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Turn Your Dreams and Wants into Achievable SMART Goals!

A comprehensive manual of effective Goal-Setting for entrepreneurs, managers, and parents

by Anna Stevens

© 2013 Anna Stevens and EQ for Success, LLC

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ISBN-13: 978-0615773674 ISBN-10: 0615773672 LCCN: 2013905025

© 2013 Anna Stevens and EQ for Success, LLC

In the effort to support abused women and children and to raise aware-ness of domestic violence as well as to contribute funds, Anna Stevens donates one percent of all book sales to Women’s Resource Center to End Domestic Violence. You, too, can get involved, make a difference, and change someone’s life. Visit www.wrcdv.org

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This book is dedicated to my mother, Lyudmila, who - I now finally know - loves me, and whom I love, too.

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Praise for the “SMART Goals Book” by Anna Stevens

Anna’s approach is succinct and to the point. I manage a small diverse group of individuals scattered across an entire GA state, and their time is at a premium. I plan to introduce them to Anna’s book and methods of developing SMART goals as a way to make the most of their time while doing their primary job and advancing their position and value to the company.- Bill Markesteyn, Field Services Manager, Hewlett-Packard Company

This book is great for anyone who is not afraid to make their dreams come true, regardless of where they are in personal or professional life. Anna Stevens openly shares the recipes for success through valuable goal-setting principles, which derive from her personal experiences. This book is a must read for any up and coming entrepreneur who is just starting out. It is also a valuable resource for all professionals seek-ing to achieve their dreams.- Jason J. Oliver, Human Resources Director, AT&T Mobility

Anna has taken a key business and personal concept, goal-setting, and has provided an action-oriented tool that individuals can actually use each and every day at work and at home. Great job!!!- Bernadette Boas, Coach, Author, Speaker, Radio Personality, Cre-ator of the movement Shedding the Bitch®

This chic has got it GOing! Not letting the hand she was dealt keep her dreams from becoming reality, Anna took control of her life’s journey and now challenges you by asking “are you in control of your life’s journey or do you let life’s circumstances control you?” Packed with essential keys, motivational guidance and action ori-ented, step-by-step game plans, The SMART goals book is a must have for every ‘go get ‘em’ entrepreneur’s library.- Coach Jenn Lee, Motivational Speaker, Small Business Strategist, Corporate Trainer and Life Coach, Coach Jenn Lee

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Anna was a star MBA student in my class, but in SMART Goals Book, she reverses roles and becomes the teacher. Her easy-to-follow roadmap to success in the face of seemingly hopeless personal and pro-fessional dilemmas are motivational, inspirational, and universal for all.- Perry Binder, J.D., Legal studies professor, Author of 99 Motivators for College Success

This book is like a conversation with a coach. I found the personal anecdotes weaved around other people’s stories uplifting. Most of all, this book offers common sense exercises that, if done periodically, will keep our goals in clear sight. Great job, Anna!- Rita Izaguirre, Former Senior Vice President of Talent Acquisition, Diversity and Compliance for SunTrust Banks Inc., Principal, IDEIAS

Few people have Anna’s outlook on life, and even fewer have the ability to get others to see things in a positive and practical way. Anna is an amazing woman with positive energy and a genuine desire to help people attain their life-goals, sharing her proven strategies that one can apply in life and in business. Anna is a powerful example of a woman’s capacity for resilience. This book is very touching and will make one stand up and say “Yes, I can”. It is not only a manual or a “how-to” book, but it is more of a “how-I-did-it” book, which will in-spire you as it did me. Go, Anna!- Laurie Sossa, President, Southern Barter Club and Eco-Trade Global

I met Anna when she participated in volunteer training for the Women’s Resource Center to End Domestic Violence. She introduced herself during a break and offered to help in any way she could. Over the years, Anna has helped in countless ways. Perhaps most impor-tantly, she has helped as a powerful example for other survivors. Many are surprised when they hear how quickly Anna learned English or how recently she was in a shelter herself. Anna is a reminder of what is possible when accountability and commitment drive realistic goals. Now with her book, Anna shares her own strategies for setting goals. Readers will learn how to overcome obstacles, avoid self-doubt, and develop as well as accomplish realistic goals. Read her book today for relatable examples and easy-to-use ideas for planning and achieving

