What's Your Ambition?

Another year in the books… I love New Year’s Day!! It’s a time to celebrate your successes, reflect on what you have learned during the past 12 months, and figure out what’s the most important to you going forward. Unless you’re happy just aimlessly wondering around, you have to know your destination. I avoid calling it New Year’s resolution because they often got a bad rep. You know what they say: “Surely New Year’s resolutions never really stick for anyone, bla, bla, bla…” Too much negativity and skepticism associated with this label. Hence, I call it ambition. It’s also the word I generally use in regards to goal setting.

ambition [æmˈbɪʃən]

n

1. strong desire for success, achievement, or distinction

2. something so desired; goal; aim

For every person consumed with the need to achieve, there's someone content to accept whatever life brings. Why are some people born with a fire in the belly, while others need something to ignite that burning desire? And why do others never get the flame of ambition going?

Dean Simonton, a psychologist at the University of California who studies genius, creativity and eccentricity, believes that "Ambition is energy and determination but it calls for goals too. People with goals but no energy are the ones who wind up sitting on the couch saying 'One day I'm going to build a better mousetrap.' People with energy but no clear goals just dissipate themselves in one desultory project after the next."

Anthropologists, psychologists and others have begun looking more closely at these issues, seeking the roots of ambition in family, culture, gender, genes and more. "It's fundamentally human to be prestige conscious," says anthropologist Edward Lowe at Soka University of America, in Aliso Viejo, California. "It's not enough just to be fed and housed. People want more."

“Ambition is like hunger; it obeys no law but its appetite.” Josh Billings

Why not get hungry for success? I’m talking about success in your work and career, as well as that amazing feeling when you believe 100% in your heart that you are on a journey of becoming the best version of yourself. That feeling that comes from being healthy, and being in the best shape of your life. You know very well that these things are ought to be in balance.

If your ambition is to get in shape and adopt a healthier lifestyle this year, I’d like to invite you to an event that may change your life. I have once again teamed up with TheBrainPeople.com to teach essential training and nutritional advice during the same weekend that James Hutchinson (NLP Trainer, Coach, Clinical Hypnotherapist) explores the mindset required to not only to set a plan but also STICK to it.

You will learn a wide range of useful techniques that can be applied immediately to alter your thinking patterns and achieve great success with your health & fitness goals. I have a few spaces available for the two day weekend Mind & Body seminar “With Your Weight In Mind” on 12^th and 13^th of January 2013.  Subscribers of my blog can benefit of the special rate of £149 for 2 persons (bring a friend for FREE). Please refer to www.thebrainpeople.com for details. You can read more info here and to book your place click here.

Reference:

Kluger J. Ambition: Why Some People Are Most Likely to Succeed. Time Magazine. Nov. 06, 2005

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