Ambition,
by definition, is to have strong inner desire in order
to achieve something plus the willingness of striving in order to
achieve it. The goal can be in terms of wealth, education, job promotion, honour or fame. When you are ambitious you posses great deal of energy inside your brain and heart.
This energy acts as fuel to perform all the necessary steps in order to
achieve what you want to achieve. You play your 'games' like Maradona;
you imagine and paint your 'life portraits' like Picasso and you act
like Steve Jobs when it comes to creativity and innovation.However this does not mean that if you do not have expertise as those of Maradona or Pablo Picasso or Steve Jobs, you cannot be ambitious. The purpose of mentioning these personalities is that the level of energy you should be striving for should be as that of such personalities. You should not limit the size of your dreams. People who aim high, achieve high. It doesn't matter who you are; what matters is what you want to be.
So if you are ambitious, check yourself against these qualities:
1- Do you have a
concrete goal. Have to your tried writing your short term and long term
goals on a piece of paper. Trust me, it helps a lot. Even I suggest
writing it on a paper and paste it somewhere in your room so that you
keep looking at it multiple times a day.
2- Do you have solid vision
on how you are going to achieve it? Have you thought what actions do
you need to perform? Have you arranged the resources in order to move
ahead?
3- Are you a
genuine ambitious person having burning desire to achieve? Know this
story? Once a young man asked Socrates the secret to success. He took
the young man to the river and ducked him into the water. The boy tried
hard to take his head out but Socrates was strong enough to hold him
there for some more seconds. Then later Socrates asked him what was the
most important thing he wanted when the head was in water? They boy
said, "Oxygen and I was too desperate to have it". Socrates said, "this
is the level of burning desire which you must possess for your goals.
When you have it, you will succeed"
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