Create Your Retirement: 55 Ways to Empower the Rest of Your Life [Paperback]

Barbara M. Walker (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 6, 2006

Create Your Retirement: 55 Valuable Ways to Empower the Rest of Your Life Imagine fulfilling your life in retirement! You will not fritter away your time. Nor will you just fill up your days with interesting things to do. You will find out what it is you want to do with the rest of your life - and through self-coaching what gives life real meaning. Set off to follow your passion. Your life will be valuable. Exciting! Worthwhile! You will discover: How valuable your life is. Why you need to realize your expectations and dreams. Where to look for meaning in your life.

Editorial Reviews

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I love the way you lead the reader through the book with powerful questions and real-life examples. -- Rich Fettke, MCC, Past-President of the Professional and Personal Coaches Association and Author of Extreme Success.

The Internet resources are very helpful all listed close together. Great job and every wish for success! -- E.W. Truant, Published Poet.

About the Author

    Barbara M. Walker is a well-known educator in both the independent and the public school systems of British Columbia. Following the completion of a five-year term as Head of Crofton House School in Vancouver, The Fraser Institute presented Ms. Walker with the Outstanding Principal Award in the category of Academic Excellence. Prior to that, Ms. Walker was principal of David Thompson Secondary School in Vancouver from 1990 to 1995. She served as an elementary and secondary teacher, secondary administrator and district consultant for the Vancouver School Board, and taught for the Department of Defense in Lahr, Germany. Ms. Walker is also an Honorary Member of the Canadian Association of Independent Schools. This honor is in recognition of her service as the Head of a CAIS school and for her contribution to the Association and to education in Canada.

    Ms. Walker's educational qualifications include two Master of Education degrees - one in Reading and the other in School Administration, and a Master of Business Administration in International Business Management. She holds a Bachelor of Education and is an Associate of the Royal Conservatory of Toronto. She grew up in the Okanagan Valley and graduated from Vernon Senior High School. Currently Ms. Walker lives in Vancouver with her husband, Dr. John Secter. Her consulting firm is engaged in coaching and executive development.

    Ms. Walker is a certified Professional Co-Active Coach trained by the Coaches Training Institute in San Rafael, California. She is a member of the ICF (International Coach Federation), the Vancouver Chapter of the ICF, and a member of Coachville.

Product Details

• Paperback: 186 pages
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing (July 6, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1553698142
• ISBN-13: 978-1553698142
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,907,660 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)