Power of Ambition and Dreams

0:00to a lot of people ambition is kind of a mystery the dictionary says it's an eager desire for distinction power or fame but what does that really mean well let's start with the word eager all by itself eager is kind of exciting kids are eager for their birthday parties they expect to be the center of attention get lots of presents eat too much I guess grownups are eager for birthdays too unless of course they're embarrassed at the number of candles on the cake out number their achievements but we can be eager to see a ballgame eager to see our kids in a dance recital eager to see an old friend eager to shop for a new car eager sounds like a lot of fun but do you ever hear people say they are eager to live

1:00a better life eager to have a better family eager to make a lot of money probably not and that's a problem because how I see it living a better life having a better family and making a lot of money takes an eager desire we have the remarkable ability to get exactly what we must have but there is a difference between wishes and desires we've all heard people say oh I wish I could just drop five pounds I want to be a little lighter and we've probably said it ourselves especially after a big holiday dinner of turkey and homemade pie and every other thing we can possibly stuff ourselves with in one eight-hour period of time and even though we may wish we could breathe a little easier in our clothing we have to have the desire to exercise a little more and eat a little less the I wish I could lose weight has to become I have the eager

2:05desire to lose weight I'm also sure you've heard people talk about wishing they had more money to pay the bills or take a vacation or just to take a little pressure off of life but before their lifestyle can change their wish needs to become a desire if they really desired change they wouldn't spend their evenings just watching TV and wishing they were doing something more the backbone of an eager desire to change is discipline true ambition is disciplined eager desire it's that little part within us that says if I want to be ready for that meeting tomorrow I need to finish preparing for it today if I want to make sure I can pay for my kids college education I need to start saving today if I want a better life tomorrow I need to start working on it today ambition is a minute by minute day by day mentality to have the ambition

3:10to work towards a better family life a newer car a bigger house a financially secure future you have to live it every moment if living a successful life was easy I'm sure more people would be successful if just being ambitious was enough I'm sure all of the broken perplexed people in the world wouldn't be broken perplexed while most people spend most of their lives struggling to earn a living a much smaller number seem to have everything going their way instead of just earning a living the smaller group is busily working at building and enjoying a fortune everything just seems to work out for them and here sits the much larger group wondering in awe on how life can be so unfair complicated and unjust so what's the major difference between the little group with so much and the larger group with so little despite all the factors that affect our lives

4:14like the kind of parents we have the schools we attended the part of the country we grew up in none has as much potential power for doing good as the ability to dream dreams are a projection of the kind of life we want to lead dreams can drive you dreams can make you skip over obstacles when we allow our dreams to pull us they unleash a creative force that can overpower everything in our way to unleash this power though your dreams must be well-defined a fuzzy future has little pull power well-defined dreams are not fuzzy wishes are fuzzy to really achieve your dreams to really have your future plans pull you your dreams must be vivid whatever it is that you want to do you want to do it massively have a friend who

5:19was telling me that his sales were down I said well how many phone calls you make a day he said 25 I said double them make 50 or 75 or 100 he said oh man I just too much just what do you mean too much you behind on your bills you're talking about too much you know one way to get back on your feet real quick as to miss two car payments there's no competition out here decide that you're going to push yourself most people won't do that most people give up on themselves easily you know the human spirit is powerful this nothing is powerful it's hard to kill the human spirit they asked Benjamin disraeli a man who became the head of a country the time when Jews were not allowed out after 10 o'clock they said how did you do it how do you achieve against such great arts he said nothing can resist the will of a people that will stake even their

6:21existence on the extent of their purpose for good that when you have a made up mind when you decide that you want to do something I was reading something the other day he said the power to hold on in spite of everything the power to endure this is the winner's quality the hunger the ability to face defeat again and again without giving up this is a winner's quality you have that quality within you when you're hungry you don't care about the facts you don't care about the art there's brightness in you and you've got to learn how to tune out the critics outside and the critic inside and since I'm going to do this I'm going to harness my will and I'm not going to let anything stop me I deserve this I'm going to do it until and this way I told them to start increasing your calls I said make a hundred calls a day the other thing is that if you want something

7:26you have got to be relentless you've got to learn how to become resourceful you've got to learn how to become creative when crisis struck in your life and in a Chinese language crisis mean danger but it also means opportunity and this is an opportunity for you to grow and you've got to be so relentless regardless of what comes down the pike that you're always looking for way to get over always looking for way that you can break and always looking for way that you can strike a telling blow live your life with passion with some drive you've got to watch the people the relationships that you develop how people of of kindred mindsets if you're around folk who are dead and negative all the time they will affect you you want people that around you that have smiles on their faces looking good so you've got to watch your consciousness watch your face have an

8:29uplifted expression watch your body posture all of these things affect you psychically you got to be the kind of person that you are fearless you are unstoppable and because you want stoppable because you've got power that you haven't even began to use yet you ought to yourself to release your brakes how many of you have the experience of pulling out of your drive when you're mashed on the accelerator and the car will just go on and you could move and you mash hard and it could move and then you discovered you had your emergency brakes on and then you release those emergency brakes and it goes to have you ever had that experience before most of us go through life without brakes on holding back not giving all that we have not sharing all of ourselves most of us go to our graves still holding on rather than releasing it what are some of

9:29those things that keep us from releasing it because of past experiences past defeats past pain we look back well it didn't work out then it probably won't work out now many people get confused their performances with who they are that is my speech tonight doesn't work it doesn't mean that I'm a bad speaker it means that what I did didn't work tonight and I've got to separate what I do from who I am and I've got another shot see the last chapter to your life has not been written yet and it doesn't matter about what happened yesterday it doesn't matter about the things that you've done that you feel guilty about if you wouldn't do it today you're convicting an innocent person you