We are house hunting at the moment in our local area. The other day our house visit coincided with the beginning of removal day for the expatriate tenants. What greeted us was organised chaos; a harassed looking mother who was desperately trying to keep one step ahead with a very long to-do list in hand, [...]
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Who or What Controls Your Life?
As we near the end of the school year there is more than a sense of school being out. For quite a number of parents and their families, their time in Portugal is nearing an end and they are preparing to move on. The constant need to reinvent ones life is obviously part of the [...]
A ‘Moving Time’ For All
So here we go again! As we drove to school on the first day of term my eight year old daughter commented that she was feeling sad that her ‘lovely’ teacher would be leaving the school and country at the end of this term. As I sympathized I also started to wonder who else my [...]
Abraham’s Path
As I was thinking about pursuing ‘passions’ in preparation for this weeks Teleseminar, I was struck by the passion and vision that is contained within this project. In the Video Joshua Weiss talks about the vulnerability that comes with embarking on such a walk. At night they would enter small villages with no where to stay, trusting and relying on a hospitable reaction from the locals, which they received.
Inspired or Depressed By New Year Resolutions?
Did you make a New Year’s Resolution this year? Follow my easy recipe to ensure that what you envisioned yourself doing in 2011 will happen and make you strong, healthy and happy.
What Motivates People to Choose Moving On Over Staying Home?
Earlier this week I wrote about the challenges involved in living and working abroad. Perhaps an article like this does give a bit of a gloomy perspective on the experience, but forewarned is forearmed and setting realistic expectations is so important pre-move. A move abroad never is all sea, sun and sangria! But Challenges dispatched [...]
What will you do while living abroad – Work?
If you have been following these blog postings and using them to help you think through a decision about relocating abroad you will have: Given some thought to your life vision and goals – for blog post click here. Considered what is good and possibly not so good about your current situation – for blog [...]
Where Are You Now?
Often when people talk about the issue of relocating abroad and making the final decision to go they talk in terms of what pulls them towards their new life: The better lifestyle and quality of life. The new experience of living and working in a different culture. The benefit of gaining international experience. The weather [...]
Your Vision Becoming Reality.
So you think you’d like to move to live abroad? If this is so then you are not alone, currently over 200 million people live outside of their own country and a recent Worldwide Gallup Survey found that 16% of the worlds adults would like to live abroad permanently if they had the chance (Source: [...]
Is moving abroad a serious intention OR a distant dream?
A recent survey conducted on behalf of the Hydrogen Group (A Global Specialist Recruitment Group) found that 94% of the professional workers interviewed were either working abroad already or were interested in doing so. Recognising the value of international experience in an increasingly global economy, the consequential personal and career development resulting from overseas work [...]
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