Bruce Von Stiers

Paul Kyraizi is one of those guys who you see on an LA street and wonder what show you’ve seen him in. Well, he’s not an actor but could have been one. What Paul does is write and direct feature films. He also has a seminar that he gives on living your life to the fullest. But his seminar is a little different than most. Paul’s seminar is about living like James Bond. That takes some chutzpah to tell people that they can go around being Bond. But Paul has been pretty successful at it. So successful in fact, that his seminar has been released on audio tapes and in a newly released book. I got a chance to read the book and was pleasantly surprised by what Paul had to say. The title of the seminar and the book is The Complete James Bond Lifestyle Seminar. The book was published by Ronin Books.

The book is soft cover and had 259 pages. It has 19 chapters and no pictures or graphics save the drawing of a Bond like character running with a briefcase and a helicopter in the background at the end of each chapter.

In this book, Paul promises to show you how to reinvent yourself as someone like James Bond. How do you do that? Paul gives tips on how to change your appearance, change your personality, get a Bond car, stay at exotic hotels and to gamble safely and well.

Paul spends the first chapter, A New Leader of the Pack, giving you background on both himself and James Bond. We learn that George Lazenby was Paul’s favorite James Bond. We also find out a little bit about Paul and how he came to put together a seminar that shows you how to live like James Bond.

The second chapter is called Your Base of Operations. Here Paul will tell you how to arrange your apartment to get the most potential out of it. He tells you how to establish a “mission control center” and get some Q gadgets. These aren’t exploding pens or garrote shoelaces. They are items that will aid you in your quest to be like James Bond. These items include a money clip, a new wallet and a calculator.

We later learn about how to handle cash in a Bond like manner and to show some class while spending it.
Paul then goes into obtaining a Bond personality and moves on to gaining confidence and getting the Bond girls. In a chapter called The Mission, there is a profound one line statement that answers the question “when do you lose?”

We are treated throughout the book with witticisms and stories that Paul uses to describe a point he’s trying to make. He describes moving a book from the bathroom to the sauna room next door and having a female visitor thinking him profound for reading in the sauna. He relates stories told to him by both men and women about their life and dating experiences.

Chapter 17 is called Rules of the James Bond Lifestyle. The first item is that he never runs out of cash. The last item is that he never runs out of cash. Redundant? Not according to Paul. James Bond would never, ever, run out of cash.

Is this a book that will change your life? It depends on how much you buy into what Paul has to say. He has some very interesting things to say about how to modify your lifestyle. Can you really become like James Bond? It also depends on the level of change that you are willing to accept. But if you want a view that is different than the average “change your life for the better” seminar, give The Complete James Bond Lifestyle Seminar a chance.

The book lists for $ 20. For more information about the book, visit the seminar web site at www.BondLife.com.