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The Anacondas in Life —

How to Defeat the Obstacles That Hold You Back from Your Dreams and Your Potential

Get a POSTIVE ATTITUDE and STAY POSITIVE!

"Many of your readers will utilize your creative ideas
to go on to great success and happiness. You tell readers
what they can become, then you tell them how."

— From a note to James R. Ball from
Dr. Norman Vincent Peale,
author of The Power of Postive Thinking

The Anacondas In Life is a little book with a big message that can change your life. It describes a powerful message and approach for living a happier and more successful life.

To achieve your dreams and potential you must learn how to recognize and defeat the negative influences and limitation thinking obstacles that hold you back.

This book describes the 6 Anacondas in Life and explains how to defeat or avoid them so you can attain the joy, success, and happiness that you seek and deserve.

The book describes each Anaconda and how to recognize it and overcome its power. Four overall strategies for living a happy and successful life are also included. Includes plenty of examples, tips, stories, and shorts lists of Dos and Don'ts.

This book will:

• Teach you how to overcome negativity and negative people
• Explain the obstacles that are holding you back from pursuing your dreams and potential
• Teach you how to overcome those obstacles
• Help you appreciate your capacity for greatness
• Inspire you to imagine and pursue big dreams
• Show you how to stay positive
• Motivate you to take charge of your life and become all you

These links are to additional content below.

Book Highlights and Background

Table of Contents

What's in it for You and Your Organization?

What People Say after Learning about The Anacondas in Life

About the Authors

Teach-It-Yourself Resources on the Contents of this Book

The quotes in this column below are from the book, The Anacondas in Life

Book Background and Highlights

Jim Ball identified The Anacondas in Life in his first book, Soar . . . If You Dare. The Anacondas soon became the most popular concept that people wanted to learn more about in Jim's keynotes and in our seminars. Over the years we collected more and more examples and input form people who encountered Anacondas or who learned they were Anacondas themselves.

This book expands on Jim’s original ideas and strategies and provides many more stories and examples of each the 6 types of Anacondas an how they work.

This book goes beyond Jim's original writings and provides specific suggestions and tips for defeating and avoiding each Anaconda type. This book also provides 4 overall strategies for overcoming them and living a successful life.

"Dream Snatchers are dream killers. They are Anacondas that snatch dreams away and crush happiness and hope."

Here is the Book at a Glance

• Short, simple, and easy to read
  
  
• Practical concepts and ideas you can apply immediately
  
  
• Inspires confidence, hope, and a positive attitude
  
  
• Explains the 6 types of Anacondas, what techniques each Anaconda uses to bring you down, and 4 strategies for overcoming these beasts
  
  
• Chock full of examples to help you recognize the Anacondas that are all around you and not just in the South American jungles
  
  
• Contains many tips, techniques, quotes, and short stories to conquer these Anacondas
  
  
• Teaches you how not to be Anaconda to your family, friends, and co-workers
  
  
• Includes bulleted lists of suggested Dos and Don'ts describing what to do and not do to overcome these various species
  
  
• Provides four strategies for overcoming these Anacondas and living a more fulfilling life
  
  
• Provides tips for creating an Anaconda-Free Zone to protect yourself and those you love from being bitten and crushed by these snakes

From The Anacondas in Life:

"The greatest obstacles you face in life are the unseen snakes waiting in the road ready to strike. To achieve success and happiness you must learn how to defeat or avoid them.

"Most people do not realize they are underachieving their potential and passing up dreams they could attain. They have no idea that undetected obstacles are holding them back from what they could become.

"It is impossible to overcome these barriers unless you understand what they are and have some idea how to conquer them. You cannot defeat enemies unless you know you have them."

The Anacondas in Life may be just the book you are looking for if you want to:

• Quit being negative or pessimistic
• Boost your energy, joy, and happiness
• Start being more positive!
• Stamp out negativity in the workplace
• Pursue your dreams
• Get rid of limitation thinking and negative self-talk
• Avoid toxic people that hold you back
• Get beyond limitation thinking

Keep It Simple for Success® books - K.I.S.S. Books

This book is one of the books in our Keep It Simple for Success® series. These books are short, effective tools that provide excellent content and plenty of useful tips and ideas in the forms of specific Dos and Don'ts that people can quickly understand put to work right away.

"The words you think and say are not just words: they are instructions. If you say a limiting phrase often enough, your brain treats that thought as a set of instructions that you use to create your realities."

The Anacondas in Life
Table of Contents

The Anacondas in life describes the invisible and undetected obstacles and negative influences that hold you back from your dreams and potential. This book shares with you the strategies for overcoming negativity in these obstacles so you can achieve a lifetime of success and happiness.

The book describes the six Anacondas that keep most people from achieving their greatness and provides four strategies and many suggested tips and techniques for defeating or avoiding these Anacondas in your personal life, at work, at school or wherever you find yourself.

Table of Contents

The Anacondas in Life

Snake!

The 6 Anacondas in Life

1. Dream Sntachers
   
   
2. Limitation Thinking
   
   
3. Doubt and Despair
   
   
4. Undeservedness
   
   
5. Demotivators
   
   
6. You and Your Own Negative Self-Talk

Strategies for Staying Positive and Defeating the Anacondas

• Create an Anaconda Zone
  
  
• Be a Peddler of Hope
  
  
• Live Defensively
  
  
• Dare to Dream

About the Authors

"A powerful strategy for defeating the Anacondas in Life is to become a Peddler of Hope.

"Hope is the key ingredient for all happiness. You cannot be happy without hope for the next moments in life. When you give someone hope, you give them happiness and a reason for living."

What's In It for You and Your Organization?

