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Finding Ambition And Kindling It
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Bjornson Bernales

 
By Bjornson Bernales
Published on 01/14/2008
 
Finding AmbitionOne can find ambition and can bring strong desires to attain something from certain factors. Finding ambition from the least expected factor is also likely.

Finding Ambition And Kindling It
Do you have an ambition in life? Are you that ambitious?

It is normal for every person to have an ambition in life. Some persons are passionate with their ambition while some are not. Others have made a perception of what they can become while others just think of their lives simply as long as they think they are happy.

Ambition is the driving force of many people who have the strong desire to achieve a certain goal. It pertains to the eager desire to attain something. ¡°Where ambition ends, happiness begins as quoted by an unknown source. Yes! One can find great happiness if the ambition is attained. One can paint a cheerful smile to a person that has attained his ambition in life.

Most people have ambitions which serve as motivators for them to push through with their long-term goals no matter how hard it may be and how strenuous the challenges can be along the way. There may be a lot of ambitions being written or being thought by many people every day, every hour and every minute. A person may have one or several ambitions in life. An ambition may be short-term or long-term. For an obese man, an ambition to have a well-defined musculature can be achieved after two to five months of strenuous exercise and religious diet program. For a seven-year old kid, an ambition to become the president of his country could happen after forty or so years of his life.

An ambition may vary or somewhat similar in every person. A person who has an ambition to become the president of his country is likely to find a person with the same goal at some other places. Other people who have the same ambition in life create or form an organization with an aim to form solidarity in making the joint ambition a possibility.

Ambition is the driving force of many people to work hard, to acquire knowledge needed for the attainment of their goals and to change their character. It is possible that when a person has an ambition in life he can have a change of character. His action now may be different from what he did or acted yesterday or the other day. His perception about life may be somewhat advanced or different from his peers or other people he knows now.

Where to find ambition? How to find it?

Ambition can come whenever a person encounters something. A person with ambition normally aspires a state, a character or a form that is opposite of what he is currently. Some persons living in an impoverished neighborhood may have an ambition to be rich and to live in a posh environment where poverty is inexistent. A skinny man may have an ambition to have a body similar to Arnold Schwarzenegger before the latter became a politician.

Ambition also calls for a desire to modify or to improve. For instance, a person after attaining wealth has a desire to gain power by becoming an elected politician or a CEO of a company.

Ambition can come to a person when he thinks he wants to be unique or that he wants to emulate someone. Others formulate ambitions in their life to change their physical aspect. There are factors that can kindle the ambition of a person.

The present state of a person is the common factor in the formulation of his goal and ambition. An ambition to change the present state drives a person to take challenges. It should be noted that change is applied for the better and ambition must be positive.

The mass media also influences a person to have an ambition. Many people after watching some shows featuring personalities achieving exceptional goals vow to make emulation of those goals.

We are influenced by the media. There are other people that influence us to make an ambition. Our parents and relatives may have influences in our ambitions. The current state of living that I experience right now urges me to follow my ambition. Our ambitions, no matter what they are, must help us become better persons.