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

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...Zampelli helps us identify our self-defeating thoughts and behaviors and helps us design an action plan for change...thoroughly realistic and fortifying book. -- Audrey Delamartre,Steps for Recovery magazine, December 1999 --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Author Sheri O. Zampelli knows how it feels to move From Sabotage to Success. Over the years she has moved from a place of despair and lack of information to one of empowerment and success. In this book, she has compiled the strategies thousands have used to overcome self-defeating behavior.

Sheri O. Zampelli has taught workshops since 1992. Throughout the book she provides real-life examples of persons dealing with various self-defeating behaviors. Each chapter ends with a task list and action plan including worksheets, journal ideas, charts, and graphs to help readers apply success principles to their daily lives. Author Bio: Sheri Zampelli has been leading workshops on overcoming self-sabotage since 1992. She holds a BachelorÂ’s Degree in Psychology and MasterÂ’s Degree in Counseling.

Sheri has helped thousands of people overcome self-defeating behaviors. Her work inspires hope as she shares the tools and techniques that enabled her to overcome a life of many obstacles including drug addiction, homelessness and compulsive overeating.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 200 pages
• Publisher: Backinprint.com (November 11, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0595254373
• ISBN-13: 978-0595254378
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.2 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #97,647 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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26 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Time Tested Techniques To Help You Overcome Self-Sabotage, May 9, 2001

By	Sheri O. Zampelli "Author & Podcaster" (LA, CA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: From Sabotage to Success: How to Overcome Self-Defeating Behavior and Reach Your True Potential (Paperback)

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.

14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A good book about overcoming self-defeating behavior, August 11, 2000

By	Sunil Govinnage (PERTH Australia) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: From Sabotage to Success: How to Overcome Self-Defeating Behavior and Reach Your True Potential (Paperback)

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!

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding, March 29, 2002

By	Cathy Garger (Columbia, MD USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: From Sabotage to Success: How to Overcome Self-Defeating Behavior and Reach Your True Potential (Paperback)

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 Garger
Personal Coach