Hey guys, welcome to another Sunday pep talk. It's a little something to get you going as you start the week ahead or to pump you up wherever today's conversation finds you. This week I wanted to talk about ambition. If you're the kind of person who wants to grow, if you're the kind of person who dreams

bigger than your circumstances, who's working on something or building something or becoming something,

this is the community for you. Around here, we don't shrink ourselves. We don't

apologize for having goals and we definitely don't pretend that we're fine with just getting by.

This is a community where we know that there is something more in us,

that we have potential that we are trying to live into.

And I don't think that ambition is something to be ashamed of.

It's not a dirty word.

It's a compass.

So if no one's told you lately, you're allowed to be ambitious.

You're allowed to want more. More impact, more joy, more peace, more time, more you. Whatever your version of more is. It's not selfish. It's not aggressive.

It's not too much. Ambition is a signal that something powerful lives inside of you and it's asking you to pay attention. I know that the word makes some

people uncomfortable. I know it makes some people squirm, particularly if you're a woman. We have been

conditioned to think that ambition is reserved for boardrooms or Wall Street or people who work 80 hour weeks. We've been told

that we should be grateful for what we have, that we should stay in our lane, and that we should

practice being humble and having humility. but let me be really clear.

You can be wildly grateful for the life that you have and still want more from it.

That's not a contradiction. That's an evolution.

An ambition, it doesn't just mean money or career. Ambition can show up in all kinds of ways.

You can have the ambition to want to be a more present parent. The ambition to want to run a 10K or get out of debt or learn Italian or write a book or finally heal from trauma you can have the ambition

to build a life that feels more like you. Ambition is simply the voice inside that whispers

there's more in you. And the root word for ambition comes from the Latin word ambire, which means to go about.

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