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success in any aspect of your life.- Barbara Gibson, Safehouse Director, Women’s Resource Center to End Domestic Violence

Anna! Thank you, thank you, thank you for helping me simplify my life by using SMART goals! I’m no stranger to setting goals, but fall short at times due to the everyday hustle and bustle of life. Your book did a great job at explaining how the fine details help make the goal more ob-tainable and reachable. As a working single parent of a very busy young lady, I sometimes get my goals put on the back burner. I feel that Turn Your Dreams and Wants into Achievable SMART Goals! will not only help me professionally, but also as a parent. After reading your book, my daughter and I both have set some goals and the detailed steps on how we wish to achieve them. We have also decided to write five things each evening that we are thankful for. Thanks so much for sharing your life experiences and letting us know that despite what circumstances you deal in life with, good or bad, you can always come out a winner!- Lynn Lopes, Super Mom, Program Manager, Central Atlanta Prog-ress

I am a mother of five children and found Anna’s book to be so help-ful and inspiring! Since I have read Anna’s book, my children and I are working on our own mission statement that will help us reach our personal and family goals. It is a must-read!- Lorynn Hollie, Mother of Five

Turn Your Dreams and Wants into Achievable SMART Goals! isn’t just about setting goals; it’s about reaching them. Reaching amazing goals may seem like magic or luck to some people, but it is a skill that can be developed. This book is more than a riveting story of a woman’s triumph over adversity. It’s a practical toolkit for apply-ing Anna Stevens’ hard-won insights on planning and achievement to your own personal or business challenges.- Joe M. Turner, America’s Chief Impossibility Officer, Speaker, En-tertainer, Author of High JOEltage – 101 JOElts for Becoming Amaz-ingly Effective, Turner Magic Entertainment

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Why do I love Anna Stevens and her new SMART goals Book? It could be because of our mutual love for Frank Sinatra and how we each studied his purposeful craft. It could also be because Anna epitomizes my life’s work of freeing struggling men, women, and youth from the curse of homelessness. And yet, after reading SMART goals Book, I am convinced it is because Anna courageously forged her every dream-achieving step, from the deepest part of her character, and without the many resources and lifelines we often take for granted. By knitting together her remark-able journey with actionable insight, Anna Stevens has provided us with a manual for quickly setting and achieving goals, while also helping us rewrite our own “life scripts” so they no longer dissuade or derail us.- Tiger Todd, Founder, CEO and Chief Change Strategist, Heroes In-corporated

In my opinion, Anna Stevens’ book hopes to provide assistance on how to organize your career-goals and your life in general. Many people forget to first balance all aspects of life, and then career success will naturally follow.- Solange Warner, Founder, World Chamber of Commerce

Anna’s book is relevant to every person who reads it - business professionals, entrepreneurs, parents, managers, students, and the list goes on! Her directions and worksheets are simple yet impactful. She provides an easy system for anyone to find out who they really are. Anna’s book provides intimate details about her life, making you feel as though she is sitting in the room with you and helping you through every step. Her story is powerful and inspiring.- Logan Hooks, Director of Communication, RAISE Global Services

A highly motivating, simple, clear, logical system, which helps with self-analysis and self-development. Deep analysis of the self-develop-ment process will help the reader achieve measurable goals in no time. Personal stories reveal different angles of life and solutions to it. I strong-ly recommend this book, especially for families with children of any age. Inspirational, empowering and strong!!! Easy and enjoyable to read.- Lilia Postolachi, Director of Membership and International Service, World Trade Center

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Anna’s book is full of very practical information, wonderful stories, and first-hand knowledge. Anna walks us through how to properly set and achieve goals and how to avoid the traps that hold us back. I recommend it for anyone who is struggling to accomplish all of those things they want to accomplish.- Brent Darnell, International Best-Selling Author of The People-Profit Connection, Brent Darnell International

As author Anna Stevens points out in her new book, Turn Your Dreams and Wants Into Achievable SMART Goals, the idea of SMART goals has been around for decades. However, I have never seen anyone apply the process with such relevance to so many areas of life. Anna’s personal application of the lessons she teaches the reader is, perhaps, the most inspirational reason to follow her lead. I thought at first that there would be little new that I would learn from Anna’s book, but find myself now studying how to apply her directions to more than one neglected dream and want of my own. Thanks to Anna Stevens for her down-to-earth approach and incredible inspiration!- Dr. Don Osborne, Author of The Probable Future: You Can Predict it & You Can Change it, Think Then Lead

