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 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...
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...
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...
