#RBMValues: Music to Kick-Start Your Ignition for Naked Ambition

By Kyle Christensen:

We’re back with another RBM value! This month, get pumped up by reading all about our value of Naked Ambition. There’s no such thing as being perfect. Why? Because you can always strive to be greater in all that you do, both now and in the future. Read about our third value below and get your free playlist here! Don’t have Spotify? Listen to the playlist at the end of this article!

What is Naked Ambition?

Red Branch Media defines Naked Ambition as, “If it’s wrong to want to be the best, we don’t want to be right.”

You heard that right. We pride ourselves on being stubbornly ambitious. When you have a company that’s full of people who want nothing but the best for their clients, it not only benefits the client, but it benefits the company and workers within it. When one person creates something ambitiously amazing, it sparks inspiration within their co-workers to do the same. Because of this, there is no end result, only momentum that builds off of each other.

How We Apply Naked Ambition

For me, Naked Ambition is the ability to not be happy with your work until it’s amazing. If it means revisions, revise. If it means scrapping the entire project and starting over, scrap it. By stepping outside of your comfort zone, you’ll create something that’s better than what you originally planned. Then when you get to your next project, challenge yourself to top it.

“Naked Ambition is the desire and fortitude to be better than the rest. It’s the emotion that drives the Red Branch team our goals every day and our individual motivations that pushes us to try again and again to outdo ourselves.”

– Alison Wurth, Content Strategist at Red Branch Media (@Alison_RBM)

How You Can Have Naked Ambition, Like Us

Let’s step up your game.

Here are 3 tips you can apply to your workday to be more ambitious:

• Get into the routine of looking through inspirational work by people in your field. Take time to figure out what makes their work great or how they used their work to solve a problem. Getting motivated and inspired will act as a creative spark you can use to fuel your own work!
• If you have an idea but don’t know how to make it happen, make it happen. Do this by asking co-workers for assistance if needed, bringing the idea to your boss and asking for advice, researching, watching tutorials, you name it. Whatever it takes to make your idea come to life, do it.
• Be realistically ambitious. It is possible to fill your plate too much. When this happens, you’ll put yourself underwater, workloads will increase, and you’ll get burnt out. To avoid this, make sure when you’re planning out your workday to only take on what you can handle. This way, you’ll have the opportunity and time to be ambitious with your projects.

Naked Ambition is a powerful value. The work you produce from utilizing it will inspire yourself and your teammates to do better and your clients will be blown away. Apply this value today, and stop by our blog next month for another value you can adopt. In the meantime, bookmark this article and listen to the Naked Ambition playlist on Spotify that’s fully handmade by the Red Branch team, or below!

Keep Up with All of Our #RBMValue Playlists, Here:

• #RBMValues: Music That’s Fit for Grit
• #RBMValues: Music with a Ferocity of Curiosity

How to Find Us on Spotify

There are a few ways to find us on Spotify. First, you’ll need a Spotify account. You can do that by going to www.spotify.com and creating a free account. Unless ads drive you nuts, a free account is all you’ll need. After you’ve got your account, go to our page and click follow.

By following us, you’ll get email notifications each time we put out a new playlist. We’ll be creating fresh lists for you each month so you can listen to them as soon as we publish them! Now go download the desktop application for your computer, the app for your phone or stream music online by taking a listen to our playlist here.

Kyle Christensen

Kyle is the Brand Director at Red Branch Media.

Kyle leads our Graphic Design Department at Red Branch Media. His ability to manage incoming tasks, collaborate with the design team, hit deadlines and keep our file storage system well-organized has helped to shape the design department clients love today. While he’s away from the branch, he spends his time playing drums, video games, cranking the latest emo, pop-punk and screamo songs on Spotify, drinking local Omaha brews, and enjoying life with his wife. Kyle has a BASA with a Concentration in Graphic Design and a Minor in Art History from UNO.