Friday Four: Four Tips to Help Your Ambitions Fly
Friday, February 15, 2008
Career building goals for visionaries like the Wright Brothers do not necessarily materialize out of thin air. They work on it, and their passion for their vision in life matches the intensity of their ambitions. If you are interested in building your career around revolutionizing the world as we know it, here are four tips to help your ambitions fly.
1. Self-study can make or break you. The Wright Brothers themselves were not trained engineers, but they invented the mechanism that revolutionized aviation! If your career-building goals revolve around something for which you have passion but in which you do not necessarily have training, you can always study for it.
2. Never give up 'just because.' Career building opportunities present themselves to you every day! Just because one person says your ambitions are crazy does not necessarily mean it is. You need faith in yourself and your vision in life, and if you should not let some corporate-type pencil pusher tell you that it is not going to happen for you without asking for and understanding his or her reasons why they think so.
3. Persistence is key. People with ambition never give up, and they never stop pushing. The late John "Scatman John" Larkin had his monster hit, Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop), at age 52! Before topping the music charts worldwide, he had to overcome his lifelong stutter. Career building success can come at any point; it is never too late to fine-tune your vision in life. What matters is how much you keep at it.
4. Know when to shout for help. When it comes to building your career, you can sometimes be so blinded by the passion that they fail to see their shortcomings - where other people are excellent. Always be willing to work with someone on bringing your vision to life. Ambitious people who succeed - the Wright Brothers and Thomas Edison among them - always have people around them who help make it happen.
Remember: ambition is a good thing.
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