Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Ambition - 21 April 2013


Day 7 – Sunday

It’s Sunday morning and I’m on my way to campus. This is the life that I have become accustomed to, however I have actually starting to enjoy my time at campus, as dull as that sounds, sometimes ambition can drive one to push themselves beyond what they can imagine. This is something that you need to embrace within your very nature as a person.

“They are going to love you for your ambition”……… that’s a profound statement. As it’s easier to dream a dream then it is to live it. This shows you how hard the road ahead is. As priceless as your ambition is, it defines the very purpose if your existence. They only way you to find your true ambition to put your mind off the money and fame and look within yourself to what drives you.

This brings me to the lesson learnt of defining a mission statement for oneself, in essence I see this mission statement as my ambition…that is to say who I want to be in this world. I initially undertook this exercise in the sunrise exercise, in that case we were given a week to compile a mission statement. You might be thinking that’s enough time to write a short paragraph. However once you understand the importance of those couple of lines and the bearing they will have in your life if followed through properly you realise that that even a month might not be enough to set a life defining mission statement. This should give you an idea of the amount of time required to be able to be to tap inner being and seeing what’s in your veins, the essence of our existence. We all have different backgrounds and cultural beliefs and life has put us through our own struggles and no one will ever understand or phantom what another person has been through except the individual themselves. That is why each person’s drive needs to come from within. Guidance is internal. Some might say to lead an inner centred life however for the purpose of this blog is shall refer to it as ambition.

The best way I could explain it the beautiful music that paints your vision. Ambition drives your vision, and as we know there is no direction when there is no vision. This is why this is such an important statement. By defining your life it’s to say the mission statement should always be your reference point for any major decision to be made. As each decision taken should be in line with attaining the goals which lead you towards your mission.

I try to press the importance of a mission statement, an exercise that requires time to be fully effective, however the benefit derived from a well thought out mission statement can be life changing. 

Take it to the moon; take it to the stars, wherever you want…as you don’t know what you capable of. The opportunities are limitless just takes one to have the right conviction. You have already come a long way, just need to take off that jacket and keep strutting.

The time is now….on everything

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