Servant of Ambition

A huge dream is a wish. It is similar to wanting something without acting on it. Filter it by turning them into a clear vision. A vision sets appropriate tactical and strategic decisions for bringing the vision to life. They scare you, if they are big enough. The huge goal has to be specific. Like everything else in life, a specific goal improves your chances of accomplishing it. It is a driver of self-actualization that makes you achieve them.

A specific goal sets the standard. It gives you intimate knowledge about the goals’ requirements. It enlightens you about anything irrelevant. For example, walking around is irrelevant to writing. It is arguably a brainstorming session in the process. Launch the perfectionist part of you that sets the standard of things you need to do in order to achieve specified objectives.

Jessica Stillman wrote about good and bad perfectionists in her article “Are You The Good or The Bad Kind of Perfectionist” A perfectionist sets a standard for what they want to accomplish. It is not a matter of what the goal is, but how to accomplish it. It separates you from competitors and others in the same niche. Be a perfectionist, but beware of your kind.

Two kinds are relevant – the good and bad. A bad one sets a standard so high that it is almost impossible to achieve the goal. He/she worries about making mistakes and letting people down. Work in such unhealthy way that weakens the goal’s productivity. This is not helpful in any way. Things will go wrong, people will make mistakes and let you down – accept that.

The good perfectionist effectively works on what they plan to accomplish. Nothing is perfect, but they know when something is good enough. They know their goals. They are constantly giving it their best. The ambition is driven by setting high standard and proactively work towards them. The main goal is ambitiously dividend into as many as possible, and accomplished one after the other. This kind of perfectionist maintain the goodness of goal achievements, while postponing any debilitated effects of burnout. Soul search about the kind of standards you set – know when goals are impossible to accomplish – and find how to accomplish them.

Use the standard to know path to achievement. A tactical and strategic way to accomplishing objectives will normally emerge when walking through the overall path to it. It helps determine best tactics and strategies for accomplishing the most challenging part. Knowing how we want something tells us the tactics and strategies for getting it. This is based on facts – not assumption – about what is happening in the market, prior to taking action.

As the goal progresses, you enhance your strategic skills that develops as you improve. The goal is stable, but the sub-goals upgrades as you progress. You make little changes to smoothen process. It can be a new idea that facilitate productivity increments. The best parts are know what you want, how you want it, and path to getting it is taking action.

You start acting. You serves your goal. If the ambitious goal is to run a great company, then define greatness. This definition is based on your understanding of it. It tells you where you are going. That is what you serves. Serving this can helps improve your decision process. It motivates and reminds you of where you are going and why you are doing what you do. A servant only serves the ambitious objectives, which was explained in “Only Serve Your Ambition”.

In conclusion, set a goal that is so big that it scares you. Know the necessary standard you need to set to accomplish it. Know the sub tactical and strategic goals you need to accomplish to meet the overall goal. Accomplish and serve them. These progressive goal accomplishments makes you a servant of ambition.