80. Part 2: A More Sustainable+Ambitious Year Q4 Planning - How to Avoid the End of Year Crush with Kathy Oneto
Overview
This episode builds on the series that kicked off the year on planning and living a more sustainable+ambitious year. Kathy Oneto, founder of Sustainable Ambition, is back with Part 2 of the Q3 Review to now focus on Q4 planning.
Here she talks about dialing in your ambitions for the end of the year, creating a sustaining plan to avoid the end-of-year crush, and has you focus, despite her own resistance, to looking ahead to 2023 to make initial plans for making it all more sustainable if you expect the fourth quarter to be demanding.
A reminder that E79 and this episode 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!
Here’s to an ambitious, sustainable, and joyful end to the year!
Topics Covered
As we look to the fourth quarter of the year and see the end in sight, a good place to start is revisiting our ambitions for the year. What were your priorities for your professional and personal lives? What might need to be renegotiated at this stage of the year? Where do you want to put your focus for Q4?
After dialing that in, it’s time to create your sustaining plan. How can you avoid the end-of-year crush that so many feel? What would make your end of the year more fulfilling and joyful?
Even though it feels odd and even Kathy feels resistance to this, it’s also a good time to look beyond the end of the year and this year’s 12-month calendar to lightly plan another 3-6 months out. This is also a part of your sustaining plan.
Here’s to an ambitious, sustainable, and joyful end to the year!
Resources Mentioned
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Give the Gift of a More Sustainable+Ambitious Life+Work! Learn more about the Sustainable Ambition 12-Month Workbook+Planner: Your Life+Work Resilience Rx: https://sustainableambition.com/books/#workbookplanner
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
E52: On Setting Your Own Pace with Kathy Oneto: https://sustainableambition.com/sapodcast/52
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
Episode 79: Part 1: A More Sustainable+Ambitious Year Q3 Review & Learning - Discerning Between This and That with Kathy Oneto: https://sustainableambition.com/sapodcast/79
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80. Part 2: A More Sustainable+Ambitious Year Q4 Planning - How to Avoid the End of Year Crush with Kathy Oneto
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