Curated Growth · Summer 2026
The Aligned Ambitious Summer Guide
How to live your Aligned Ambitious summer.
The Aligned Ambitious summer guide is here. Summer is a great time to reflect and reset your ambitions, lifestyle and dreams for the rest of the year. This guide walks you through three simple steps, presence, desire and action, plus a printable tracker to help you stay aligned all summer long. Along the way, we also curated things to do, read and listen to as inspiration.
Before you dive in, there’s one important note. This is not a list to power through before September. It is a starting point. Take what fits your summer, skip what does not, and add your own along the way. That’s how you create your own Aligned Ambitious summer and slowly, you become Aligned Ambitious year-round.
“This is not a list to get through. It is an invitation to notice what you actually want more of.”
Start with presence
If you are shaping your own Aligned Ambitious life, the most useful place to start is presence. That can be one minute a day, five minutes at the end of the week, or thirty minutes at the start of it. There is no right amount. There is only the amount that is honestly yours to give.
Use that time to ask yourself a few honest questions. What am I currently spending most of my energy on. Where do I want to spend more time this summer, growth, fun, or that hobby I keep putting off. Whatever comes up, treat it as information, not another task on your list.
Once you can really surrender in presence, you will feel calmer over time and start hearing what your real needs are.
These answers are the real starting point for everything else.
“Gifting yourself time and presence is the most precious gift to yourself this summer.”
Become aware of your desires
Once you have made space for presence, you will start to notice what you actually want more of this summer. That is the work of step two, becoming aware of your desires instead of letting them pass by unnoticed.
Write them down. In a journal, in a voice message to yourself, or out loud with a close friend or your partner. It does not matter how, as long as you actually name them.
Naming a desire is what turns it from a passing thought into something you can commit to. Keep it realistic. One or two things you genuinely want this summer, and a real sense of how you will commit to them.
Act on your desires
This is where the rest of this guide comes in. Once you know what you want more of this summer, whether that is rest, connection, movement or simply time offline, you can go find it.
Below is what we and the community have curated for you throughout the summer: things to do, read and listen to, and inspiration to keep discovering. Pick what matches the desire you just named, and act on it.
The Aligned Ambitious Summer Tracker
You just walked through three steps: presence, desire, action. This is how you keep living them. A printable companion with space to reflect, dream and act, plus a 30-day check-in to keep you honest this summer. Download it, print it, and use it daily.
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A summer of things to do, read and listen to
Below is a first round of things we and the community have curated: events to join, places to visit, books to read, and podcasts to listen to. Not a checklist, just inspiration to help you become a little more aligned and ambitious this summer.
Things to do this Aligned Ambitious summer
We have curated a first round of things to do this summer, from our own first ever community events to places worth the detour in the Netherlands and Switzerland. We will keep adding to this list as the season goes on, so check back online.
Aligned Ambitious events
- Aligned Ambitious Support Hour (free). Online, 22 July at 17:00. Join here
- Aligned Ambitious Meetup Amsterdam (free). Amsterdam, 29 August 2.00-4.30 pm. Join here
Online
- Weekly breathwork sessions, every Friday at 9:00 CET, by The Breathwork Club. Join here
- Kabbalah courses by David Ghiyam – the wisdom of David literally changed Floor’s thinking process. Access here
Netherlands
- Fermentation and Dinner Club, “Whose knowledge counts.” 19 July. Details here
- Weleda Herbal Gardens and Spa, Zoetermeer. Visit here
- Dr. A Vogel Herbal Gardens and Barefoot Walking Path. Visit here
Indonesia
- The YogaBarn in Ubud, Bali is the ultimate place to recharge and to find yourself again. “If you are looking for a complete reset in life, this is your place to go” – Floor
Switzerland
- HealPlayLove Festival, 21 to 23 August 2026. Details here
- Farfalla stores, for herbal products and workshops. Visit here
“Every place on this list is here because someone in this community already loved it enough to share it.”
Things to read this summer
A few books to start the summer with, chosen because they offer you a variety of topics to help shape your aligned ambitious life. Whether more practical or spiritual, you decide which path you want to explore next.
- How to Know a Person, by David Brooks
- Reinventing Organizations, by Frederic Laloux
- Saturn Returns, by Caggie Dunlop
- Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away, by Annie Duke
- Out of Your Mind, by Alan Watts
- Ask and It Is Given, Esther and Jerry Hicks
- The lion trackers’ guide to life, by Boyd Varty
Things to listen to this summer
For the mornings you want something calming and the afternoons you want something that makes you think differently.
- Aligned Ambitious podcast for rolemodels opening up about their journey and aligned ambitious way of living
- Mantra Loops, by Geminelle for positive affirmations.
- Calm, The Bridge to Transformation, a thirty minute transformative talk by Alan Watts.
- The Pathless Path, by Paul Millerd to rethink your path and decisions
- The Cosmic Nomad, by Bailey Rushlow
- The Mel Robbins Podcast
- Aspire, with Emma Grede to feed your ambitions
Did we miss something?
Or are you looking for even more inspiration? Add what you love or find more right here.
Become Aligned Ambitious
Reading, listening and bookmarking is a good start, but this guide only earns its place in your summer if you actually use it. Pick one thing from the list above. Go to the event, start the book, take the hour of presence. Notice what it actually gives you.
We would love hearing how it helped you become more Aligned Ambitious. Join our Community, and share what you tried and what it changed. That is how this guide becomes bigger than a list and how you become aligned ambitious, together with the rest of us.
Here is to an aligned and ambitious summer.
With love,
Floor
