Testimonials and Reviews of

"I just finished - Your Life Journey by Stephen Conway and Paul Meyer, and am delighted to have had the opportunity to do so.  Previous to reading their book, I had been touting Dick Bolles classic, What Color is Your Parachute --  as the icon in the career development field.  What Stephen and Paul do in their destined classic, , is take the idea of "getting a job in your lifetime"; and shifting the paradigm to "in your lifetime, engage your passion".
 
"I found myself happily doing the multitude of excellent exercises in the book, and realizing I am indeed following my life's passion.  As a fellow author, I am helping people attract the life they want through empowering word choice.  Stephen and Paul do an outstanding job of mentoring you through a process of attracting the life you want through thoughtful, keen, and insightful examples of how you can engage your passion."
- Bob Nicoll, MA, author of "Remember the Ice and Other Pardigm Shifts"

“ is a really inspiring guide to a help people travel more effectively on their career (and life) path.   It provides some excellent self evaluation tools and systems that really make a difference to the reader.  As a professional career coach, I really liked the Career Direction Analyser and the sections on Sustaining Motivation and Creative Career Marketing.  Easy to complete and enjoyable to read,  is a guide that can genuinely help people with their next career move.”
- Tom O’Neil (Psych) Managing Director of CV.CO.NZ & career contributor to ‘What Color Is Your Parachute’ 2008, 2009 and 2010. 

“ serves as an excellent practical tool to help bridge the career-conundrum that many of us face in our working lives.
 serves as a wake up call for anyone entering or just contemplating a career transition.”
- Raj Thomson, editor of New Zealand Human Resources Magazine

“Brings a refreshing way to review career progress, for any employer, employee or business person. Helpful tool for those who are keen to future-proof their careers.”
- Graham Southwell, National Director, BNI (Business Network International), New Zealand

“Simple strategies that produce positive results for your career path, and more, in this inspiring book. Encouragement, challenges, rewards, managing life-balance, the ‘You can do it!’ It’s all here.”
- Angelina Weir, Director of Executive Enterprises Limited

“Stephen and Paul come from a varied set of life experiences to communicate their knowledge, wisdom and insights in practical and creative ways. No matter what your position in school, tertiary study or the workforce  will help you move forward in life with more certainty.  This gem will give direction to any person planning their journey to emotional and financial fulfillment. Copies should be available in every school.”
- Les Black, Director Electroflash Resourcing Ltd - Distributors to Secondary/High Schools

“These authors transitioned through their careers, learning how to share their insights with readers in practical and creative ways. No matter what your position is in the workforce, will help you move forward in life.”
- Winter issue 06-07 magazine from Tate Publishing, LLC, USA

  “Careers ‘navigators’ Stephen Conway and Paul Meyer have produced this handbook – published to help people map their way through life and career choices and challenges.

They say a career can be our ‘financial vehicle’ to take us through the life we choose to lead. Tips and tools are offered to initiate changes, confront fears and identify aspirations.

Once objectives and goals are clear, readers are in a better position to decide whether to enrich their present career or move onto something new.

Keep it handy and use it when needed. For instance, Conway and Meyer suggest picking it up when you are not coping with change.”
- From review by Donna McIntyre, New Zealand Herald reporter

“ explores how careers influence our lives – often disproportionate to the quality and balance of lifestyles we deserve and desire.
Demands on early childhood owners, managers, committee members and teachers have progressively increased and the need to up skill and educate, qualify, conform, and adjust to many changes and imposed demands.

Paul presents a refreshing and stimulating workshop on how balancing career with lifestyle is crucial to optimum performance.”
- Sue Thorne, CEO Early Childhood Council of New Zealand

“I first met Stephen and Paul when I applied for a job they were recruiting. To bolster my CV, I enclosed a copy of a project management book I had written. I must have impressed Paul and Stephen because they have now burst into print themselves, however I don’t think I impressed them that much as I did not get the job!

With deregulation, outsourcing, off-shoring and automation the landscape of our working environment has changed forever. And with it the concept of a job for life is a thing of the past (even in Japan!). The reality is that most people are going to have many jobs or many careers in their lifetime. We therefore need to prepare ourselves and equip ourselves to be able to manage these career changes and make the most of these career opportunities as they arise. Herein lies the significant contribution of  .

Having a comprehensive guidebook which has been drawn up by experts will enable you to manage your career path to suit your life’s journey, not the other way round, where you let your career path rule your life. This book outlines many practical methods to evaluate who you are and quantify what you want from life, so that you can take control of your career.

One of the best models for gaining an overview of where you are and where you are going is the career life cycle. The career life cycle shows how our life can be subdivided into a number of phases or stages as we progress from education to work, from apprenticeship to management, and from work to retirement.

The key to success is to manage each of these phases as a project and appreciate that each phase will come to an end, and therefore needs to be interlinked with the next phase. Once you accept that our lives are a series of stepping stones or building blocks, then you will appreciate why education and experience progressively pays dividends in later life. The career life cycle will also enable you to plan for redundancy and changing market forces, so you can reposition yourself to achieve a better lifestyle.

This book by Paul and Stephen will give you the confidence to take control of your career and enable you to strike a balance between career and income, achievement and lifestyle.”
- Rory Burke, MSc Project Management from Henley Management College, Author and Lifestyle Entrepreneur

 “The title comes from the need to ‘strip away’ outside influences to find what we really want from life”
- From article by Heather McCracken in Eastern Courier

 “ does offer a sound and well- structured rummage around many of the underlying motivational and aspirational aspects of making career changes: why we cling on to jobs when we're not too happy in them, for example. The book has lots of simple checklists and self tests. For anyone seriously stuck in the mire of rethinking their next career move, this book could be worth checking out. It's a lot cheaper than going to a career coach.”
- Reviewed by Ruth Le Pla for New Zealand Management - The Leaders Magazine

 “A book about clarity and purpose. Tragically a lot of people are facing redundancies - This book could be a sanity saver.”
- Ann Andrews (CSP) HR Consultant, Team Facilitator and Author, The Corporate Tool-box

 “Stephen and Paul have written a practical, informative and helpful roadmap. It shows anyone how to sustain and manage a career in today’s difficult economy. This book may well become a classic.”
- Richard Webster, Author of over 90 titles, including “Seven Secrets Of Success”