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.
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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When it comes to achieving the specific outcomes that matter most to you there are no guarantees of success.
There are so many factors that influence whether you get from where you are to where you...
