“Dissatisfaction is a secret door leading to an important and life-giving change.”
Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Recently, I discovered that the concept of ambition, especially regarding women and especially for those who are spiritually inclined and want to help the world, has a strongly negative connotation.
Most often, ambition is understood as selfishness, vanity, self-aggrandizement, and manipulation of other people.
The opinions of various authors in articles on the topic of ambition boil down to the idea that female ambition is unsexy, unfeminine, and unattractive.
Because of this, women tend to hide their ambitions even from themselves, let alone from others.
So writing this article for me practically meant opening Pandora’s box.
But what do you do when you begin to feel that some deeply buried and hidden-from-yourself areas of life have awakened and demand your attention, and that after the transformations you’ve undergone, the Shadow has stepped out of the shadows and asks to be accepted?
What if you feel your own strength and power, as well as a desire to do something for yourself and the world?
After long doubts and wavering, you accept that ambition and aspiration have grown within you.
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You want to be not just a housewife, helping everyone around and creating warmth and coziness, but a person who creates their own worlds. And to receive from the Universe what you deserve.
This is exactly what happened to me recently.
I rejected these thoughts for a long time, understanding that this realization would fundamentally change both my life and, possibly, the lives of my loved ones.
But still, at some point, I turned to myself and said: “Well, hello, my dear Ambition! I’m glad you’ve come. I hope we’ll become friends!”
Since not much time has passed from that moment, I’ll say right away that I haven’t become Donald Trump or Julia Roberts yet.
So this article is not a success story, but my reflections on the topic of a new understanding of ambition and a description of the steps I have already taken myself and plan to take next.
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A New Understanding of Ambition
I would like to rehabilitate the very concept of ambition. I already wrote above what is usually understood by ambition.
But if you dig into dictionaries, we discover that the roots of the word come from the verb “to go,” “to walk (around).”
Therefore, in the very concept of ambition, I sense an echo of the idea that an idea appears in your life that catches you and won’t let go.
You walk around it to achieve, grasp the essence, and ultimately bring it to life.
This is how ambition differs from desire.
For example, someone has a desire to lose weight by spring, but if ambition (action) is not activated to do so, then often desires remain just desires.
Ambition is an absolutely necessary emotion in our lives; it helps us accomplish what we set out to do.
In this sense, the definition of ambition is not about becoming the “boss” and having everything that comes with the status, not to gratify your vanity, but about not being afraid to declare yourself and your desires, in order to receive opportunities for growth and the rewards from what you do.
To shout out to the entire Universe: “Hey, can you hear me? I Am! I am alive, I am open, I am doing what I love, and I want compensation for my efforts!”
And it doesn’t matter what the ambition is directed toward — whether it’s dancing salsa by the age of sixty or creating a world-class brand.
The first step will still be accepting the thought that you are ready to move forward and take action.
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The Formula for Success: Ambition + Awareness
These are the times we live in, when from every psychology magazine and every channeling channel comes the thought: “Become the Creator of your own reality!”
Let’s think about what kind of reality you can create if your ambitions are lying half-dead on the bottom shelf, along with the dust and cobwebs.
Under such conditions, can a person create a waterfall, a panda, or a beautiful life in their reality, or will they believe that this is only possible for the chosen few?
Many people engaged in spiritual practices complain that despite a lot of inner work, their cash flow decreases or dries up completely.
But remember, what was your attention focused on? What have you been doing in recent years?
Perhaps, for success to come in the material sphere, you need to direct your attention and time there?
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And now ambition enters the game — what do we want to achieve? How do we get there? What means do we use?
I am sure that it is much easier for a conscious person.
They understand and accept where they are, what they are at this point in time, feel the people around them, and know their strengths and weaknesses.
They can negotiate with their ambitions, rather than being a toy in their hands.
I offer you my formula for success, in which ambition and awareness play a significant role.
A good example of the balance between ambition and awareness is Nick Vujicic.
An Australian motivational speaker, philanthropist, writer, and singer, born with a rare genetic disorder resulting in the absence of all four limbs.
He lives a full life: he has a loving wife, a child, plays golf, surfs, and fills auditoriums with listeners.
If he can do this and so much more, why can’t we?
The further I go along the path paved by my awakened ambition, the more I understand that this is the beginning of a journey of great work and deep immersion into myself and the topics I want to pursue.
In the next article, I will share the steps I have already taken and those I plan to take.
I sincerely thank everyone who reads my articles.
Without your support and feedback, I would have been wandering in the dark, unlit by ambition, for a long time.
I wholeheartedly wish for everyone to discover within themselves a magnificent helper and creator in the form of their own conscious ambition!