BOND LIFESTYLE on eight full-length CDs, and expanded on both the tape and the book. With each iteration of the course, Mr. Kyriazi gets further away from being intensely focused on the character of Bond and closer to being intensely focused on the individual seminar participant's character. Perhaps Mr. Kyriazi's residing in Japan is having a subtle effect: With his continuing reminders to stay focused and live mindfully, HOW TO LIVE THE JAMES BOND LIFESTYLE has taken on a very spare, elegant, and Zen-like flavor, spiced in places with instruction of how to game (not gamble) in Las Vegas, and how to find and fall for your own Bond Girl (no sexy cyphers these, but exciting, enjoyable and intelligent women you will want to spend time with, and who will want to spend time with you).

This daylong course is capped with a meditation technique (formerly, HOW TO CLEAR THE SUBCONSCIOUS FOR 00 AGENTS, previously available as a separate tape, now expanded as well).

Never really a course on "How To Pretend To Be A Cinematic Secret Agent," HOW TO LIVE THE JAMES BOND LIFESTYLE has now developed to the point where it could really teach James Bond a thing or two. This diamond IS forever!

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A motivational tape like no other, February 26, 2002

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Daniel A. Longoria (Olney, IL) - See all my reviews
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To start off, this tape has changed my life for the better in more ways then I'd ever imagined possible. I was dubious about the tape at first, but as an old James Bond Fan I figured it would be worth it for that reason alone. I've yet to find the words that can adequately describe the complete 180-degree turn my life has taken. I was once a dirty t-shirt wearing couch potato with no direction or ambition having been a pessimist all my life. In the first hearing of this tape his information and guidelines hit me, as Paul Kyriazi puts it, "like a brick going through a plate glass window." It's all so simple. I never would have though that a simple object like a money clip could make the difference in my whole way of thinking. My wife and daughter were, and four weeks later, are still amazed at the new me. And the reaction to my new way of dealing with people and my job, for the first time EVER, have attracted the attention from the big shots at work. The numerous double takes and compliments were, and still are, a major boost to my, once, low self-esteem. I've read dozens pf self-help books through the years and THIS tape is the one that actually has real world advice that works. Thank you, Paul, for changing my life!