Turn Your Dreams and Wants into Achievable SMART Goals! is a must-read! Anna provides practical information in a format that is easy to follow. Her willingness to share her personal and professional journeys is truly inspirational and provides solid evidence that her methods truly work. This is a book that will remain in my toolbox for many years to come. I’m already making a list of the people who will be getting it as a gift!- Bambi S. Bellflowers, MSHRM, SPHR, Human Resources Profes-sional

Anna has written a very provocative and hard-hitting book that tells us exactly what we need to do if we want to succeed in any aspect of our life. The challenge for all of us is whether or not we are willing to put in the effort, as described in the book, to achieve our goals. The fear of failure is what prevents us from being specific about our goals, which is what SMART goals concept requires.- S. Jeffrey Ackerman, M.D., Senior Healthcare Executive

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I congratulate Anna Stevens for bringing SMART goals system to a new level of understanding. I have used SMART goals for years, and Anna has provided a rich resource for all of us. Her practical and us-er-friendly SMART guidelines will help countless people to get better control of their life-problems. I cannot think of a more helpful book for people who want to achieve greatness in their personal and profes-sional life.- Donald Booz, Executive Coach, Former District Executive Minister at Brethren Disaster Ministries

The SMART goals Book is absolutely wonderful for those wanting to achieve optimal success. Anna gives you easy ways to set goals and achieve them. This step-by-step guide allows you to measure your achievements along the way. It’s definitely the perfect guide in achieving your dreams. As an author, coach and speaker, Anna Stevens has proven that she has the key to success!- Felicia Phillips, Sustainability Guru, Publisher, H3O Eco Magazine

You may ask yourself: “What do I need with another goal setting book?” That is the wrong question to ask in relationship to Anna Ste-vens’ book, Turn Your Dreams and Wants into Achievable SMART Goals! You should be asking yourself: “How quickly can I get my copy, start reading, and start changing my life?” and “Why didn’t I have this book years ago?” This book may not have hit the book store shelves when you felt that you needed it years ago, but that is because it was being orchestrated by Anna’s experiences. Anna has the unbelievable gift of taking her personal experiences and the experiences of others and compiling them into a thoughtful, well-choreographed plan of ac-tion to enable you to lead the life you desire, to the tune of your own music. When Anna says “The books is full of practical and motivation-al content and includes both theory and examples or relevant experi-ences,” she does not under-deliver. I especially like her use of practical examples from her life and that of others to demonstrate her points and to guide you through the process. It is easy to quote the experts, the super-achievers. However, Anna has been able to demonstrate her points with the “living reality”: real-life examples. In addition, Anna does not lead you to believe that your life-long negative scripts are not

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there. In fact, she acknowledges the negative voice that may be sound-ing off in your head and gives you the tools to dim and silence that darker side which impedes your success and happiness. Although it is hard to pinpoint one thing in Anna’s SMART goals Book that was the most helpful to me, one of my favorite and most powerful exercises was the development of my own personal mission statement. This has enabled me to look at the big picture and set goals using my resources that supported my own personal mission and not that someone else. Anna has shared with the world her system so that we can each achieve our greatest potential. It is one of the greatest gifts you will ever receive, and for that I am eternally grateful.- BevAnn Bonds, Entrepreneur, SMART Goals Enthusiast, Business Support Solutions

I’ve had the pleasure of personally knowing Anna for some time now. Seeing her publish a masterpiece such as this is not shocking. Turn Your Dreams and Wants into Achievable SMART Goals! captured every essence of what is needed in today’s world. The personalized ap-proach to writing of this book brings a sense of being in a one-on-one conversation with Anna. Opening the pages of this book will change your life! Given the user-friendly templates and step-by-step guidance, putting the book down will be extremely difficult. Anna refused to let the challenges of life hold her back. Today, she shares with the world how she did it. Turn Your Dreams and Wants into Achievable SMART Goals! is a timely and resourceful book that every person who desires to change their life must have. Get your highlighters, notebooks and pens out, because things are about to shift! - Natasha Davis-Bowen, RN-BSN, MBA-M, Author, Speaker, Train-er, Radio and Television Host, CEO and Senior Business & Marketing Strategist, Visionary People LLC

