64. A More Sustainable+Ambitious Year: Q2 Assess & Adapt with Kathy Oneto

Overview

In this episode, Kathy Oneto, founder of Sustainable Ambition, builds on the series that kicked off the year on planning and living a more sustainable+ambitious year. This episode is about checking in on your Q2 progress. How have things gone? What worked? What didn’t work? What do you want to practice next? It’s time to Assess and Adapt to help you both stretch and sustain yourself in your life+work in the months ahead.

The series coincided with the launch of the Sustainable Ambition 12-Month Workbook+Planner: Your Life+Work Resilience Rx. The workbook+planner offers inquiries, exercises, and planning tools to help you lead a fulfilling, sustainable, and ambitious life+work. Learn more at: sustainableambition.com/planner2022

If you’d like to do this work with others, consider creating a circle of friends or professional colleagues to plan and learn together over the year. Doing this work as part of a community can support you in setting intentions, holding yourself accountable, providing encouragement, and learning together along the way. Find guides for a Planning Circle or Workshop at Work at: sustainableambition.com/planner2022

Have a beautiful and enjoyable summer! Here’s to sustaining ourselves!

Topics Covered

  • Kathy starts by welcoming you all back to the series, providing some grounding, and articulating how it’s a great time to check in at the halfway point in the year.

  • At this stage, she suggests that it’s a great time to check back in with your ambitions for the year. Has anything changed in how you want to stretch and strive?

  • She also offers some new insights on ambition based on research she’s been doing and offers six prompts to further explore your “right ambition” right now.

  • Kathy encourages you at this midpoint in the year to also review your calendar. Based on your pace and the year’s fullness, what might you need to do to manage your calendar over the next 6-12 months to make your life+work sustainable?

  • Kathy then moves into the Quarter 2 review. How have things gone in your April, May, and June? What’s worked? What hasn’t worked? Has it been sustainable? What’s been unsustainable? What do you want to do differently in the next quarter, and what do you want to practice?

  • Kathy is transparent and vulnerable in sharing what she’s learned over the last quarter.

  • She then provides brief prompts to help you plan for this summer quarter of July, August, and September.

  • A note to listen back to Episode #45 (link below) if you’d like more detailed prompts to help you plan your Q3. It’s time to Aim for your July, August, and September and get into action.

  • Given the summer months, she encourages us all to lean into our sustaining plans. What do we need and want to do to build more resilience for the year ahead?

  • Kathy reminds us to put monthly reviews and the Q3 review on your calendar now. Plan to check-in and see how things are going so you can optimize as you go through the quarter.

  • And she closes with sharing again some of the things she’s planning and practicing.

  • Have a beautiful and enjoyable summer! Here’s to sustaining ourselves!

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64. A More Sustainable+Ambitious Year: Q2 Assess & Adapt with Kathy Oneto

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