Happiness is satisfaction. Happy people don’t tend to change their worlds much.
Ambition is dissatisfaction. Ambitious people want to grow, fix, learn and change things – so they can be happy.
Learn to be both at the same time.
Be happy while you are working to make things better.
Do not suspend happiness until the world is just as you wanted it to be.
Satisfied and dissatisfied – what blend are you?
Nearing 54 yo, and in my 30th year in business with some capital to work with I am seemingly on the edge of being mature enough to better embrace the parts that add to my dissatisfaction and unhappiness and move more quickly back to satisfaction. I’ve never considered your point of view of ambitious = dissatisfaction. With a great team, it’s getting easier, or at least hard for less long, but the stressful points are still draining to me. And that is part of the dissatisfaction.