Ali's Blog - Outside of the Circle
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Rarely, if ever, are we taught or encouraged to define what thriving means to us in our lives, work, or businesses.
As a result, many people don’t expect feeling like you are thriving in your...
First step to deal with toxic people effectively
Dealing with toxic people can suck the living daylights out of you. It can feel soul destroying and draining at best. At worst, it is damaging on...
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...
Every year I assign one week at different times throughout the year to have no meetings or appointments and create a clear schedule.
It creates more time, focus, and energy to dive into things that...
If you would like to feel less busy, less overwhelmed, and have more time and energy for the things that matter most to you in your life, work, or business, it is time to clear your path of the...
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...
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....
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...
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...
