A river with no banks is just a flood. Limits are what give power a direction.

Power without edges spreads out and stops being power. Water between banks carves canyons, and the same water with nothing to hold it is a field of mud doing damage in every direction at once. Your energy behaves identically. Limits on where it goes are not the opposite of ambition, they are the mechanism that turns effort into something with a direction.

Choose one thing to be serious about for the next month and say no to a second one. Narrowing feels like loss and is how the current gets fast enough to cut.