This ambition article is built surrounding a turn of phrase I used with my kids and grandchildren. The phrase is – ‘You can get anywhere from here’. Let me explain.
I live in a small village and however you look at it you wouldn’t say it is the nerve center of the world. A traffic jam here is 2 cars waiting to get on to the chief road. When the kids were growing up, like children far and wide they on occasion used to moan about what was available where they lived. My answer was ‘you can get anywhere from here’. In other words no matter what you want to do or wherever you want to go you can get from here.
If you want to you will and if it’s not that big a deal you won’t bother. The childrens reasoning and attitude is very much like a lot of people’s response to their position. They look at their existing location, position or circumstances and say they cannot get what they want because of where they are. If they came to me for guidance, guess what I’d say, yep, ‘you can get anywhere from here’.
The most vital thing in life is not your circumstances but your motivation to achieve or do what you want to do.
The dictionary definition of ambition is to have an earnest craving for some sort of achievement or distinction, as power, honor, fame, or wealth, and the readiness to strive for its achievement. If you have real ambition it does not matter where you are right now. Because ‘you can get anywhere from here’.
There are many many people who you can read about that had determination to achieve in a specific field but at the beginning didn’t show any indication that they would be successful. In fact people around them laughed at them and wrote them off as dreamers. Again there are many testimonies of people who have suffered all types of significant setbacks in numerous areas of life. And from the ashes of traumatic events they have risen to glory. We read the accounts of those involved in sport, business, entertainment and life in general and we are amazed at the drive and persistence to defeat all obstacles in their way.
Ambition isn’t solely thinking or talking about what you want to do. Neither is it planning it out on a piece of paper or a fancy computer program. It is really knowing where you want to go and how to get there. And then taking whatever action is necessary to get there. No ifs or buts, just achievement. Ambition in actual fact is the key to success.
There is a quote that sums up ambition from Ferdinand Magellan. He was an explorer in the early to middle sixteenth century and was the first man to sail around the world.
"The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore…Unlike the mediocre, intrepid spirits seek victory over those things that seem impossible…It is with an iron will that they embark on the most daring of all endeavours…to meet the shadowy future without fear and conquer the unknown."
When Magellan set sail his mind set was ‘I can get anywhere from here’. Even though he was going where no one had been in the past. He didn’t ponder disappointment just achievement and for that he had to pay a cost. [Why not read his story.]
Wherever you are, right now, if you want things you have to make them happen. You have got to take action, defeat all obstacles and continue until you are victorious. If I was right there in the room with you today and you told me what you wanted to do. My response would be, ’you can get anywhere from here’.
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