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How to Be Ambitious Without Stress

When you stay at home all by yourself and spend all day inside sleeping and watching TV, that’s mostly all. How many problems did you face on that day? Close to zero.

Then there is another day when you decide to go out with the mindset to change something about yourself, maybe at work or even in your personal life. You have a target to eat healthy all day and go for exercise. Now on this day, where you increased your activity, how many problems or frictions did you face? It is definitely going to be larger in number compared to the other day with no activity. The more ambitious you are in life, the more experiences of friction you would face in noticed or unnoticed ways, within yourself or from the outer world. This is how change happens, this is how growth works.

But this doesn’t mean that the more ambitious you are, the more stressed you will always be. Ambition doesn’t have to be stressful at all. It could be smooth and, moreover, happy, if you give your thought process some time and understand it better.

Change will bring friction, that is a clear fact. Then ambition is also about something that you really want in your life. If your commitment is solid, then how could the frictions be overwhelming? Unless you imagine them all at once, that would only bring more mental load. Solve everything one by one. Hundred minus one is ninety-nine. Ninety-nine minus one is ninety-eight. And when you subtract all the ones, there will be zero. Use your energy to solve the hurdles, stress kills your brilliance. It’s of no use.

The Path Of Ambition

The path of ambition is sweeter than the ambition itself. Wherever you want to reach, as of now, maybe sometimes you are dreading these days and want to fast forward to the final scene. Let me tell you, whenever you are at the final scene, definitely you would be happy about reaching there, but the most precious thing you would realise was always the journey. For your entire life, you would keep it very close to your heart. That will always be the place that you would revisit in memories, in vocal stories to others.

So when you are here, make the most of it. Remember this as your precious time where you are going to experience life in so many ways like you never had before.

What helps with rebuilding focus and attention is developing a meditation practice. Start with 5 mins of solitude and focus on your breathing. This would be first and effective step towards ambition without stress. If this is something you wish to explore here is my calender link for 1:1 meditation and clarity sessions.  

Bye and Have a good day!

 









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