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.
There is a problem with the way we often focus on progress. And it is this:
We often expect ourselves to deliver progress at the same pace and level, every day, week, and month throughout the year....
We all experience storms of some kind in our lives, work, or business at some stage.
They can feel overwhelming and difficult to deal with.
For times when you are dealing with a storm...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
We all experience periods of uncertainty in our lives, work, and businesses at some time.
Sometimes it is triggered by our own choices, like choosing to create a significant change that is...
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...
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...
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...
If you want to increase your chances of achieving what matters most to you in your life or work, it is important to make sure you are not getting in your own way of the progress and results you...
