AMBITION
Before I could really start to write about ambition, I had to ask myself what ambition really was. What causes people to be ambitious, and what are the advantages and disadvantages of being an ambitious person? At first, I must admit it was fairly difficult to comprehend. But I found it to all come together when I related it to another kind of person or group of people – dreamers.
Ambition is the desire to achieve something, or to succeed, accompanied with motivation, determination and an internal drive.
Ambition describes those that achieve success based on their inner desire to do so and their belief in themselves. Ambition in itself may not be a key to success. Successful, ambitious people need both energy and goals to succeed. Someone with plenty of energy but no goals may find themselves pursuing one opportunity after another without success, wondering what it is that they are wanting out of life.
When I think of ambitious people I think of dreamers. These are the people with hopes of one day conquering and ruling the world single handedly, and having everything work out just the way they want it to. I also feel that an ambitious person is a confident one.
And in order to dream as large, one would have to be ambitious. I then asked my mother a similar question, but found a great difference not only in the period of time it took for a response, but in the answer as well. Her answer was more realistic, almost as if she knew her limitations and her options, and her dreams had both narrowed. This helped me to understand that high ambitions lie in the youth of the world. And although adults may be ambitious at heart, their minds help them decide what is and is not realistic.
Through my experiences in dealing with ambitious people (and being one myself) I found that ambition may cause certain amounts of unnecessary stress. It may even cause you to forget about the things that hold great importance in your life. An ambitious person tends to only see his or her objective, and anything that gets in the way of progress is either ignores or looked at as an advantage. This in return may cause people to dislike you, not because they want to see you fail, but instead want you to realize that they have to have ambitions and dreams. And from time to time, they desire some kind of acknowledgement for their goals that they hope to one day accomplish
Someone with goals but no energy may find themselves wanting to achieve success, but too complacent to do the work to go about pursuing their goals.
They might also start projects but quit when the work becomes too hard or too much work.Ambition is not a requirement for success for many people. Many unambitious people would describe success as accepting what life has to offer and making the most of it. However, ambition is a necessity for those who want to achieve a specific goal, such as becoming a CEO, actor, or billionaire.
Every person has life ambitions in their life. Some want to be a rich. Some wish to be a leader. Some desire to be great scientists. There are others who are mainly like adventure. Our young boys and girls like to go to foreign countries. Their aim of life is to earn lot of money within a short period.
My ambition of life is neither wealth nor social status. My ambition is simple. It is help to poor people and serves my life where I need. My heart is always full of sympathy and weeps for homeless people. I love and do my best to help those who need my help. All heroes in the world who help and serve their whole life for poor people are respectable for me. Their life is a symbol for those people who would like to serve their life for humanity. Service for needy people is my motto.
