I also want to progress both career-wise and spiritually. Want to consecrate myself more and more to the Divine service. Also, stay away from migraine, depression, anxiety, palpitations, and too much fear and overthinking.
Then it is best to take up some work for the material sustenance and do it in the spirit of the Divine Service. It is best if the work is aligned with your innate temperament and done to express your inner truth rather than simply to make money, etc.
Stay busy with work and studies. Thinking about other people, about what they are doing or thinking, how they are, etc., is a sheer waste of time. Overanalysing does not help. Spend time instead in reading, meditating, and working with the right attitude.
Remember, the path of worldly success and of true spiritual progress, of inner growth and outer achievements, does not often run together. Sometimes one has to choose in terms of prioritising one while keeping the other as a balance, or else of turning the work itself into a means for progress.
Also, satisfaction of ambition and desires does not mix well with spiritual life. The former brings bondage and depression, while the latter is supreme freedom and delight.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
