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.
When it comes to creating change to achieve what matters most to you, people focus mostly on planning and the tasks they need to do to get from where they are to where they want to be.
That is,...
When you want to create a big change of some kind, it can feel daunting, overwhelming, and like a mountain to climb.
But, if you change the way you see the mountain, it becomes easier to scale it.
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I first started to seriously think about how to change my life to live, work, and do business on my own terms in a way that felt fulfilling and meaningful to me over 20 years ago.
At that...
When you want to create change in your life, work, or business, it is important to be aware of common mistakes that many people make.
That knowledge and awareness can help you proactively...
I used to have a “successful” corporate career (based on the conventional definition of success).
And yet, it didn’t feel fulfilling or meaningful to me. As a result, I...
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...
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...
