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320: Sustainable Ambition with Kathy Oneto

Category: Business
Duration: 00:49:38
Publish Date: 2023-04-30 09:00:00
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How ambitious are you? More importantly, how ambitious do you want to be in different areas of life and work? Today’s guest, Kathy Oneto, takes the long view on goals, especially for those of us who are naturally inclined to overwork until we burn out. Instead, we can be more intentional by toggling the dials of right ambition, right effort, and right time up and down as we move through different seasons.

In this conversation, Kathy and I discuss managing ambition anxiety, how to know if you’re bumping up against what Gay Hendricks calls an “Upper Limit Problem” versus your “truest fit reduced ambition,” mapping energy vs. urgency, and how to know when ambitions or life seasons have truly shifted versus handling a short-term setback.

More About Kathy: Kathy Oneto is a strategy executive and life-work coach who is passionate about helping people succeed on their terms at work and in life. She is the host of the Sustainable Ambition podcast. Kathy champions being consciously ambitious and crafting fulfilling work from decade to decade without sacrificing your life or yourself. She is the author of the Sustainable Ambition 12-Month Workbook and Planner: Your Life plus Work Resilience Prescription and My Little Book of Curiosity: 26 Inquiries to Inspire What’s Next for Your Life and Work.


 3 Key Takeaways

  • Is this an ambition I want? How much effort do I want to put into it? What you wanted at once time might not match where you are now in your life and career. You might need to re-evaluate your ambitions, and dial the effort you are putting towards them up or down.
  • Sometimes ambition can clash with what we’re capable of, or what we think we’re capable of, and that contributes to not feeling like it’s worth the effort. Looking at it through the lens of sustainable ambition: we can add structure to support our ambition and current capabilities.
  • If it’s becoming harder for your to move along a certain path, there are four areas to consider: your vision for your life and your work, what your core values are, what you want to give and contribute in the world and your community, and what it is that you love. If you’re starting to have to “grind” then one of those 4 elements as probably shifted.


 Try This Next: Dial-in your ambition. For any given goal, task, project, or area of your life, decide: How good do I want to be? Good, very good, the best? How much effort do I want to put into this? Practice being discerning around setting your ambition, what it looks like and what you want your effort towards it to be.


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