From Sabotage to Success: How to Overcome Self-Defeating Behavior and Reach Your True Potential

by Sheri O. Zampelli

Book Overview

Presents real-life examples, exercises, and action plans to help identify and recover from self-defeating behaviors. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0595254373
• ISBN13: 9780595254378
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.2" x 11.1"

Customer Reviews

Stop Hurting and Start Living!

Ever wonder why life is not showing up for you the way you think it should? Have you considered that you could be the only obstacle standing in the way of success? And speaking of success: Do you know what your personal success looks like? If you've answered "yes" to the first and "no" to any of the following: Sheri Zampelli can help you. As you may recall, I recently read and reviewed Zampelli's Donate Your Weight Weight Loss Program. After doing so - I rushed to collect the rest of Zampelli's parchment. Why? For starters, I like the way she leads readers from A to Z helping them overcome the most important obstacles: the intangible ones. After all, these are the challenges that keep us standing in our own way. And she uses this methodology to help readers overcome all of life's greatest challenges - including, but not limited to, weight loss. She does it in this way. In From Sabotage To Success, Zampelli first asks you to get to know and be honest with yourself. Through carefully crafted exercises, she asks you to step forward and review your "self" and your life - deciding your "role" as you see it. This information may surprise you as most of us define ourselves through others. Once established, this "coming clean" with regard to the past and present creates a jumping off point for charting a path to a destination of our own choosing. Next, you will create the ideal life you see for yourself. Zampelli asks you to "fast forward" and create this life by building your ideal version of it. You'll then back peddle into reality and prepare steps forward to reach this destination. Said differently, Zampelli asks the hard questions that we are afraid to ask ourselves. For example: She challenges us to make absolutely sure that our goals for ourselves are truly our goals. Why? She explains: most often roadblocks to success come when we define ourselves by others and the groups or "tribes" to which we belong. Therefore, to identify our authentic selves is the first cut to reaching personal success. Secondly, Zampelli helps you realize the hidden ways you can Sabotage this process - ways that until now you may not have recognized. Mostly this involves letting go of the negative ideas we currently hold about ourselves - those which often stem from our childhood. Perhaps you are overcompensating for your past by: Controlling others? Putting off your life? Holding back from expressing your feelings? Waiting for things to "work themselves out"? Focusing on the negative? Zampelli tells us, it's time to stop. In the second portion of the book, she leads readers by the hand to help us find our own definition of success, then offers exercises that you can use to work through these and other hurdles that could be standing between you and your vision for yourself. Here, she uses many of my favorite tools like creative journaling, mind mapping and affirmations. These will all help take you from where you are to where you'd like

Outstanding

I found From Sabotage to Success to be a delightfully fresh approach to presenting psychological theories, techniques, concepts, and jargon into an enjoyable, easy-to-read format. Ms. Zampelli offers a fresh new approach to presenting a wide array of comprehensive self-help techniques to just about any person who picks up the book!Although I have read probably just about every self-help book on the market, I found Sabotage to Success to be among the very best of its kind. Since it is my observation that most of the women who I work with tend to sabotage their own chances for happiness and success, I will be recommending it as a "Must Read" for all of my clients. If you want to improve your life in any way, this book will help you discover what's holding you back...and what you can do to grow.Cathy GargerPersonal Coach

Time Tested Techniques To Help You Overcome Self-Sabotage

From Sabotage to Success is an appropriate title for this book. It reflects my own personal journey from a place of despair and lack of information to one of empowerment and success. My journey continued as I found that the strategies I used to overcome my own self-defeating behavior were just as successful in helping others overcome theirs. This book was born out of years of personal experience as well as working with others to end self-sabotage.I have taught workshops on overcoming self-sabotage since 1992. In the beginning, before each workshop I wrote a lesson plan but the participants always added new ideas and insights which further enhanced each proceeding workshop. Eventually, my notes turned into handouts, then book chapters, and finally a full-fledged book. Throughout the book I provide real-life examples of persons dealing with a wide range of self-defeating behavior. I outline step-by-step techniques to overcome self-sabotage and each chapter ends with a task list and action plan including worksheets, journal ideas, charts, and graphs to help readers apply the principles of the book to their daily lives.I sabotaged my own success for many years. It wasn't until I began to change my old self-talk and stopped associating with negative, unsupportive people that true change occurred. I found that self-sabotage is often due to impatience and unrealistic expectations. I discovered that small, manageable goals followed by feasible rewards were an effective way to gain and maintain success. When you begin to focus on solutions, goals, and successes instead of problems and limitations, you can choose to recreate your life at any time, despite age or background. This book focuses on a holistic view of success. Rather than concentrating solely on material or career accomplishments, I invite the reader to define his or her own concept of success to include contentment, balance, and peace. My hope is that this book will help you feel more alive; that you will see your own value and cease acting in self-destructive ways. I offer many time-tested techniques for you to do so. The rest is up to you. I would love to hear about the successes you encounter as a result of applying this book to your life.

This book will help you overcome self-defeating behavior

"From Sabotage to Success" is a great book because it contains useful exercises to help one overcome negative behaviors. I recommend reading the book and doing the exercises within it. Some exercises include defining what success is; who is successful; goals to achieve; what it would take to achieve certain goals; etc. I highly recommend this book to people who do not think they are worthy of success or the good things in life.

A good book about overcoming self-defeating behavior

Sheri O. Zampelli's `From Sabotage to Success' is a good casework about overcoming self-defeating behavior. In this book, Ms Zampelli guides us through to identify, intercept, and overcome the self-defeating behaviors that impede our growth, development and success. The book explains in a clear and precise way how to identify, manage and overcome self-defeating behaviors within each of us. Above all, it explains how we can learn new skills, including positive self-talk, visualization, goal setting, risks taking, dealing with setbacks and manage them for positive outcomes. It contains many real-life examples, exercises including worksheets, and action plans.Sheri is a modern pathfinder of exploring the power within each of us. She clearly explains how to overcome the obstacles within us preventing success. If you ever felt depressed about your own inabilities and met obstacles preventing the way to success, then this book is just for you! Just read it. You will find the way!