Relocation & Expat Coach

So what were our reasons to want to move to Australia?

After talking to our agents and working through what type of visa we could emigrate with, we sat down with a real feeling that we could do this.  We now knew exactly what we had to do.

Then we looked at the reasons we were selecting to move specifically to Australia.  We looked at what we wanted from our lives, and we looked at the business I have set-up in the UK.  How were we going to make this move?

When we followed the questions in tip two, we understood the real reason we were looking to move to Australia.  This was to allow us to live closer to my parents, and my brother and his family. 

We then asked ourselves if this was the right reason to uproot ourselves from the life we had in the UK to move to Australia.  What impact did this have on what we already had in the UK?  What were we ready to give up?  How easy is it to fly to Australia?

We looked at the work we had to do to fulfil the visa requirements.  We looked closely at the impact it would have on my business and our income stream.  We looked at, within the visa requirements, what changes we had to make to our business plans.  We researched the changes we needed to make to our business plan.  We looked closely at the simplicity of flying to Australia. We looked at our reasons.

We asked ourselves if Australia and our reasons for moving there specifically, met the reasons we wanted to move away from the UK.  We had a long discussion and we made our decision.

Want to make a success of your plans to move?  Want to work with someone who will not judge the reasons you want to make your move, who will not guide you down a specific path?  You have this opportunity to work with a qualified and accredited coach who has done it!

Just email Barbara on [email protected]!

Find Barbara's biog on http://www.internationalcoachinginstitute.org/coach_referral_service/display_detail.php?trf=91

Decision time!

Knowing the requirements to move to Australia, we looked at New Zealand, we looked at the islands around Australia and New Zealand.  Although this research took months, once we had completed it - we knew we were ready to make our decision.

Now that we knew the reason we were looking at Australia and the countries close by, we had to ask ourselves that very difficult question ... was our reason to move to Australia the right reason?

Was the grass 'just greener on the other side of the world?'  We looked at what we were giving up.  We looked at what we had to start or was it re-start? 

After five years of research, studying, flying, visiting, exhibitions, conferences, we had to admit that the reasons we were looking to move to Australia were not the right reasons.  We could fly to Australia at any time we wanted, but we had to admit that it wasn't our choice to move away from Europe or Africa; and that in selecting Australia we were selecting to follow, we were just following the decisions others had made.

It wasn't a comfortable time or happy time in our lives, but just knowing that we had made this decision helped us move our emigration plans forward.  We still knew that we wanted to move away from where we are living now.  What we didn't know, was where to.

We seemed to have spent our married life travelling - both of us had travelled extensively for work.  When I started by own business it was to find a career that would allow me to 'live from home'.  When I re-trained (as a coach) and changed the focus of my own business to coaching, I suddenly realised that I could work from anywhere.  Our opportunity to work from home and live where we wanted to live, suddenly became a reality.  Living in the UK was fabulous for the time when our careers had us travelling around the world, but we knew that this was not the life we wanted to continue to live ... so now started the fun - where to?

As part of our decision not to move to Australia, we not only had to tell my family, but also knew that we had to get the map out and start looking.  Our reasons for wanting to move were still valid and now very clear.  To start looking for our own destination, we went out and bought a world map that we could hang on the wall of the office.

Want to make a success of your move?  Want to work with someone who will not judge the reasons you want to make your move, who will not guide you down a specific path?  You have this opportunity to work with a qualified and accredited coach who has done it!

Just email Barbara on [email protected]!

Find Barbara's biog on http://www.internationalcoachinginstitute.org/coach_referral_service/display_detail.php?trf=91

Tip two - what are you trying to move away from?

Now that you've spent some time working through why you do want to move away from your home country and why you don't, let's explore what you are trying to move away from.

What is it about your current life that you don't like? 

What dreams did you have as a child that you feel you have not fulfilled?

What is it that you do not like about the country you are living in?

What is it about the way you earn your living that you don't like?

What is it about the way you earn you living that you would like to change?

What is it about your immediate environment that you want to change?

What is it about your social life that you would like to change?

What is it about your health and fitness that you would like to change?

Who are you trying to move away from?

Where have you visited that so attracted you, that you feel you now want to move to there?

What is it about that country that has attracted you? 

Before you select to go through the upheaval, what do you need to do to be absolutely sure that the country you've visited, that has attracted you, is able to provide you with all those things you are trying to move away from?

Where in the country that is attacting you, would you be able to find the things that you don't like about the country you are currently living in?

Where could you live that would allow you fulfil the dreams you had as a child?

Where could you live that would allow you to find a way to earn your living, that incorporates the changes you would like to make?

Where could you live that would allow you to make the changes you want to make to your immediate environment?

How will you develop the social life that you would like to enjoy?

Looking at what you don't like about your health and fitness, where could you live that would allow you to make those changes?

What research have you done about your current country that shows that your current country provides you with the things that you are trying to move away from?

Where in your current country could you find the answers to your questions?

What country or countries would you like to research now that you know what you are trying to move away from?  Write these into your journal, with a list of things that you need to research.  Be:
- specific about the country or countries that you want to research.
  specific about the things you need to research in each country.
- how will you measure that your research is a success?
- agreed / action-oriented - you've heard the phrase 'if you fail to plan, you are planning to fail'.  When writing in your journal be clear about your research.
- realistic - looking at the things you are moving away from, what makes your answers a realistic reason to move?  What makes you think that where you are moving to will allow you to move away from these things?
- time framed - what timeframe have put on your move?  Looking at the research that you've still got to do, what makes you believe that you can meet your timeframe?
- exciting - looking back at what you've written down, does it make you feel excited about moving?  Write down what is exciting about the things you have moved away from. 
- recorded - it's important to capture this information in bullet form.  This will allow you to focus - clearly focus.

Want to make a success of your plans to move?  Want to work with someone who will not judge the reasons you want to make your move, who will not guide you down a specific path?  You have this opportunity to work with a qualified and accredited coach who has done it!

Just email Barbara on [email protected]!

Find Barbara's biog on http://www.internationalcoachinginstitute.org/coach_referral_service/display_detail.php?trf=91