No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

Ambition becomes overreach only when the lift is borrowed. If the strength carrying you is genuinely yours, built and paid for, there is no height at which you become presumptuous, and the people who say otherwise are often measuring by their own comfort. The real danger runs the other way: rising on credit you did not earn, a name, a lucky season, an old reputation. Altitude like that has nothing underneath it.

Look at what is currently holding you up and ask what is doing the holding. Put this week’s work into the part that is actually yours.