I believe this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal before the decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth. This is Walking Your Talk, a personal development podcast about leadership, authenticity and courage. I'm Carolyn Taylor and I've spent my life working with leaders in organizations on how to change their culture, but this is much more personal. If you want to be known as someone who walks your talk at Work and Beyond, then this podcast is for you. Hello and welcome to the podcast. That of course was American President J. F. Kennedy 60 years ago now in 1961, setting the pursuit of excellence on a grand scale, and in a way that was particularly effective for reasons that I want to explore with you, this series is titled Pursuing Excellence. And as always, I want to share with you some of the ideas I'm having about how you can walk that talk in your work or with your team, your clients and in your organization. In the last episode, which if you haven't listened to, I encourage you to listen to because this has got some flow on from that, I talked about taking the opportunity to look externally and to really be curious about what other people are doing so that you can lift your standards about what excellence looks like. And this week, what I want to do is to focus on the power of having an ambition to fuel that pursuit of excellence. Because excellence, I think, is a lofty aspiration for all of us in some form or another, but sometimes it feels to me a little bit wishy-washy and especially sometimes in the corporate environment, or God forbid it gets reduced to that term which I hate, but I have to acknowledge which is consultant speak. So good word, but what does it really mean and something that will tend to just fly over people's heads when it gets thrown around in an organization without too much care. Whereas ambition for me has got grit. And when I looked it up in the dictionary, which as some of you may know is something that I like to do when I'm preparing for these podcasts, it means a strong desire to do or achieve something.