With so many books previously written about goal-setting, when Anna asked for feedback on hers, frankly I was looking for something “differ-ent”. I was not disappointed. This book is a powerhouse of strategies, re-flections, and quotes. Regardless of where someone is in their life, they can significantly benefit both personally and professionally. One unique feature is Anna’s sharing of rich content followed by her personal experi-

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ences. This is definitely a must-read for anyone wanting to significantly step up their game. Eloquently written, Anna’s book is a masterpiece.- Bonnie Ross Parker, America’s Connection Diva, The Joy of Con-necting

I wanted to make sure you realize that you are making a difference in the world. Reading your book helped me break through and there was almost a physical sensation as if a weight was lifted from my shoul-ders. It was as if my brain had rebooted and came back online func-tioning at 100%. Thanks! Our pasts are very different but we both have had to overcome daunting obstacles and personal challenges to reach where we are today. We will have to sit down some evening with a glass of wine and I’ll tell you some of my experiences. Thanks again for help-ing me break through. I’ll be re-reading it over the next few days and working on updating my goals.- Don Cross, DC, FIAMA, FABDA

Anna Stevens’ book is so much more than a stuffy book explain-ing how to correctly complete each letter of the acronym. Anna writes with passion as she convinces us that if she can do it, so can we! Anna provides not only motivation, but also a step-by-step method of setting and achieving seemingly impossible goals. This book will definitely go in my consulting toolkit!- Cindy Jacoby, Chief Engagement Officer, BizHelp Consulting

As a passionate motivational speaker and the daughter of a longtime community activist, I have instilled in me to follow the biblical instruc-tion to be “our brothers’ and sisters’ keeper.” So, through my philoso-phy of “Each one who reaches one, that agrees to teach one, who then empowers and encourages one, who then lifts one...” we become part of the group of many that started with the awesome power of one. That is what Anna Stevens has done with this book! I pride myself on being innovative and creative in my own approach to issues and goal-setting, but Anna has surpassed me in my methods! This book should be the “standard in classroom teaching” in the minds of our children, starting in middle school. Outstanding job, Anna!- Stacy Witherspoon, Managing Partner, SOTH LLC

Without a question, Anna is one of the most dynamic women I’ve en-countered. I admire greatly her determination and perseverance to over-come all of the hardships she has faced in life in order to succeed. I have witnessed first hand that Anna is quite gifted at being able to discern clear paths for long term vision and direction. She also has a keen ability to hone in on the action steps to facilitate bringing the vision to the fore-front to become a reality. I personally enjoyed the exercises she provides in her book that allow people to get a lock in on interacting with dreams which they may have been holding at arms length. No matter what stage you are at in the pursuit of your goals, this book will provide insight and practical tools to move you closer to achieving them.- Ashley Feagin, Director of Corporate Development, RAISE Global Services

In her own unique style demonstrating passion and grace under pressure, Anna Stevens has written her story in a compelling and in-spirational way that will appeal to anyone wanting to improve their life for the better. Anna’s accomplishments are testament to her own goal-setting process. If you have goals you want to achieve, use Anna’s methods to increase your own efficiency and effectiveness.- David Cory, M.A., President, The Emotional Intelligence Training Company Inc.

Upon reading the book, my aha-moment was that you wrote the book that I had been wanting to write. Your SMART goals Book is definitely for me and other entrepreneurs, managers, and parents who desire to set specific, measurable, action-oriented, realistic, and time-bound goals and achieve them. Your personal experiences were a great way to show how SMART goals were used in action to help you over-come numerous obstacles. I enjoyed the exercises, tips and, of course, your personal experience anecdotes. I am so pleased to have been touched by your story! May you be blessed with loads of love, happi-ness and continued success!- Kevin Mills, Marketing Manager, Mills And Associates Inc.

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around achieving a set of specific goals for your life. I especially enjoyed seeing Anna integrate her personal story as examples of how someone can overcome adversity, come with nothing, and through a series of strategies meet success levels most people only dream about. Her story is inspiring and shows how through perseverance and a systematic ap-proach many achievements are possible. One part I found fascinating was the chapter on applying her principles to children. In today’s so-ciety, where children are pampered and tied to parents through con-stant contact, her suggestions and tools to create independence and responsibility in children are right on target. People who embrace this strategy will no doubt see their young children grow up strong and confident. Congratulations, Anna, on a job well done.- Carol McKown, Chief Solutions Officer, RAISE Global Services

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Acknowledgements

This book is about how to set and achieve goals that guarantee success. The tech-niques, strategies, systems, and solutions I share here were created and tested in my own personal experience through overcoming very significant and often times tragic challenges on my own personal journey.

