You cannot hope to catch a shark with only a fishing line and a hook. This is not about fishing. In life, the size of your dream and your ambition should reflect in the size of the efforts you put into place. As a student for example, you cannot be hoping to graduate with flying colours but you just study your books occasionally and you even allow distractions to take over you. If you want to achieve academic excellence as a student, then you have to give in your best, take your studies seriously, and go even beyond your limit. If you have a big dream, you should also follow it up with big actions, so as to achieve it.
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Everyone has one ambition or the other. People often dream of the kind of life that they want to live, like financial freedom, recognition, better life, etc. They even imagine great things in their mind, and how they will get higher in life. But there is a very important truth that you should not forget; your efforts must have to match with your ambition. If you want to have a big result, then your efforts must also be big and consistent. You cannot be putting in small and inconsistent effort then expect to have a big result. Your output is a direct reflection of the quality of your input.
It is true that ambition is powerful. This is because it gives direction, motivation, and purpose to someone. It is actually what moves you to want more out of life. However, having just ambition alone without doing anything about it will just make it to end up as a mere wish. Not just putting in efforts, but putting the required and right amount of efforts. What is separating where you are now from where you are going to is the level of efforts you are putting in place. Everyone has one dream or the other, but why is it that not all of them become actualised? What makes the difference is the kind of work that they have put in their dreams.
You cannot desire an extraordinary result, yet maintaining an ordinary habit. For every extraordinary result you seek, you must be willing to do something extra; something beyond the ordinary. No one becomes outstanding by doing what everyone else does in the same way. If you want success, for example, you have to put in discipline, consistency, sacrifices, in order to achieve it. Wanting to achieve something great, yet not willing to put in the required effort, will only lead to frustration. If your actions and your efforts do not match with your goal and your dreams, then success may be slow or may even be totally nonexistent.
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Effort is a valid and practical expression of your ambition. How serious you are with your goals will definitely show in your actions. If you have high ambitions and big dream, then your efforts must be big to complement it. Imagine someone who wish to become a professional boxer, yet they are not training, no exercise, no gym, nothing at all, how will they become a professional boxer? Or someone who wants to become a footballer, yet they do not go to the field to train, how will the dream become reality. If you want to succeed in life and in your own field of endeavours, then you have to make a decision to do what is necessary even if it is not convenient at the moment.
While putting in efforts into your ambition, you have to understand that you need sacrifices, discipline, consistency, and effort. It may also require you to take risks and push yourself through the limit. You may also need to give up certain comforts, avoid distractions, and other habits that may not support your goals. Even when others are relaxing, you may be working extensively. While others are making excuses, you will be pushing yourself to making progress. You have to identify what truly matters to you, and then invest your time, energy, and resources towards achieving it. Finally, you have to avoid the activities that does not move you forward, and the things that do not contribute positively to you.
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