#Sustain_Able
What started as a fun play on words quickly became the foundational motivation for this company. I will walk you through what #sustain_able is, how it works, and the steps I am taking toward making this a certification path that YSSL fosters on a community level.
What #Sustain_Able Is
Let’s break down the word sustainable and split it in two: Sustain and Able.
- Sustain: To support or maintain oneself.
- Able: To have the capacity or ability to do something.
Are you ABLE to SUSTAIN yourself and your life? Is the community ABLE to SUSTAIN stability and growth? Is the cultural and resource framework in place to support your #Sustain_Able life?
#Sustain_Able Is Not Passive
I am actively working to establish frameworks for growth. It’s about providing the foundation for everything to thrive, so nothing is left behind.
- Capacity and Growth
- Having the ability and resources to support continued development rather than defining sustainability through limitation or scarcity.
- Connection and Identity
- Recognizing that every part of a system contributes to and is affected by the whole, while allowing individuals, businesses, communities, cultures, and resources to retain their distinct identity within that larger system.
- Regeneration, Profitability, and Balance
- Creating systems in which resources can return, renew, and become useful again, while economic viability remains part of the system rather than something separate from it. No single part can be optimized in isolation from everything that supports it.
The goal is not simply to create systems that survive. It is to create the conditions for people, businesses, communities, resources, and the systems connecting them to thrive.
Where I’m At Now
#Sustain_Able is the founding philosophy behind how I build. I am developing it into a framework that can be applied across industries, giving businesses a way to understand where they are, identify gaps, and build toward a more sustainable model.
Building the Framework
I am establishing #Sustain_Able as a practical framework that can assess where a business is today while providing a path toward where it can go.
- Assessment and Gaps
- Identifying what is working, what is missing, and where opportunities exist to strengthen the business.
- Development and Application
- Using the framework to help businesses address those gaps and develop products, processes, and systems that better support their long term growth.
- Certification and Recognition
- Developing #Sustain_Able into a recognizable certification, similar to Ocean Wise or B Corp, that can be applied across industries and recognized on products, processes, and businesses.
The Framework
Designed to be both a tool for development and a standard for recognition. A business can use it to understand where it stands, identify what needs to change, and work toward meeting the established criteria.
The philosophy establishes the direction. The framework creates the pathway. The certification makes that achievement recognizable.
Future Growth
I am developing #Sustain_Able beyond a philosophy and into a system that people and businesses can actively participate in. The next stage is to build the education, implementation, assessment, and recognition needed to make #Sustain_Able something that can be used across industries and become recognizable beyond YSSL.
Building the Certification
I am developing #Sustain_Able into a formal certification that establishes a recognizable standard for how a business operates. Certification will be connected to the actual implementation of the framework, not simply an understanding of its principles.
- Learn and Implement
- Businesses learn the framework, identify gaps, and work through the changes needed to put it into practice.
- Operate and Demonstrate
- The business applies the framework within its actual operations, developing the products, processes, systems, and relationships needed to demonstrate that it is functioning within the model.
- Recognize and Grow
- Successful implementation becomes recognizable through #Sustain_Able certification, creating a standard that can extend across industries and sectors.
Building the Social Language
At the same time, #Sustain_Able will continue to exist as a social language. The hashtag creates a way for people to identify and share #Sustain_Able products, processes, businesses, choices, moments, and lifestyles.
The certification gives the language substance. The social language gives the framework a life beyond the businesses that participate in it. Together, they create a system that can teach, demonstrate, recognize, and continue to grow what it means to be #Sustain_Able.
See It in Practice
#Sustain_Able is the rationale. The work is what happens when that rationale is put into practice.
Go back to the home page and see how the different parts of YSSL begin to take shape through that lens. The products, systems, experiences, and infrastructure are not separate from the philosophy. They are where the philosophy becomes tangible.
This is the why. The rest of the work is the what and the how.
To learn more about #Sustain_Able or the work I am developing through YSSL, contact me at hi@yoursweetspot.life