The Anacondas in Life contains core principles for being positive and nurturing a positive attitude in others. These concepts provide many benefits to individuals and organizations.

For Individuals: Read this book and apply its principles when you want to:

• Be all you can be can achieve your heart’s desires
• Become motivated to take charge of your life and get out of any ruts you may be in
• Be inspired to dream bigger dreams
• Achieve your full potential
• Maximize your abilities, opportunities, and results
• Get out of a frump and be positive and happy
• Avoid negative people who deflate your enthusiasm and hold you back

For Leaders and Managers: Give this book to your associates and team members when you want to:

• Create a positive can-do atmosphere where everyone works together to succeed
• Overcome a negative environment and nurture a positive culture
• Release the stranglehold on limitation thinking and inspire creative, new ideas
• Instill confidence and a sense of pride among team members
• Motivate your team to go for bigger and better results
• Nurture a positive work environment where people pursue their potential

"You have the potential for greatness. You can achieve and become all you desire. You can begin right now to change your destiny.

"You are a true miracle. Greatness can be yours."

What People Say and Do After Learning about The Anacondas in Life

Here are some examples of what people say after learning about the Anacondas in Life and discovering how to defeat or avoid them to achieve their dreams and potential.

I am going to:

• "Start believing in myself. I learned that if I don’t believe in yourself, no one will overrule me."
  
  
• "Post my Anaconda-Free Zone Poster. I have several people on my team who could use this. It will also help me in dealing with them."
  
  
• "Stop being an Anaconda to others. I see that I can impact others positively."
  
  
• "Start each day with a clean slate and provide my client/teams with enthusiasm and motivation starting today."
  
  
• "Become a mentor to my younger sisters. Rather than criticize them, I am going to encourage them."
  
  
• "Surround myself with the right people within one year."
  
  
• "Be more positive every day and change my attitude for the better."
  
  
• "Stay positive; the glass is half-full. I’m not going to let others bring me down."
  
  
• "Share these Anacondas in Life with my co-workers so we can build a more positive and encouraging environment."
  
  
• "Limit my negative thoughts and comments and replace them with positive comments (beginning immediately).
  
  
• "Take a more positive outlook and approach to life and work."
  
  
• "Address negative issues immediately. Deal with them and not let them get me down.
  
  
• "Be positive and be enthusiastic."
  
  
• "Begin aiming higher for what I want and can achieve."
  
  
• "Be a positive influence to others. I won’t let people get me down."
  
  
• "Take charge of my life. Make every day count."
  
  
• "Give more consideration to my career path."

About the Authors

James R. Ball, Jim to everyone, is president and CEO of The Goals Institute. Jim co-founded The Goals Institute to help businesses and organizations achieve their potential through goal achievement. Jim previously was co-founder and CEO of Venture America, a venture capital firm, and before that he was a Managing Partner at Arthur Andersen. Jim has been an adjunct faculty member at George Mason University and he has provided keynotes and executive seminars for hundreds of organizations.

Jim previously was co-founder and CEO of Venture America, a venture capital firm that helped launch and develop twenty companies, including The Discovery Channel.

Before that, he was a managing partner at Arthur Andersen in charge of an office that served rapid growth technology companies. Jim also was in charge of the training and professional development programs for Andersen's staff associates and managers in the Washington, DC area.

Jim has been an adjunct faculty member at George Mason University where he co-founded GMU’s Entrepreneurial Institute, Inc. Jim has a degree in accounting and is a member of many professional organizations.

Jennifer Kuchta (cook-ta) is Vice President and Publisher of The Goals Institute. Jennifer is an author and co-creator of our learning programs and tools. She oversees customer service, our website, and all aspects of the editing, publishing, and production side of our business. Jennifer previously was in charge of administration at Venture America and before that she was a marketing support specialists for fine arts. Jennifer graduated from Michigan Technological University with a degree in Accounting.

The Goals Institute has many clients in many industries. See the About Us section of the web site of The Goals Institute for an illustrative listing of clients and for comments from clients on programs provided. Jim and Jennifer are the authors of the books below. For more information on these books, please visit our Bookstore.

Books in the Keep It Simple for Success® series

• Professionalism Is for Everyone
• ABCs for Life
• It’s About TIME!
• The Anacondas in Life
• World-Class Customer Service.

Other books:

• GOALS: Wisdom, Insights, and Strategies
• Soar . . . If You Dare
• DNA Leadership through Goal-Driven Management
• The Entrepreneur’s Tool Kit
• 10 Best Tips for Closing the Sale
• 10 Best Tips for Getting a Job (scheduled for 2Q 2009)
  

We have many clients using our Teach-It-Yourself Tools. Some examples are AIG, American Cancer, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Comcast, HCA. Moss Adams, Schneck Medical Center, and Verizon Wireless.

Teach-It-Yourself Resources on the Contents of this Book

The Goals Institute offers Teach-It-Yourself resources and support for organizations that want to deliver a presentation or provide a seminar on the contents of The Anacondas in Life. This material is a core module in our Soar . . .If You Dare program which covers the Anacondas and other related personal growth and achievement principles. We provide Learning Leader facilitators tools, presentation aids, participant handouts and everything else required.

The resources available include a Facilitator's Guide for use in teaching the Soar . . .If You Dare concepts, Participant Guides, a copy of The Anacondas in Life book, Power Point® slides, and many other teaching aids and tools.

Our kits contain everything you need to provide this program in your organization at affordable prices. We even provide telephone consultation to help get you started.

You do not have to attend one of our seminars to be able to teach the seminar to others; our materials are that complete. There is no required instructor certification.

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The Anacondas in Life

How to Defeat the Obstacles That Hold You
Back from Your Dreams and Your Potential

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