The Ambition Mindset

For most of us, what’s important is pushing ourselves towards success. For most of us, it’s about winning the game. For most of us, it’s about bringing great results.

As long as we are pursuing healthy ambition that matches our interests and ideals, we don’t end up burning ourselves. What is important is not to share the goal with anyone, so that the mind doesn’t trick us to think that it’s already done. Or else, we might not put in the actual hard work which is necessary.

As an ambitious person it’s important for us to act with purpose yet keep the room open for discovering, exploring and experimenting. Having an open talk with strangers yet important people helps in crafting our strategy.

Beginning execution

The key is two words ‘Just Start’. Execution is the key to moving towards achieving your goal. To practice our skills it’s important to start, rather thinking and analysing how to make them more perfect before revealing them.

Our ownership and originality to our thoughts gets us the reward which we crave. Hard work, passion and not comparing our self with others are the best way to find out if we are heading in the right direction or not.

Always being conscious keeps us close and grounded and keeps us closer to our main goal.

Handling anxiety with ambition

Practice the ‘Power of Pause’. Holding yourself strong and silent in the moment of anxiety actually helps in curing the anxiety triggers, anger and helplessness.

The key to achieving ambitions

It’s important to get coached until we are alive. That is why kings are made and trained by the kingmakers before becoming one. It’s important to be coached by an expert to keep their wheel of life in full circle. Humility gets a person their coach. Only the people who wish to get coached can be coached. A good coach is fiery, honest, and accountable; a good coach never says things to please his/her coachee. Having a good coach is a must to grow faster and better for leaders.

So, if you have the fire in the belly, a desire in your heart – fueled by ambition and passion, with a careful strategy and right mindset there is no stopping you from achieving success, whatever that may mean for you.

Dr. Anamika Chawhan Member since May 16, 2020

Dr. Anamika Chawhan is a Ph.D. from IIT Bombay, India. She is a life coach, mother, wife, trainer of professionals, and author of two upcoming & two published books. She started her career as an MBA in 2009, and soon discovered that most of her clients were experiencing a significant degree of dissatisfaction in life; stress, anxiety and unhappiness. She could relate with the struggles which made her set out on the journey to find out what makes people unhappy, and to create something which makes people excited about living their life. Read more about her and her work on http://anamikachawhan.com/