I feel I have too many ambitions..?

Question

Does anyone else feel that they want to do so many things and feel they do not have enough time to achieve them all?

Answer 1

Prioritized them in order of importance. Basically long term and short term ambitions. (Short term, long term goals.) Sometimes just narrowing things down a bit will take out the confusion and frustration of having too many ideas to work with. :) I hope this helps. And yes I too have like a bazillion ambitions. :)

Answer 2

Oh my God yes!

I'm approaching 39. At 11 I was a champion ballroom dancer (don't ask!). I'm degree educated, have been a (successful?) actor for 13 years, own a large property business, was an Army officer, a much-published photographer since my teens, lived alone in Borneo at 16 for 6 months, travelled the world consistently throughout my life, stand in local politics at election time, and give talks advising landlords for the National Landlords Association. And no, I'm not making any of that up!

I feel I have done everything, but guess what? I'm unfulfilled. I've got a wealth of ambitions still, some of which I will achieve and some of which I won't, and boy do I feel time is running out! It terrifies me and I am dogged by a sense of failure and lack of achievement. As I get older, this only gets worse. I guess there's no pleasing some people - I just never want to get to my death bed and found I've missed something!

All we can do is what we can do in the time allotted. We have to accept that we cannot do everything. Pick what pleases you most at the time and if it doesn't work, you have learnt from that that your life's ambition is in something else. If you take the path less travelled, your life will be all the richer.

The best of luck to you.

Answer 3

I do, but i try not to think about not having enough time to achieve them all. That can lead to the problem where you do not even want to bother trying to achieve them because you won't finish them.

Take one thing at a time & enjoy the hell out of each one. Life is too short to get discouraged. Just keep plowing through those ambitions and regret nothing. And if you must have regrets..... It's better to regret doing it than to regret not doing it at all. At least you'll have the experience behind you, and that's more than what most can say.

Answer 4

In general this is good sign. It is good to have ambitions in life at all, for ambitions only show how energetic you are, and how passionate you feel about life – ambitions are the energy of life we have, and we all need to live and succeed. But this energy if not purposefully brought into certain objective formations can scatter the mind into various directions, and thus wasting it into discordant and ineffectual attempts, especially when we harbour contrasting ambitions in our head.

I have many ambitions, actually I used to have more, but as the time passes our purposes get stronger and more mature, our visions get sharper clearer and objectives more attainable, we feel more at home with few properly nurtured ambitions than with many as we do in the early stages of our life. We learn as we live. In the beginning we try to realise all that we dream about, but then we come to know that certain things simply do not go together peacefully, and that there are certain things they can take up our entire mind making it impossible for us to see what else we could have achieved, or aimed for.

But there is no point trying to fight off whatsoever monstrosities in the name of ambitions one might harbour, or dream about, for one’s life, the fact is that the harder one fights the stronger they get and deeper they go in one’s mind. The best way is to get your priorities right and then whatever comes at the top pay full attention to it, and let all the rest follow.

If you, for example, stand on a crossroad looking at many road emanating from one single point, then take a certain turn into a path you think, feel and realise is the best. Now, the path you have chosen will bring with it its own things into the mind and the rest of the paths that you never chose would not be there as you anymore; just as the Chinese saying goes – you are where you are. The best way to deal with a multitude of ambitions is to live in, or with, the best of them you can realise and the rest will no longer bother you tantalise you. It is very much like having too many women in your eye at first and then getting married to just one in the end, the best the most pretty and hopefully the most kind one.

Answer 5

I really looked at this question, because I am one of those people who knew at a young age, that there are so many wonderful things to do in life. My only fear was that I would get to be an old lady and say, "Oh, I wish I had done THAT"........so, I made sure it did not happen. I started as a school teacher, then, owned my own schools (Montessori)..very successful...........decided I had not received at least a BA degree in Social Work, so that I could help families, more........so I went back to college and graduated top of my class........decided I needed a Masters in Psych, to make my statements more credible........so, I did get that degree. While doing that, I became a licensed, certified hypnotherapist and a nutritionist. All the while, I was working with the justice dept, for free, learning all I could regarding law. I was a Court Advocate, on my own, and worked as a (free) lay lawyer for many, many families. Volunteering with the FBI has been a large part of my life, as well. I enjoy travel, so I visited Hong Kong, China, Macau, Mexico, the Bahamas, all over the Caribbean, Japan, and a lot of places in the United States. Each time I would travel, I would pick out wonderful things to sell wholesale to stores back home! This was successful as well as all the rest. I enjoy people! I have a degree in religion, and I've learned as many languages as I possibly could I speak about 7 languages, and Sign ASL, as well. I ended up being a part of Mensa, and that surprised me, since I was only doing all the things I really wanted to do in life! I have a wonderful, supportive family. My husband of 42 years, kept cheering me along as I kept going to school and working at the same time. My sons grew up thinking that's what ladies' do......they just keep going to school! I write poetry, and stories......have been many times published. I wrote many programs for families and for students, in order for them to get needed clothing, medical care, etc., and implemented the programs, I've been a foster mother, a guardianship mother, had a baby left on my doorstep. I love animals, so during this life, I've raised Siberian Huskies, as well as Teacup poodles at another time. I enjoyed all of this. I will be 63 in June, and I can honestly say that I love my family, and my grandsons are the center of my universe, now.
Happy to say, that I think I've done everything I had in mind when I was a young person. I've loved life, and it has allowed me to really have fun...............still having it.

Answer 6

All the time especially when growing up. Only prob found didn't do anything. Now I keep an eye on one or two things then make sure do them. You've just got a gd attitude to life, sod everyone else!!! That's what I say do what'll you got to do, their forget you as quick as 5mins so why worry about them / it. Atleast your not lieing their the liers trying to drag you down!!

Answer 7

you can have as many ambitions as you want, though you might want to organize them and sort out which ones are going to interfere with other ones that are more important to you. THEN you need to organize yourself and formulate a plan to accomplish your goals in some sort of logical order. If you don't have a plan, you cannt succeed.

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Answer 10

It's ok to have many ambitiions, just write 'em all down so that you don't forget what your working towards and go after them, but only one--or two--at a time. You'll get there