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The Six Principles of Ambition

Sunday, 20th November 2011

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You can always recognise when someone is ambitious but how on earth do you actually describe the characteristics that makes a person ambitious? Last week I listened to a bit of Jim Rohn’s The Power of Ambition and in his typical enlightening style Jim led me to the Six Principles of Ambition. Here’s what they are…

1. Positive Self Direction

Jim says that it’s important Knowing who you are and where you want to go in life because this leads to accumulating the knowledge and being prepared for opportunities that come your way.

2. Self Reliance

Jim says that it’s important to take responsbility for your own life. It’s about taking responbility for whatever happens to you and knowing that you have made the conscious decisions that have led you to where you are today. He says pay attention to the fact that whatever is happening in your life right now is the direct result of your activities. If you don’t like where you are at today, change your activities!

3. Self Discipline

Jim says this is “ambition at the daily level”. Doing whatever it takes to get you where you want to be at the end of the day. This is such an important principle because if you study all of the great achievers in the world they all would have this one habit embedded deep within them.

4. Self Enterprise

Jim says consistently being able to create opportunity is a wonderful skill. Self enterprise allows you to be aware of opportunities that enter into your life and provides you with skills to make those opportunities work for you. This is the real essence of Entrepreneurship and how powerful it can be in turning your dreams into reality.

5. Working with others

Success is rarely a solo event and you achieve greater levels of success when you perform a service to help others succeed. As a great businessman Jim was very big on service. The most successful businesses in the world are the ones that perform a service to others of great importance.

6. Self Appreciation

You need to appreciate your accomplishments because they give light to your potential. This is something I see many great achievers struggle with because we constantly compare ourselves to those around us.

I wrote more about this in “Me vs You”. We each have our own set of challenges and we do not have the right to compare our level of success to others because we don’t know what their challenges might have been. We do have the right to be inspired by people better than us because in life there are many out there who compare themselves to us because they feel we are better than them. And it’s up to us to be inspired but continue to inspire others along our journey.



So those are The Six Principles of Ambition through the eyes of the greatest business philosopher - Jim Rohn. In closing Jim says that we know when we have become ambitious when other people describe us as having “focussed concentration, resilience and integrity”. What a powerful achievement to aspire to.

The Challenge

So this week I challenge you to adopt The 6 principles of Ambition and roll out during your week utilising them as much as you can. Practice them over and over again and you’ll see beautiful things will start to happen around you.

Dream, Build, Inspire, Lead!

AJ~

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