Ali's Blog - Outside of the Circle

Ever feel like you’re stuck and not sure how to get past that? Uncomfortable, isn't it? That cycle can feel never-ending.

But that feeling of being stuck isn’t necessarily a problem. It’s a sign that...

The top factor affecting whether you will successfully achieve the changes you want to make in your life, work, career, or business is often overlooked. 

For most people, the starting point is to focus...

Many things in your life can hold you back and sabotage the progress you want to make with changes you want to create for yourself. 

For example, maybe you want to make some kind of change in your li...

There are days when your life will change forever, in an instant, and never be the same again. You don’t know it is coming. You haven’t prepared for it. It just happens to you. That happened to me whe...

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, witho...

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.

O...

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 time, it f...

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 started to question what succ...

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 overlooked. 

Overlook...

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...

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...

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 ...