Ali's Blog - Outside of the Circle
Ali's latest articles on designing life, work, or business on your own terms, creating change successfully, and unleashing your true potential.
When you want to create change in your life, work, or business, it is important to be aware of common mistakes that many people make.
That knowledge and awareness can help you proactively...
We all experience storms of some kind in our lives, work, or business at some stage.
They can feel overwhelming and difficult to deal with.
For times when you are dealing with a storm...
I used to have a “successful” corporate career (based on the conventional definition of success).
And yet, it didn’t feel fulfilling or meaningful to me. As a result, I...
If you would like to feel less busy, less overwhelmed, and have more time and energy for the things that matter most to you in your life, work, or business, it is time to clear your path of the...
If there is one thing I have learned over the last 20 years of creating change to design each new chapter in my life, work, or business, it is that the path is never linear.
Setbacks happen, often...
At regular intervals throughout the year, I take myself through a Back to Basics process. My definition of what going back to basics means is this:
Being laser focused on the specific...
Creating change successfully can feel hard, uncomfortable, and like a mountain to climb. That can leave you feeling stuck and overwhelmed.
At times like that, it is useful to focus on...
Rarely, if ever, are we taught or encouraged to define what thriving means to us in our lives, work, or businesses.
As a result, we often end up in situations when we do not feel we are thriving....
Feelings of fear are common when you want to create change, design a new chapter of life, or set a new goal for yourself.
Often, our instinct is to retreat from fear as a form of self protection....
Twelve years ago today, my family and I started to explore the possibility of moving to Canada to live. Almost two years later, we moved to Canada after seven fabulous years in Ireland.
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There are many factors that contribute to creating change to achieve specific outcomes successfully.
But in this article, I want to focus on an important factor that is often...
If you feel stuck in a rut in your life, work, or business, you are not alone. Midlife and beyond is a particularly common time for people to feel stuck in a rut, for many reasons.
When you feel...
