Your Path Will Ultimately Reveal Itself
Focus on what feels right in the moment
For the highly ambitious, the thought of relinquishing our sense of control can be quite daunting. It’s all too easy to get swept up into the depths of our burning passion. It’s what fuels our ambition and motivates us to envision and execute.
This is a superpower when it comes to accomplishing our goals but what happens when a wrench gets thrown into our plans and the unexpected happens? The extent of our control only goes so far because we live in a world that is much greater than ourselves.
This realization can be catastrophic to the person that believes they can do anything and it’ll be on their timing. Ambition does just that. It’s intensity not only provides the source for the illusion of control but also validates all your thoughts surrounding it thus creating a self-perpetuating cycle. Undoubtedly, ambition is a great quality to possess, but without harnessing complementary strengths to structure your ambition, it can be quite self-destructive.
During my time of unemployment, it felt as though I was fighting two battles. The first was the more obvious of the two.
The battle of getting a call back.
This involved completing countless applications for close to a year, constant…
