Goal or Ambition

 What an ambition is . I believe all of us know what an ambition is. When I was a child I was being asked what my goal was & I used to answer as Doctor. But I am not a doctor  neither I can be. "That is the reason Now I realised that – An ambition without a plan is just like a wish." So  the ambition to become a doctor was just a wish not an ambition. So I could not fulfil it. To give an example of how  to differentiate between Ambition and wish. I want to loose weight is a wish where as I want to loose 1 KG in 1 months can be one ambition or Goal. So ambition can be defined clearly.

An ambition is a desire for personal achievement. It provides motivation and determination.Ambition is incomplete with out concentration. On the best sunny day, the most powerful magnifying glass will not light paper if you keep moving the glass. But if you focus and hold it, the paper will light up. That is the power of concentration.

A man was travelling and stopped at an intersection. He asked an elderly man, "Where does this road take me?" The elderly person asked, "Where do you want to go?" The man replied, "I don't know." The elderly person said, "Then take any road. What difference does it make?"

How true. When we don't know where we are going, any road will take us there.

A farmer had a dog who used to sit by the roadside waiting for vehicles to come around. As soon as one came he would run down the road, barking and trying to overtake it. One day a neighbour asked the farmer "Do you think your dog is ever going to catch a car?" The farmer replied, "That is not what bothers me. What bothers me is what he would do if he ever caught one." Many people in life behave like that dog who is pursuing meaningless goals.

Suppose you have all the football eleven players, enthusiastically ready to play the game, all charged up, and then someone took the goal post away. What would happen to the game? There is nothing left. How do you keep score? How do you know you have arrived? Enthusiasm without direction is like wildfire and leads to frustration. Goals give a sense of direction. Would you sit in a train or a plane without knowing where it was going? The obvious answer is no. Then why do people go through life without having any goals?

This says how important goal is in life. Make your life a mission….not an intermission. ..

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”

 "Ambition is the last refuge of failure."