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. 

How to Deal With Change You Didn’t Choose, Don’t Want, or Don’t Like

Some changes in your life and work will be ones you choose, want, and welcome with open arms.

Others will be ones that you didn’t choose, don’t like and don’t want.  When that happens, it can feel ex...

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15 Factors That Contribute to Creating Change Successfully

The path to creating change in your life, work, or business can sometimes feel like a mountain to climb.

There can be many obstacles, setbacks, mistakes, and uncertainty along the way that can slow d...

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How to Move from Struggle to Success
Confession! Despite making numerous big changes in my life, work, and business since leaving the corporate world 20 years ago and working on achieving goals each year, there have been times when I hav...
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Dealing with Uncertainty: 8 Ways to Manage it Effectively

We all experience periods of uncertainty at times in our lives. 

Sometimes, it is triggered by your own choices, such as making a significant change to achieve something that matters to you. 

It can...

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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 resu...

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Design Your Next Chapter

As dawn broke on 1st January 2000, I was sat on top of a mountain watching the sunrise on a new millennium. In that moment, I decided I wanted to create significant change in my life and work. It wasn...

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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 with that e...

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Sometimes...(the ups and downs of life and work)
Some thoughts on the ups and downs of life and work:  
 
Sometimes your life feels amazing.
Sometimes it feels like it sucks.
 
Sometimes you feel you can achieve anything.
Sometimes the v
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The Key to Solving Your Struggles

We all experience struggles at times in our life and work, for all sorts of reasons. Some happen due to external sources outside of our control. Some are self-created.

Solving those things can feel d...

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Sometimes the Best Way Forward is to Take a Step Back

We live in an always on world. We are conditioned to always be on the go, doing something, schedules packed, both personally and professionally. It has become the accepted status quo. That is somethin...

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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 w...

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How to Improve Your Chances of Creating Change Successfully

Deciding to create change in your life or work rarely comes with an absolute guarantee of success. So it helps to have a strategy to set yourself up to succeed.

If there is a change you want to creat...

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