16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A good book about overcoming self-defeating behavior, August 11, 2000
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!
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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Stop Hurting and Start Living!, February 18, 2007
This review is from: From Sabotage to Success: How to Overcome Self-Defeating Behavior and Reach Your True Potential (Paperback)
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 to be. This book then, becomes a personal roadmap to freedom.
From Sabotage To Success will be even more effective for those who:
~Have read every self-help book imaginable and still have found themselves stuck in their same old patterns.
~Are interested in changing the habits associated with self defeating behaviors that can keep them from reaching their full potential.
~Want to identify personal roadblocks, bring them to the surface to heal, then move on to claim the success they know is theirs.
The three best things about From Sabotage To Success in my opinion are:
One: Zampelli uses examples, anecdotes and stories from other real life individuals that exemplify the struggles we all face. This helps me identify with the issue at hand, realize I am not alone and that I am not "different" or "crazy" for having the feelings I do. In turn, this helps me to heal and overcome my highest hurdles.
Two: Zampelli fills the book with exercises, thought provoking ideas and tools. Soon after reading, I found myself excited about my life again. Through identifying and removing ways I stand in my own way through negative thinking - I've learned to identify when I'm "unhealthy." Free from negativity, I'm liberated to be excited about my life and the possibilities it holds for me.
Three: Zampelli, as customary, presents all of her work in a "been there done that" format. It's hard hitting as her story is a deep and painful one. Yet, this accessibility is exactly what makes Zampelli's books worth reading and applying - she speaks from her own passion to overcome obstacles, and her passion to succeed becomes contagious.
A Final Note: Just like her other work - this is not a book you will finish, close, then never look at again. It is a reference book you can consult over and over. As usual, I always choose to take the broad brush stroke first, then walk back through slowly - taking each exercise one at a time. Zampelli has penned another winner here - and she takes you right along with her.
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