Ambition - "Meditations For People Who Do Too Much"

Meditation for people who do too much.

Ambition.

Sometimes you wonder how you got on this mountain.

But sometimes you wonder,

How will I get off?

From Joan Manley.

Ambition has been important to many of us.

When we were little,

We realized that it was important that we work hard and become somebody.

We wanted to get ahead,

And we were willing to go to any lengths to be competent and important.

In the last few years,

We've had many more options for our lives,

And we wanted to take advantage of these options.

When did things change?

When did we cross over the line from having ambition,

Which was good,

To being had by our ambition,

Which is killing us?

Often,

With addictions,

The very skills which kept us alive when we were younger,

Like dishonesty,

Control,

And manipulation,

Are now lethal and are draining the life from us.

This may be true of our ambition.

If it now is running our lives,

It may be time to take another look.

What was good for us at one stage of our lives may be lethal now.

We need to take stock and see where we are with our lives.