Lots of people have asked me what exactly I do as a coach. The best answer is, a coach is someone who helps you to figure out exactly where you want to be or go, what’s holding you back and then helps you get there, one step at a time. You might be thinking ‘Well [...]
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The Power of Self-Coaching
Posted in GreatexBOOKtations on February 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Women’s True Tales of Life Abroad
Posted in GreatexBOOKtations on February 6, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I have to be honest and say that I haven’t actually read Christina Henry De Tessan’s book yet, but it is on my to ‘do list’. I love the idea of reading about other women whose experiences are different to mine, yet their emotions are so similar. The perspectives in this book come from rich [...]
Raising Global Nomads
Posted in GreatexBOOKtations on February 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
So I have just spent the last 18 hours of today working and am now about to catch a plane back to Houston. I knew I wouldn’t have time to do this post properly so I had planned this book report well in advance. Here is a blatant cut and paste from Amazon….. argh….. but [...]
A Portable Identity
Posted in GreatexBOOKtations on February 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Do you ever wonder whether you left your identity at some previous location? I look back on the days when I managed some 40 people at a College of Education in Western Australia before I started moving and I think, ‘Who was that woman and where is she now?’ A Portable Identity (by Bryson and [...]
Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus
Posted in GreatexBOOKtations on February 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
At the risk of repeating myself, I wanted to recommend another book that had a positive effect on me with regard to relationships in the 90s. Maintaining a marriage in the style to which you would like it to remain accustomed, is at best a part-time job. The reality is few of us had any real [...]
A moveable marriage
Posted in GreatexBOOKtations on February 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Robin Pascoe is one of my favorite writers when it comes to expat life. She doesn’t pull any punches and says it just like it is. I have been lucky to meet her a few times and she is a tough woman who has a heart of gold. A Moveable Marriage touches on what can [...]
Remember books?
Posted in GreatexBOOKtations on February 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »
If you are anything like me, you now spend a couple of hours on the internet every day and maybe 20 minutes or so reading a book. It used to be the other way around. The thing is, the internet often overwhelms me and I come away from it feeling less than relaxed. A book [...]
