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. 

Feeling Stuck in a Rut? 7 Ways to Start Getting Unstuck

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 stuc...

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10 Steps to Reclaim Your Time and Be Less Busy

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 pro...

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Get Out of Your Own Way

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 th...

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Get Started With Creating The Changes That Matter Most to You

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 start...

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3 Overlooked Obstacles That Hold Back Creating Change Successfully

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.   

However, s...

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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 long list of task...

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10 Questions That Will Help You Achieve What Matters Most to You

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 th...

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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 it.

Bu...
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How to Stop Feeling Drained
 When we feel drained in life, work, or business, it can feel really uncomfortable and like a mountain to climb to get past that. So it is really useful to have a way to start breaking that cycle.
 
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3 Ways to Manage Progress Effectively to Achieve Your Goals

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 derail...

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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 that ...

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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 contro...

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