79. Part 1: A More Sustainable+Ambitious Year Q3 Review & Learning - Discerning Between This and That 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. In this episode, we check in on your Q3 progress. Then in Part 2, we’ll look at planning for Q4 to avoid the end-of-year crush and make our end to the year more sustainable.
A reminder that these episodes are good ones to do while out on a walk or making time for quiet reflection. You’ll likely want to pause the episode, think, take notes, and then hit play again. Have your notes app ready or have a journal nearby!
As we look back to Q3, we want to think about: How have things gone? What worked? What didn’t work? Kathy shares her experiences and learning on working with discernment and when to operate from this or that or this and that around goal setting, free-thinking vs. directed attention, and thinking vs. doing times.
Now it’s your turn! What did you learn, and what do you want to practice next?
And be sure to listen in for Part 2 to plan a sustainable close to the year.
Topics Covered
Before Kathy digs into the Q3 review, she gives tips on how to shift the narrative and one’s mindset away from the typical thinking as we approach the end of the year: “Oh my gosh it’s already the end of the year! It’s come so fast!”
For the Q3 review, she starts with looking back at your Q3 ambitions. How were you defining personal and professional success for the quarter? And then she has you look at how you’ve been sustaining yourself.
From there she has you do some ratings to evaluate the quarter and then provides prompts to deepen your reflection.
Kathy closes with sharing her own reflections based on her Q3 and what she plans to practice next in Q4. She then goes into growth learning for her around being discerning about when to step into this or that or this and that. She introduces the concept of Polarity Management and then talks about how discernment around this and that played out for her around goal setting, free-thinking vs. directed attention, and thinking vs. doing times.
Join the next episode for your Q4 planning!
Resources Mentioned
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Learn more about the Sustainable Ambition 12-Month Workbook+Planner: Your Life+Work Resilience Rx: sustainableambition.com/planner2022
Polarity Management by Cultivating Leadership & Jennifer Garvey Berger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyuFr4gTzjU
“The Thinking Mindset vs. The Doing Mindset: Pick One (And Only One)” by Art Markman: https://99u.adobe.com/articles/7240/the-thinking-mindset-vs-the-doing-mindset-pick-one-and-only-one
Enlist others to do this work together, perhaps start by sharing the podcast series and discuss together. Or, for planning guides to host your own planning circle (Personal: Hold a Sustainable Ambition Planning Circle) or workshop (Professional: Hold a Sustainable Ambition Workshop at Work) go to: sustainableambition.com/planner2022
The Series:
Podcast #1, Episode 42: My Ambitions: My Next 12 Months: https://sustainableambition.com/sapodcast/42
Podcast #2: My Sustainable: My Life+Work Resilience Rx: https://sustainableambition.com/sapodcast/43
Podcast #3: My 12-Month Planner + 6-Month Horizon: https://sustainableambition.com/sapodcast/44
Podcast #4, Episode 45: Quarter 1 + Monthly Planning: https://sustainableambition.com/sapodcast/45
Episode 53: On A More Sustainable+Ambitious Year: Q1 Assess & Adapt: https://sustainableambition.com/sapodcast/53
Episode 64: A More Sustainable+Ambitious Year: Q2 Assess & Adapt: https://sustainableambition.com/sapodcast/64
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79. Part 1: A More Sustainable+Ambitious Year Q3 Review & Learning - Discerning Between This and That with Kathy Oneto
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