Resource Materials
In my role as Career, Life, and Retirement Coach I have explored many sources of information and routinely recommend resources to my clients. Following are several books that are mainstays in my coaching practice. I have have linked them directly to Amazon to make it convenient for you to order directly from this page. Just click on the title of any book(s) that interest you and you will be taken directly to a detailed description, including how other readers rated the book.
Career Coaching Recommended Books:
The Pathfinder: How to Choose or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success by Nicholas Lore
Getting Unstuck: How Dead Ends Become New Paths by Timothy Butler
In Search of the Perfect Job by Clyde C. Lowstuter
The Advice of a Headhunter: How to Land the Perfect Job in Today's Competitive Job Market by Don Hite
Getting Promoted: Real Strategies For Advancing Your Career by Harry E. Chambers
Escape from Corporate America: A Practical Guide to Creating the Career of Your Dreams by Pamela Skillings
Integrative Life Planning: Critical Tasks for Career Development and Changing Life Patterns by L. Sunny Hansen
Life Enrichment Recommended Books:
The Flow: 40 Days to Total Life Transformationby Marilee G. Adams and Marshall Goldsmith (Paperback - May 2004)
Who Are You Really, and What Do You Want?
The Renaissance Soul: Life Design for People with Too Many Passions to Pick Just One by Margaret Lobenstine
Life Is Not Work, Work Is Not Life: Simple Reminders for Finding Balance in a 24/7 World (Paperback) by Robert K. Johnston & J. Walker Smith
Change Your Questions, Change Your Life: 7 Powerful Tools for Life and Work by Marilee G. Adams and Marshall Goldsmith (Paperback - May 2004
On the Fly Guide to...Balancing Work and Life (On-the-Fly Guide) by Bill Butterworth
What to Say When you Talk To Yourself
Retirement or "Re-Wirement" Recommended Books:
How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free: Retirement Wisdom That You Won't Get from Your Financial Advisor
What Color Is Your Parachute? for Retirement, Second Edition: Planning a Prosperous, Healthy, and Happy Future
Beyond Work: How Accomplished People Retire Successfully (GOLD medal 2009 Axiom Award as the year's best retirement book)
Don't Retire,REWIRE!, 2nd Edition
Project Renewment: The First Retirement Model for Career Women
The Work Less, Live More Workbook: Get Ready for Semi-Retirement (with CD-Rom)
Smart Women Don't Retire -- They Break Free: From Working Full-Time to Living Full-Time by The Transition Network, Gail Rentsch, and Lynn Sherr