Conscious Ambition Tips: The benefits of space and spaciousness
Below are Conscious Ambition Tips tied to space and spaciousness.
Create space for you to shine.
Hard work isn’t a bad thing, even when we’re seeking sustainability. The trick is to put hard work into what actually matters to make progress and meet our goals.
In this podcast conversation with leading visibility coach Susan Barber, she tells us that learning how to make sure your talents and contributions are seen is an essential piece of making the impact you want to make and offers practical steps for shaping how you show up at work.
Listen to the full episode to hear:
✨ The 3 essential components for shaping your career: image, exposure, and performance
✨ How to build confidence in your value and unique perspective
✨ How to be intentional in how you show up to have major impact
Because as Susan shares, if you want to advance in your career, focusing on performance metrics alone won’t lead to success. Your work ethic matters, but so does your visibility in your workplace.
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Another view on time: clock time (time matters) vs. event time (spaciousness matters).
Which is better? This TED talk makes the case against clock time, but the researcher, Anne-Laura Sellier, a professor of behavioral sciences at HEC Paris, would say both matter—we just need to know which to use when.
A few ways that clock-time works against us: impacts our belief that we are in control of our time and calendar; limits our ability to adjust and be flexible; creates the illusion that the world is disconnected and chaotic; and inhibits our ability to savor experiences, reducing our experience of happiness.
What I appreciate is the invitation to acknowledge when to allow ourselves to be in which experience of time to best serve the circumstances and what we are trying to accomplish: clock-time to be used when time really matters (e.g., I need to get somewhere by a certain time) and event time when spaciousness is ideal (e.g., to savor a moment).
Cultivate time for a spacious mind.
**This article makes the case for us to not fall prey to always being in the “doing mode” and to instead flourish by finding the right mix of both doing and the “spacious mode.”** The article (worth signing up for) provides tips on how to cultivate more spaciousness in the workplace. Why is it important? We can see broader implications and interdependencies, see possibilities, and be more connected with the context around us. Allowing for both modes can keep us from falling into the busyness trap.
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