Elisabeth Best
@lisbest
Elisabeth Best
It's a common misconception that burnouts come from hard work. Burnout comes from a felt loss of control and/or impact. Remember that you can burn out employees (or yourself) with little to no work.
Andreas Klinger • Managing people
ambition and polycrisis
It is important to underscore that many of us do not have the resources or stability that offers us the space to dream. Dreaming is a privilege in and of itself. To have space to dream, we need rest, food, shelter, health care, or access to resources that allow us agency. I want us to dream towards each other. I want us to dream towards action. Com
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The first step of any meaningful pursuit is to severely underestimate its difficulty.
Sara Hooker • Tweet
And the thing is — everything is changing: how we communicate with one another, how we think about ourselves, how we think about job prospects, how we even think about what constitutes success. And even good change is hard.
Vivek Murthy — To Be a Healer
Frequent lamenting about how bad things are (in politics or relationships or other culture gripes) is mostly a way for people to avoid responsibility for what they can change. If you constantly repeat that everything is bad, it lets your ego off the hook for doing nothing.
The popular narrative of ambition defines it as coming from a place of scarcity, and that leads to guilt over seeming thankless or wanting more than we have. True ambition ideally comes from a place of abundance, which means being ambitious in ‘doing’ and ‘being’ but being content in ‘having’.
Sindhu Shivaprasad • Page Not Found | Framer
Sipping abundance like water
“The better it gets, the better it gets.”
Amanda Frances • Rich as F*ck
What if no sacrifice is required? What if every path that you are on, that feels like a means to an end, had a shortcut available for you?