Ambition

bypossumlane

2.4K followers

9 years ago

I have always been ambitious and it has caused some grief along life's path. I have found that people with big dreams have big hearts and a huge capacity for work. I have even been accused of being a perfectionist, a workaholic and one of my children even suggested that I annoyed them because "everything you do you do well". Fortunately or unfortunately I was brought up by a father that said "if you don't work you don't eat" and that made a n indelible impression on me as a young child. I am sure my Dad knew all about that subject having been through a war, and a depression, where food was at a premium. No jobs therefore no money to buy what little food there was, standing in line at the soup kitchen to get a feed, so I guess I was well educated in the work ethic which served me well with 6 and then 7 children to support on my own. Ambitious people are often criticised by people who are not living their dream, do not know how to go about achieving their own dreams, or do not have the get up and go to do so or are just plain lazy wanting everything tipped into their lap without any effort on their part. Life is not like that - you only get out of life what you put in and the more you put in the more you get in return. These people who criticise you while you are climbing your mountain love to boast, once you get there, and are all too keen to acknowleldge that they know or knew you. Has it inspired them to get off their derryaire and do the same thing? sadly most of the time no - they would prefer to sit and criticse or whinge and whine about the bad hand life has dealt them. The opportunities are there for all who dare. Ambitious people have ideals but those ideals change as their goals change, the mountains get higher, and the further you grow along the road to success the more there is to conquer.. We start off with wanting just enough to pay the bills - then it is a car or a house and then it is holidays etc and on and on it goes. Life is a journey and nothing breeds success like success and mixing with like minded people bouncing ideas and thoughts off one another - helping one another. Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won't so that they can spend the rest of their life like most people can't. Anything worthwhile takes time, patience, dedication, perspiration, trial and error and a lot of pure hard grind but in the end all that pain and heartache, making mistakes, learning new avenues to apply will pay off in the end and those of us that have been fortunate enough to land here at Wealthy Affiliate have the whole world at our feet and I for one am going to grab this wonderful opportunity to achieve my goals, dreams and aspirations and if I can do it at my age when time is really limited for me, the buck stops with me - I am the only one that can reach the goals I have set for myself How much more can the younger generation set themselves up beautifully for the future with just a little W O R K. Everything has a price and if the price of your success comes at the expense of a social life for a short time it is well worth the effort but only YOU can do this for yourself - no one else knows what goes on inside your head - no one else knows what your aspirations, dreams and goals are so the buck stops with you - You have to do the work and if you do the rewards will come. They will not come overnight as I see some people expecting but they will come.