HOW TO FIX BEING AMBITIOUS & DIRECTIONLESS

If you're someone that's overly ambitious but also feeling extremely directionless right now, this is the one framework that's prescribed by the Columbia MBA program that you need to know to get yourself back on track when it comes to your career. Overly ambitious people benefit from a lot of structure. But we also have big egos and big dreams, which means a lot of times we have to go off the written path that on ourselves and try new things. The framework that you need to start by following is the "gel" framework. What am I good at? What do I enjoy doing? What affords me the lifestyle that I desire? To find what you're good at, you need to go back through any feedback you've ever received. Something general and impersonal, as your family saying that you're good at certain things, or things that you've gotten in your annual review and feedback sessions, or emails, or old projects, and even from old managers. If you find out what you're good at, focus on the core tenants of those things. Are those skills salvageable? Are they transferable? What career paths do they keep popping up in? That's you're going to stop feeling directionless and be able to start taking actionable steps on what you want to do and where you want to go next.