By skyforbes 
A prompt pack for ambitious women
We’re less than 90 days from the end of the year, and if you’re anything like me, you’re feeling it.
That nagging voice asking where the time went. The weight of what didn’t happen. The projects you didn’t start because you were waiting for the perfect moment — or someone else’s permission. The ideas you kept quiet because what if they weren’t good enough? What if people judged you?
It’s exhausting, isn’t it?
Here’s what I’ve realized: ambition and self-doubt don’t have to be mutually exclusive. In fact, they often show up together. We want to do meaningful things, to make an impact, to build something we’re proud of. But somewhere along the way (usually pretty early on) we learned to question ourselves. We developed defense mechanisms that once protected us but now hold us back. Self-doubt. Perfectionism. Comparison. The need for external validation.
These aren’t personal failures. They’re human.
But they don’t have to run the show anymore.
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