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. 

A different way to approach making progress to achieve the results you want

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....

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How to Navigate Life's Storms Successfully

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...

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The Five C’s of Creating Change Successfully

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...

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The Most Important Question to Ask Yourself to Achieve Your Goals

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...

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8 Steps to Be Less Busy and Reclaim Your Time

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...

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How to Stop Fear From Holding You Back

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...

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How To Get Back on Track When You Feel Derailed

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...

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Dealing with Uncertainty: 8 Ways to Manage it Effectively

We all experience periods of uncertainty in our lives, work, and businesses at some time.

Sometimes it is triggered by our own choices, like choosing to create a significant change that is...

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How to Create Goal Specific Support to Set Yourself Up to Succeed

One of the things that often gets overlooked when people set goals or decide to create a change in their life or work is the big difference creating goal specific support can make to progress and...

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How to Get Out of Your Own Way and Create Change Successfully

It feels so frustrating when there is a change you want to create and you know you are getting in your own way of the results you want to achieve but don’t really know the best way to deal...

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Stop tolerating what holds you back

There are things in our life and work that hold us back.

There are things in our life and work that will stop us from achieving what matters most.

There are things in our life or work that we wish...

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How to Stop Getting in Your Own Way

If you want to increase your chances of achieving what matters most to you in your life or work, it is important to make sure you are not getting in your own way of the progress and results you...

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