Conscious Ambition Tips: Moving through dissonance
Conscious Ambition Tips To help become more consciously ambitious and thrive in life and work.
Below are Conscious Ambition Tips shaped from 3 of my podcasts guests’ insights around Right Ambition, Right Time, and Right Effort.
From Moe Carrick on Right Ambition:
Recognize work as a source of meaning, not just income—align your work with personal motivations and values for greater sustainability
Be deliberate in developing self-knowledge, understanding what you value in your work and what you need to be at your best.
Create a personal checklist of work conditions that energize rather than deplete you
Exercise agency in shaping your relationship with work rather than being a victim of circumstances
Develop the courage and skills to advocate for yourself at work
From Laura Vanderkam on Right Time:
Gather data and gain awareness by tracking your time use for 1 week to identify disconnects between your priorities and how you actually spend time
Implement weekly planning session to allocate time for professional, personal, and self-care activities and align your time with what truly matters
Set a firm bedtime to ensure you’re replenishing your energy consistently
Schedule a weekly "night for yourself" to do an activity you enjoy outside the home
Optimize work by doing a little more of what you enjoy, make more work friendships, and making your breaks better
From Dina Denham Smith on Right Effort:
Treat emotions as valuable data rather than distractions to be managed
Build emotional self-awareness to better manage your resilience
Identify and deploy practices that replenish your internal resources when facing emotional demands
Establish clear boundaries that allow you to support others without depleting yourself
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Sustainable Ambition offers a strategic approach for pursuing our professional and personal goals in a way that is motivating, meaningful, and manageable from stage to stage, rather than be all consuming in a way that compromises other important aspects of our lives or sacrifices our well-being.