Ali's Blog - Outside of the Circle

One of the biggest barriers to living and working on your own terms is your financial situation, and the choices you make around it.

Many people are funding lifestyles that don’t necessarily lead to ...

Ever feel like you’re stuck and not sure how to get past that? Uncomfortable, isn't it? That cycle can feel never-ending.

But that feeling of being stuck isn’t necessarily a problem. It’s a sign that...

The top factor affecting whether you will successfully achieve the changes you want to make in your life, work, career, or business is often overlooked. 

For most people, the starting point is to focus...

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,...