Phylicia grew up in the projects. Throughout middle school and high school, all she could think about was, “I hate the way I live, and my kids will never live like this.”
Ambition sparked in her heart at an early age, and she became determined to change her circumstances.
She was one of those people who didn’t just talk about what she was going to do. She actually did it, and she wasn’t going to quit.
By the time she was 25, she had opened her first restaurant, then her second, then her third.
Eventually, she got into real estate, too. She figured, “I might as well own the property my restaurant is operating in.”
You know, that McDonald’s kind of thinking.
But something else happened along the way.
She didn’t just become ambitious for herself. The people who worked in her restaurants became ambitious, too. They started investing in real estate and owning properties instead of renting.
Everything she had dreamed of was beginning to happen.
But this is where ambition became dark.
She started living her life based on whatever she accomplished next. She never stopped to celebrate. She never took a moment to recognize that today was an amazing day.
Even on the days when she accomplished more than she had written down, she still felt like she could have done more.
AMBITION IS A GOOD THING. BUT WHEN NOTHING YOU ACCOMPLISH EVER FEELS LIKE ENOUGH, SOMETHING IS WRONG.
You can spend your entire life chasing the next thing, checking off goals, building businesses, and accumulating wealth without ever stopping to enjoy the fruit of your labor.
And if you never learn to appreciate where you are while you’re working toward where you want to be, you’ll spend your whole life chasing something else.
You’ll never actually enjoy living.
AND IF THAT HAPPENS, WHAT’S THE POINT?
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