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.
We live in a world that embraces and encourages being over-busy, overcommitted, overscheduled, and overwhelmed.
But being busy all the time has a lot of negative consequences, both personally and...
When we set out to achieve what matters most to us in our lives, work, and businesses, we often start with creating plans of what we need to do to get from where we are to where we want to be.
And...
When it comes to creating change successfully to achieve what matters most to you, you don't have to have it all figured out before you start.
But so many people hold themselves back from getting...
When you want to change something to achieve a specific outcome in your life, work, or business, it is important to be aware of obstacles that could hold back your progress and results....
When people want to achieve a goal or create a change of some kind they often start by asking themselves this question:
“What do I need to do?”
They then proceed to come up with a...
A powerful way to set yourself up to succeed with achieving what matters most to you in your life, work, or business is to ask yourself strategic questions that are designed to help you to identify...
Time is the one thing so many people feel short of and want to have more of. But we can’t create more time. We all get the same 24 hours. However, we can be more intentional about how we use...
Most people want progress to happen in ongoing, incremental, consistent steps.
Unfortunately, progress doesn’t always happen that way.
Sometimes it can stall. Sometimes obstacles and setbacks...
Fear is one of the most common factors that holds people back from taking the actions that would help them to achieve the changes, goals, and results that matter most to them.
Many people think...
There are times in life, work, or business that we feel derailed. Progress comes to a grinding halt. It can feel frustrating and demoralising.
Sometimes the cause can be factors outside of our...
Prior to leaving my corporate career 20 years ago I was very risk averse. Because of that, there were many changes I wanted to make in my life and work that I didn’t attempt for a long time.
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