When you learn the way I have, you have many people to thank for many great things. I would like to say a word of appreciation to the director of Kursk Higher Teacher’s Training School, where during 1998-2002 I worked on obtaining my El-ementary School Teacher Certificate. She believed in me and she gave me my first ticket to the life I dreamed of.

A special thank-you is going to all my professors at The State All-Russian Finan-cial and Economical Institute, where during 2002-2008 I worked on my B.B.A. in Management. They challenged me to grow and believed in me so much that I always cared to do my best to justify their faith in me.

My gratitude extends to the Women’s Resource Center to End Domestic Violence, Atlanta Legal Aid Society, Catholic Charities’ Immigration Legal Services, Rachel Gedrich, Greg Goodwin, Elena Bowser, Adrienne Fagler, Tricia Siaso, Oleg Chernov, Yaslynn Mack, and Rick Craddock for giving me a hand when I was going through many difficulties trying to survive after my escape from domestic violence. They are the reason why I am still here, in this country, stronger than ever and successful as they always believed I could be. Without them this book would have been impossible.

I would like to express my appreciation to those who contributed to the produc-tion of this book; particularly Alvin C. Miles for writing the thoughtful Foreword and encouraging me, W. Frank Blount for creating a statement of support that is now published on the cover of the book, Katharine Pike for producing outstanding content for the About the Author section, as well as Logan Hooks and Stacy Wither-spoon for helping with edits.

I wish to sincerely thank my mother who after so many years of difficulties in the relationship with me has found courage and strength to reconnect again, and who shed a great deal of so needed light on many questions I had about what had actually happened between the two of us in this life. What had always appeared to be pain-ful and terrifying, now, thanks to her, is more understandable and justifiable. I have recently realized that my mother does actually love me, and I do love her, too. My heart is peaceful now.

Last but not least, my gratitude is endless and I have no right words to express it when it comes to my loving husband, Dr. Philip Day, who magically found me on Facebook and surrounded me with tender love, strong respect, ardent support, and unlimited encouragement - exactly what I always wanted and needed. I love you, Philip!

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ContentsForeword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18Introduction: Homeless, Hopeless, and Helpless . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19The Concepts of Accountability and Commitment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28Five Critical Exercises to Help You Figure Out What You Really Want . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32Look at the Big Picture of Your Life Overall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38A Special Mindset for Designing Your SMART Goals . . . . . . . . . . . .41Creating Your Ten Year Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45The What, the Why, and the How of SMART Goals . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48Importance of Both Substance and Process of SMART Goals . . . . . .52The SMART Goals Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55When Self-Doubt and Negative Self-Talk Get in the Way . . . . . . . . .59An Accountability Partner as a Source of Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69Self-Accountability, Self-Discipline, and Self-Leadership . . . . . . . . .76Common Sense and Flexibility with SMART Goals . . . . . . . . . . . . .78SMART Goals for Entrepreneurs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .83SMART Goals for Managers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .96SMART Goals for Parents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .99How to Choose a Measure of Your Progress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104How and When I used My Comprehensive SMART Goals System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106Next Steps for You After Reading This Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114Thirty-Five Great Quotes to Get You Motivated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 About the Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120Connect with the Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

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Foreword

When I was invited to write the foreword for Turn Your Dreams and Wants Into Achievable SMART Goals!, I reflected on my thirty-one year career in telecommunications. Over that span, I’ve mentored and coached many smart people who initially didn’t have concrete goals or a plan for their achieve-ment. I’ve transitioned my career to academia and over the past several years, I’ve mentored, coached and interviewed hundreds of mid-career professionals who desire to earn an MBA to move forward in their personal and profession-al lives. Many of them have a good idea of their goals and a path forward, but the majority are uncertain. Since MBA graduates represent a small percentage of the general population in America, one can assume there are millions more people with uncertainty about their goals and future. I accepted the invitation to encourage you to read this book because I know it fills a vital need!

