106. What Do You Get When You Combine Sustainable With Ambition?

Overview

What is sustainable? What is ambition?

What happens when you put these two seemingly incongruous words together?

Some people think they are mutually exclusive, but I disagree. 

In this episode, I dive into what I mean by each of these terms with a hope that you can better understand that these two words can live together, making you a believer in Sustainable Ambition, too.

Listen below or on your favorite podcast player.

Listen to the full episode to hear:

• Why ambition often takes the blame when things feel precarious

• Reframing the definition of ambition as a value-neutral, natural part of being human

• Five ways of thinking about sustainability in the context of your ambitions

• Why it’s natural for ambitions to ebb and flow as you seek to balance work and life

• Why it matters that your ambitions and metrics for success are internal, not external

• How Sustainable Ambition helps us navigate career inflection points

• How to manage your effort relative to your ambition to avoid burnout

• How to create structures to support your pursuit of your ambitions

Resources Mentioned

• Join Kathy to come Behind the Book: Sustainable Ambition

• Get It Done: Surprising Lessons from the Science of Motivation, Ayelet Fishbach

• Ambition: Why Some People Are Most Likely to Succeed, Time Magazine, 2005

• On the Value of Aiming High: The Causes and Consequences of Ambition by Timothy Judge and John Kammeyer-Mueller

• 14. On Managing Your $ to Support your Life with Bridget Jones

• 16. On Creating the Life I Want with Christine Bader & Eva Dienel

• 51. On Becoming Superhuman & Avoiding Reckless Ambition with Dr. Sahar Yousef

• 60. On The Success Factor: A Blueprint for High Performance with Ruth Gotian

• 81. On the Novel Bit Flip and Ambition in Silicon Valley with Mike Trigg

• 88. On the Agency to Define Your Own Ambitions & Success with Al Dea

• 104. The Benefits of a Portfolio Life: Fulfillment Beyond Work with Christina Wallace

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