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Is it a goal or an obstacle?
There's a downside to goals that no one talks about.
No one talks about what ambition does to our mental health. How the desire to succeed ignites bouts of insomnia. How the pangs of anxiety ripple through our consciousness because we don't yet have want we want so badly. How negative self-talk berates us for even thinking we have the audacity to go after something.
I've been ambitious (and subsequently, anxious about my ambitions) as soon as I entered adulthood. That's 12 years of working my ass off and over-thinking my brain away. 12 years of dreaming, planning, breathing, executing my ambitions. 12 years is a lot of time to worry my way to the top. And it seemed as if, each level I graduated to was met with a whole new set of things to check off my list. When would I be finally happy?
That's why, I finally put away my "ambition shoes". No more wanting, desiring, pushing. No more making such a big deal about what I want to achieve in my life that it becomes my life.
Today's episode goes into detail about what I'm doing instead.
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There's a downside to goals that no one talks about.
No one talks about what ambition does to our mental health. How the desire to succeed ignites bouts of insomnia. How the pangs of anxiety ripple through our consciousness because we don't yet have want we want so badly. How negative self-talk berates us for even thinking we have the audacity to go after something.
I've been ambitious (and subsequently, anxious about my ambitions) as soon as I entered adulthood. That's 12 years of working my ass off and over-thinking my brain away. 12 years of dreaming, planning, breathing, executing my ambitions. 12 years is a lot of time to worry my way to the top. And it seemed as if, each level I graduated to was met with a whole new set of things to check off my list. When would I be finally happy?
That's why, I finally put away my "ambition shoes". No more wanting, desiring, pushing. No more making such a big deal about what I want to achieve in my life that it becomes my life.
Today's episode goes into detail about what I'm doing instead.
Related Episodes:
I gave up goals to gain my life: https://open.spotify.com/episode/67srUxeVKlYQGha4BH4Svj?si=uBfs4DwQTdGrMGZl8GZ9VQ
DETACH ALREADY: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7LjL0KQnLEmA9Dze6MeEOq?si=8fd7xCMQQXK50lECO_cw0w
Fuck Your Purpose: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3jduE98eAmcae8p0RT8p0F?si=d3ace8b5f7104781
Find me here: https://msha.ke/ashlynd/
Shop my personal book collection (at discounted prices): https://bookshop.org/shop/ashlynd
if you'd like to support the podcast, keep me going with a cup of coffee! I appreciate all support :) https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ashlynd