Smooth Move, 6 Steps to Relocating With Your Family and Staying Alive

By Noa Ronen

In our global business world, many families find themselves relocating to a new state or country. Going through relocation can be very painful - there are conflicts, doubts, and mostly the inability to know how life will really be after the move. Facing the unknown can be even more stressful when there is a family involved. Smooth Move is a valuable primer that addresses everything a family should know from the moment they receive a relocation offer to well after the boxes are unpacked. The book covers what information families need to make a thoughtful decision about relocating, how to present the decision to children and other family members, the most important moving preparations, how to say goodbye to and keep in touch with family and friends and how to make sure the spouse and the rest of the family have support after the move. This book is not just an informative textbook; but a must-have-manual for any family dealing with relocation. Complete with how-tos, checklists, and questions that will help readers manage their relocation projects and gain clarity about their feelings and actions for every step and decision along the way. Author Noa Ronen relocated across continents twice with her family and works as a coach to help others going through transitions.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Noa Ronen
• Release date: Feb 24, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301386987

Noa Ronen

Noa Ronen, CPCC. Life & Transition Professional Co Active Coach. No matter what life transition you are experiencing right now, I believe there is something we all have in common. We must be present in our life to create a fulfilled future. If you are ready to stop living in your past or idealized future; if you are ready to stop living by whatever circumstances have put you in your current situation, I will help you get clear about your needs and goals and give you tools to help you reach your future vision. Whether you are creating a new business, thinking about pursuing a new career or go working through personal issues, we will design a system that will support you step by step to move forward, and create the life you have always wanted.

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Smooth Move

6 Steps to Relocating With Your Family and Staying Alive

By Noa Ronen

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Copyright 2013 Noa Ronen

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Table of Contents

Introduction – what is this book about?

Action: Get Clear About Your Move

Step 1 – Making the Decision

1 Get Clear About what is Important for Your Family

Action: Get Clear – 5 important points for Your Family

2 Get Clear About the Budget

Two Key Steps to Check Your Shipment Worth

Action: Calculating Shipment Worth

Action: Get Prepared for the Meeting with the Employer

3 Meeting with Your Employer

4 Making the Decision

Action: Steps to Make a Decision

Step 2 – Sharing the Decision with Your Kids

1 Schedule a Family Meeting

2 Not Too Much Information

3 - Certainty and Consistency

4 Ask for their Help

5 Let them be Heard and Communicate

Three Key Ways to Support your Kids Dealing with their Emotions

Action: Sharing the Relocation Decision with the Kids

Step 3 – Manage your on the Move Project

1 - Let’s get Packing!

2 - Let’s get Talking!

Action: Check My List

Step 4 – Saying Goodbye and Stay in Touch

1 - Get a New Perspective about What your Family Members See

Action: Compassion Perspective

2 - How to Say Goodbye

3 – Ways to Stay in Touch

Step 5 - Get Settled

1 - Make the Transition Fun

2 - Settling In

3 –Getting Adjusted

Three Key Ways to have Successful Family Routine after the Move

Action: Establish Daily Family Routine

Action: Our Family Traditions

4 - Adjusting to School

Five Key Ways to have Successful Playdates:

Action: How to set a Playdate

5 - Talk about it, Be Curious

Five Key ways to have Successful Conversations with Your Kids

6 – Check for Early Warning Signs

Action: Support Your Kids after the Move

Step 6 – What about you

Four Key Elements to Meet Your Needs

Action: What am I choosing?

Introduction – What is this Book About?

Seven years ago, a few months after I had started a new job, my cell phone rang. It was my husband calling from NY. He was there for a business trip. This is it, he said, They want us to move here, I got the green light!

If you already have received the offer I will assume it wasn’t a big surprise for you. It was probably something you planned in your head for years, or maybe you had a sense that it might show up very soon from conversations you had with your supervisors. When my husband called me, it wasn’t the first time we had the what if… relocation conversation, but holding the cell phone and hearing this is it’ suddenly became very real.

I remember flying to NY and feeling the butterflies in my stomach: the mixed emotions of a new adventure and all the concerns of a new and confusing time in our family life. Let’s face it; I wasn’t really happy about it. The timing, as often happens in relocation, wasn’t ideal. I had just started a new job that I loved, after staying home with my two little kids for almost a year. I wasn’t ready to leave my new career behind.

This whole relocation experience was very confusing for me. I recall hours of conversations with my husband, pros and cons. Was this the right decision to leave everything behind and move with two young children to NY? We were in our 30s, we had family and friends we loved, nice careers, 2 adorable kids, an apartment, cars. Life was pretty good for us!

My husband knows how important my career