Auckland Career Coach & Life Coach, Allison Fisher Coaching Auckland New Zealand

Recommended Reading

	Life Makeovers: 52 Practical & Inspiring Ways to Improve Your Life One Week at a Time By Cheryl Richardson Now in paperback, the "New York Times bestseller--featuring a powerful program that shows you how to reclaim your life one week at a time. Cheryl Richardson, the bestselling author of "Take Time for Your Life, known to millions for her "Lifestyle Makeover" series on "The Oprah Winfrey Show," recognizes firsthand how tough it can be to juggle the daily demands of living in a fast-paced world, and how easily you can become disconnected from your true self and what makes you happy.

	Worth Dying For (Jack Reacher Novel) By Lee Child A crime detective novel with good old Jack Reacher as the down and out detective making good. Some good twists and angles. An excellent holiday light read. - Allison Has Jack Reacher finally met his match? 61 Hours ended with Reacher trapped in a desperate situation from which escape seemed impossible. Even for him. Was that really the end of the road for the maverick loner?

	My Life So Far by Jane Fonda "There are always regrets in life, among them things we've done that we wish we could take back and erase. I have significant ones that will haunt me forever and which I hope I have been brave enough to confront in this book." I was blown away by Jane’s honesty and openness and the amazing life she has had to date. Her journey of self discovery and self development is very interesting. She is an activist who has stood up for her beliefs and used her wealth to make a difference in the world. An inspiring read. - Allison

	Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything by Geneen Roth Roth has taken the sum total of her experience and combined it with spirituality and psychology to explain women's true hunger. Roth's approach to eating is that it is the same as any addiction - an activity to avoid feeling emotions. This book is loaded with insights about how we use food to manage our feelings rather than deal with the things that are really happening. Roth encourages us to pay attention to what we truly need - which cannot be found in the fridge or a supermarket. Ultimately she reveals how our relationship with food is the doorway to freedom and what we most want. - Allison

	Eat That Frog: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time by Brian Tracey The legendary Eat That Frog (more than 450,000 copies sold and translated into 23 languages) provides the 21 most effective methods for conquering procrastination and accomplishing more. This new edition is revised and updated throughout, and includes brand new information on how to keep technology from dominating our time.

	The Career Maze: Guiding Your Children Towards a Successful Future by Heather Carpenter Fantastic read for parents who want to know how to guide their teenagers through the maze of career choices - Allison Every year thousands of young people become lost in the career maze and swamped in information overload. This results in career choices made for the wrong reasons, poor choices of training or study, and high rates of dropping out, failure and confusion at the time when young people should be inspired and motivated about the future.

	Your 21st Century Career: New Paths to Personal Success By Heather Carpenter With valuable insights and self-assessment strategies, Heather Carpenter provides the practical framework necessary to achieve your best career, at any age - Allison In this rapidly changing world of shifting economic markets, workers today are required to be flexible, creative and innovative in order to survive. This book provides valuable new insights and the practical framework to identify your best career for the workplace of the 21st century.

	Lighten Up: A New Healthier Way to Cook By Jill Dupleix and Petrina Tinslay "Lighten Up" is a refreshing new approach to modern healthy eating. It is not a diet book, but it is a book for all food lovers who believe good food can be good for you. Containing over 100 recipes, there are chapters on Sustaining Breakfasts, Scrumptious Salads, Nourishing Soups, Spicy Food, 'Veggo' Food, Fast Food that's good for you, Slow Food that cooks itself, Easy Food, Pure Steamy Food and Fruity Food to round off a meal, plus a selection of dishes for special occasions.

	Parent/Teen Breakthrough: The Relationship Approach (Plume) By Charles Foster and Mira Kirshenbaum A perceptive and helpful guide to building a respectful, loving, and effective relationship between parent and teen or pre-teen. With many sample dialogues and practical, concrete suggestions, the authors show how parents can offer help and guidance that a teenager will accept, and maintain a loving, non-combative relationship.

	Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything By Elizabeth Gilbert I know many of you have already read the book Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything. I’ve only just read it and now it’s my turn to rave about this book. For those of you who haven’t read it, it is a true story of Elizabeth’s climb out of a messy divorce and her trips to Italy, Bali and an Ashram in India to, in summary, find herself. The wonder of this book is that it is written in a delightful style which is honest, easy to read but very thought provoking. What has me raving is the many life gems within it, written in a sensible practical and easy to understand way. Today I will share with you from her book Eat Pray Love, her thoughts on the balance between destiny and action. Do we just let life happen and take the attitude that it’s all meant to be or should we “make” things happen, get out there and go do it?

	Committed: A Sceptic Makes Peace with Marriage By Elizabeth Gilbert Gilbert's memoir - destined to become a cherished handbook for any thinking person hovering on the verge of marriage - is ultimately a clear-eyed celebration of love, with all the complexity and consequence that real love, in the real world, actually entails.

	The Self-esteem Workbook by Glenn R. Schiraldi The Self-Esteem Workbook shows that self-esteem can be significantly improved through the use of self-help materials. Psychologist and health educator Glenn Schiraldi has shaped these tested resources into a comprehensive, self-directed program that guides readers through twenty essential skill-building activities, each focused on developing a crucial component of healthy self-esteem.

	The Gabriel Method: the Revolutionary Diet-free Way to Totally Transform Your Body By Jon Gabriel In addition to telling Jon's own story of his amazing transformation, the book reveals why diets don't work and explains a truly unique and revolutionary diet-free way to lose weight. It's based on the fact that your body has an internal logic that determines how fat or thin you will be at any given time. The way to lose weight is not to struggle or to force yourself to lose weight but to understand this internal logic and work with it so that your body wants to be thinner.

	Business Wise: A Practical Guide to Success in Business by Fred Stewart I heard Fred speak recently and was very impressed by the research he had done for his book and his hands on knowledge of the NZ economy. He has re-engineered many businesses and this book provides advice to business owners and operators on how to run a business well and where extra effort can pay off. Written in easy every day language.

	The Money or Your Life: Finding Fulfilling Work in the New Millennium By John Clark For many people the career path proves to be a road to hell. Even those who have risen to the heights in their careers often feel frustrated, trapped, bored or isolated, although they may continue to present to the world an image of contented success. Their careers are an economic pursuit that offer external rewards like money and status, but little enjoyment or inner fulfilment. Such career angst is rife throughout the world of managers and professionals.But it doesn't have to be like this. Work and joy can - indeed should - go hand in hand.

	I Could Do Anything If Only I Knew What it Was by Barbara Sher If you suspect there could be more to life than what you're getting...if you always knew you could do anything if you only knew what it was, this extraordinary book is about to prove you right! A life without direction is a life without passion.

	Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway by Susan Jeffers Internationally renowned author, Susan Jeffers, has helped millions of people around the globe to overcome their fears and heal the pain in their lives. Such fears may include: Public speaking; Asserting yourself; Making decisions; Intimacy; Changing jobs; Being alone; Ageing; Driving; Losing a loved one; Ending a relationship.

	I Don't Know What I Want, But I Know It's Not This: A Step-By-Step Guide to Finding Gratifying Work by Julie Jansen Using career assessment quizzes and personality exercises, Jansen helps readers understand their present work or career situation, discover the type of work they're suited for and learn how to create the changes they need.