161:  Reclaim Personal Success and Ambition as Your Own

Overview

Before we can step into Sustainable Ambition, we first have to challenge what we’ve been taught to believe about success and ambition. From there, we can build the foundation for our Sustainable Ambition.

Today I’m sharing an excerpt of the audiobook for  Sustainable Ambition: How to Prioritize What Matters to Thrive in Life and Work. Chapter Two is called “ Reclaim Personal Success and Ambition as Your Own,” and breaks down why you need to define success on your own terms and offers a broader, more freeing way to think about ambition.

In the chapter, I also explain why I use the word “right” when talking about Right Ambition, Right Time, Right Effort, and it’s not because there is a wrong way.

Listen to the full episode to hear:

  • How being goal-oriented and striving to succeed is a natural human impulse

  • Why external definitions of success leave us feeling unfulfilled and anxious about our status

  • What does a broader view of ambition look like

  • Why it’s okay and expected for ambitions to ebb and flow and change over time

  • What we can learn from endurance athletes about resilience and ambition

  • Defining Right Ambition, Right Time, and Right Effort based on what is right for you

  • An introduction to the tools you’ll find in Sustainable Ambition

Resources Mentioned

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