Category Archives: Useful Tools and Techniques


Why you really don’t need to fear failure

By admin | Published October 18, 2009

Although we don’t always like to admit it, one of the biggest reasons we don’t always go for what we want in work - or life - is that we are afraid of failure.
Why does the idea of failure hold such power over us? Actually, we recover from failures all the time. Consider this:
How many [...]

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One of my favourite reads

By Sarah Cooper | Published July 31, 2009

This might sound a little implausible, but reading a 70 page e-book curled up on my sofa one morning last week was honestly one of my favourite experiences since starting my coaching practice two years ago. (Clearly I don’t get out much).
Some of you may know that I’m a coach, writer and workshop leader for [...]

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Identify Those Elusive Transferable Skills: The 3 Pronged Attack

By Sarah Cooper | Published July 24, 2009

Not long after starting my coaching practice I delivered a workshop to young Chinese professionals on creating the perfect CV.
I was shocked to discover that the majority of participants were simply incapable of naming something they were good at – despite them all being competent English speakers with better jobs than most of their peers.
Half-way [...]

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How To Recapture The Optimism Of Youth

By Sarah Cooper | Published July 3, 2009

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We all know that being positive is a Good Thing. But as we get older, it’s not that easy to break long-held habits of negative, self-defeating thinking.
I wonder if it’s because our thoughts are both so familiar and invisible that we don’t always appreciate their serious effect.
Imagine that every negative thought we [...]

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Two Simple Ways To Free Up Your Time

By Sarah Cooper | Published June 19, 2009

Sophisticated time management tools, techniques and theories abound: go here and knock yourself out with a comprehensive overview – Pareto, activity logs, Locke’s goal setting theory, it’s all there.
But I’d like to focus on two very simple ways we can free up our time, by stopping doing things.
Recently I’ve made a great “stop doing” decision, [...]

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6 Simple Steps To Naming Your Lifestyle Business

By Sarah Cooper | Published April 1, 2009

I started my lifestyle business, Cows From My Window, nearly two years ago and deciding what to call the wretched thing was definitely one of the hardest parts of the setting up process.
I obsessed over potential business names for the better part of a week. I’d wake up in the night to scribble down [...]

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How To Know For Sure If It’s Work That’s Right For You

By Sarah Cooper | Published March 3, 2009

Deciding on a new career direction can be a paralysing experience. This is particularly true if you’ve spent many years in a job or profession that didn’t quite fit.  You really want to make the right choice this time round.
 
I’ve been there and felt the agony of hovering around on the edge of a [...]

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The Fastest Way To Get Your Energy Back

By Sarah Cooper | Published January 16, 2009

 
From time to time our passionately held beliefs – our exciting goals for the future – lose their oomph. Maybe we’ve come up against a problem we just can’t see our way around. Or perhaps we’re just exhausted from working too hard. Like a soufflé taken out of the oven at the wrong moment, we [...]

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Uncover Your Buried Dreams – By Writing The Perfect Obituary

By Sarah Cooper | Published January 2, 2009

I know this sounds rather morbid, but writing your own obituary is actually a great way of uncovering the dreams you have for your life.
 
Often we don’t acknowledge – let alone achieve – our dreams because we prefer to carry on with our hands in the sand, living our “good enough” day-to-day lives and [...]

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