Ali's Blog - Outside of the Circle

Many things in your life can hold you back and sabotage the progress you want to make with changes you want to create for yourself. 

For example, maybe you want to make some kind of change in your li...

There are days when your life will change forever, in an instant, and never be the same again. You don’t know it is coming. You haven’t prepared for it. It just happens to you. That happened to me whe...

Who you surround yourself with matters.

You are more likely to succeed and thrive when surrounded by constructive, supportive, solution-focused people.

When surrounded by people who are unreasonably...

“Fake it until you make it” is terrible advice.

Here’s why:

You are creating a mindset that you are pretending. And when you repeatedly pretend to do something, it isn’t part of who you are. You are...

Rarely, if ever, are we taught or encouraged to define what thriving means to us in our lives, work, or businesses.

As a result, many people don’t expect feeling like you are thriving in your one and...

When it comes to creating change to achieve what matters most to you, people focus mostly on planning and the tasks they need to do to get from where they are to where they want to be.

That is, witho...

First step to deal with toxic people effectively

Dealing with toxic people can suck the living daylights out of you. It can feel soul destroying and draining at best. At worst, it is damaging on many...

When you want to create a big change of some kind, it can feel daunting, overwhelming, and like a mountain to climb.

But, if you change the way you see the mountain, it becomes easier to scale it.

O...

What if the thing you are struggling with or feeling stuck with could be the gateway to change your life for the better?  

Life, work, careers, business and any other aspect of life you can think of,...

I first started to seriously think about how to change my life to live, work, and do business on my own terms in a way that felt fulfilling and meaningful to me over 20 years ago. 

At that time, it f...

There is a problem with the way we often focus on progress. And it is this:

We often expect ourselves to deliver progress at the same pace and level, every day, week, and month throughout the year.

Every year I assign one week at different times throughout the year to have no meetings or appointments and create a clear schedule.

It creates more time, focus, and energy to dive into things that m...