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Your Money Or Your Life: Pam Slim on the 100 dollar business

By Sarah Cooper | Published February 17, 2010

I’m delighted that Pam Slim of Escape From Cubicle Nation is launching the series.
Pam writes a thought-provoking and entertaining blog about how to transition from corporate prisoner to thriving entrepreneur. With Chris Guillebeau from the Art of Non-Conformity, she recently launched the 100 Dollar Business Forum to help aspiring entrepreneurs start a business for 100 [...]

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7 Ideas For Funding Your Dream Work

By Sarah Cooper | Published July 17, 2009

One of the main reasons we stay stuck in a job we don’t like is that it pays us well, or at least adequately. We reason, “well, maybe my job isn’t so great, but at least I can pay the mortgage/fund my kids’ numerous after school activities/go on that Caribbean holiday/justify my daily cake habit.”
Understandably, [...]

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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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Ann’s Story - Why You Should Never Give Up

By Sarah Cooper | Published May 1, 2009

One of the few downsides of my coaching practice is not always knowing how things turn out for a client.
People come to coaching when they want to make a major change - and that’s not easy. In an ideal world, we’d continue the coaching until the client successfully made all the changes they wanted. But [...]

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Getting Started – When You Don’t Know Where to Start

By Sarah Cooper | Published April 5, 2008

 Whether you want to change career, set up your own business, or start a project such as writing a book …sometimes the hardest part is knowing where to start.
 
One of the easiest ways to break through this psychological barrier is to use a wonderful technique called informational interviewing. This is simply asking people for [...]

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