The Thought For The Day: Wholesomely Ambitious
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Inspiration: “A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.” Pearl Bailey
Be: (positive confession) I am Wholesomely Ambitious.
Do: (First Steps) Today, recognize that you are gifted and you have an obligation to share your gifts with the world. In the book, The Broken American Maleby Rabbi Shmuley Boteach he describes two types of ambition as follows: “Broken Ambition is based on the idea that the individual is unworthy and must seek external achievement in order to be distinguished…..Wholesome Ambition is predicated on the idea that all humans are born with infinite value…created in the image of God and therefore born intrinsically and infinitely unique and special.” Someone who is wholesomely ambitious doesn’t look at colleagues as competitors or view others success as infringing on their own. Free yourself from trying to prove your worthiness, realizing that, as Rabbi Boteach so precisely states “(your) existence was called forth from nothingness to add to the majesty and perfection that is God’s creation.”
Have: (Making Dreams Reality) As I focus my attention on maximizing my potential rather than deriving self-worth from competitive prowess the result of my ambition will no longer be validation but exclamation of my presence here on God’s green Earth!
Be, Do, and Have the best day of your life! God Bless You!
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