Reality Check no. 3: What Can I Only Get From Career Ambition?

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Think back to a time when you were engrossed in a compelling, fascinating work project—a time when you felt yourself craving passion, drive, or a certain craziness, where you fell asleep thinking about your inspiring goals and then you woke up the next morning and couldn’t wait to get back to your work. How did it feel? Be as specific as possible. Take your time and recall and savor the details. What were the circumstances that made you feel so fired up? How did you feel during the process? Try to specifically recall the kaleidoscope of thoughts and feelings—the fears, excitement, self-doubt and redemption you experienced. How did you feel hitting obstacles and failures and having to come up with Plan B, or Plan C or Plan Z until you got it right?
How did you feel in that moment during which you realized you’d finally, miraculously achieved your goal? What recognition, compliments, bonuses and raises came with your win to make it an even sweeter victory?  How did you feel being singled out as someone who had done a great job and had been ambitious enough to make something difficult happen? What did people say to you? How did you respond? How did you feel being the center of attention because you’d achieved an ambitious goal? Did you allow yourself even a moment to feel inspired by your own accomplishment? Something along the lines of Hey! I really did this! I made the thing happen! It was me! Wow. Who would’ve thunk it?! In what ways did this accomplishment make you want to set the bar higher for yourself? Did you follow through?