Anna Stevens has written this book to help fill the void millions of people feel about their future and how to manifest it. She’s qualified to write this book because she’s used the power of its principles to lift herself from home-lessness to happiness; from a battered wife to a happy wife; from joblessness to entrepreneurship, social activist for change and now - successful author! What Anna has done here is to put together a thoughtful, personal, and thor-ough guide to help you take control of your existence by empowering your fu-ture. She does so in a way that you would expect from a person who practices what she preaches; by letting you into her past and the dramatic experiences that shaped her beliefs about the abundance life has to offer.

Empowering people to realize they determine the outcome of their own lives is not always easy. I’ve personally benefitted from these principles as I’ve transitioned to my dream career and I continue to manifest the life I envi-sion, so recommending this book is very easy. If digested, this comprehensive manual offers entrepreneurs, managers and parents the opportunity to meet their responsibility to be effective leaders in both their personal and profes-sional lives.

If your goal is to thrive and not just survive – it’s time to dream again because you’re holding a powerful tool to help you convert those dreams and wants into achievable SMART goals!

-Alvin C. Miles, Director, Graduate Faculty, Host of Global Leader Radio!™, Executive MBA Programs, Kennesaw State University

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About the Author

What keeps me going is goals.- Muhammad Ali

Anna Stevens is the emotional intelligence maven and the founder of EQ for Success, LLC - an Atlanta-based consulting, training, and coaching company, where she helps people understand how emotions affect their behaviors, actions, relationships, productivity, and success. A Russia native, Anna lives and works in the United States. Using her seventeen years of international experience in personal development, Anna helps professionals reach their highest potential.

Talented and ambitiousMany find it remarkable that Anna taught herself to speak and write in English in less than 1.5 years. Others are amazed with Anna’s extraor-dinary educational background - she graduated from a teaching school with a teacher’s certificate, business school with a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, and law school with a Juris Doctor degree - all with high honors. She will soon be adding an MBA from Georgia State University, J. Mack Robinson College of Business to the strong list of her credentials; and she accomplishes that while successfully running her own business as a solopreneur and being married with two stepchildren. Perhaps, you find Anna’s life remarkable now, but it wasn’t always this way...

Homeless, hopeless, and helplessJust a few short years ago, Anna became a victim of domestic vio-lence and was living in one of Atlanta’s shelters for abused women and children. Confused, frightened, and not speaking one word of Eng-lish, Anna was homeless, hopeless, and helpless in a foreign coun-try. She had no social connections, no family within 5,000 miles, was sick and at the very edge of her strength.

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From a victim to a victorHaving realized that a victim mentality wasn’t a good fit for her, Anna used her own know-how of mind power and emotional in-telligence to restore herself and rebuild her life. Starting from zero, she has chosen a proactive approach to solving her numerous problems. Despite her educational credentials and great professional experience, she set out to make a living cleaning houses and being a dog nanny while learning English, making connections, and volunteering at a lo-cal courthouse, where she was within a short time hired to work. Ap-plying the tools she developed over the years, Anna overcame signifi-cant obstacles she had been forced to face and became free, successful, and happy. With her outstanding self-coaching program, Anna turned herself from a victim to a victor!

Happily-ever-afterToday, Anna uses her proven strategies for success to help business

Anna with her husband and their dog.March of 2013.

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professionals elevate their performance and boost their bottom-line. Since she established her own small consulting company, Anna has helped many people, appeared on TV, multiple radio programs and magazines, and presented for a variety of audiences, sharing her in-sightful solutions to help others build success, happiness, and wellness.

Anna is married to a GA chiropractor Dr. Philip Day, has two steps-ons, Philip and Alan, and a dog name Bruno, whom she rescued from an animal shelter. In her spare time, Anna enjoys networking in the Atlanta’s business community, ice-skating with her stepchildren, swim-ming, exercising, biking, cooking, hiking, traveling, and volunteering at Women’s Resource Center to End Domestic Violence to support abused women and children.

- Katharine Pike, Natural Weight Loss Expert, Certified Coach and Speaker, Lighter Body Solution

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Connect with the Author For consulting opportunities, media inquiries, interviews, speaking engagements, workshops, or to schedule your personal one-on-one coaching session with Anna Stevens, use the following information to contact her.

EQ for Success, LLC

P.O. Box 20424 , Atlanta, Georgia 30325

Email: [email protected]

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