Goals, ambition and failing

So, after some bad months financially, today I decided to check some motivating stuff. Because I like to think "outloud" these will be a sort of summary.

• Don't think in terms of goals

People say "goals" when they mean things that they wish to do, but don't really anticipate on doing. Thats why its important to think in terms of vision for yourself and the things that matters to you.

When you make and commit to a vision, you in a way write up your destiny. It does not matter if you fail on a goal. If you keep pushing and pushing you will get there. Thats what people mean by "It's not how hard you can hit, its about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward".

Most motivational videos are based on this. They are motivating you to push forward, to not give up. But give up on what? Push where? To your vision. The kicks and hits that you get, those are all the failed goals, life problems and short term failures.

• Get ambition

Hard work is what keeps stuff going, but ambition.. ambition is what makes stuff happen. We have this civilization because of ambition.

Lots of people work hard. At the end of their workday they come home and have some fun. Thats it. They have bread on their table, maybe even some toys. Ambition is wanting more. Don't misunderstand ambition for greed. Greed is when you are not humble. Greed is when you want materialistic things without being humble about it.

Ambition is when you don't really care that much for the materialistic things, but you want to "have more" in terms of self development, in terms of being humble. Its the awareness that life can be better. Ambition is born when you understand that and humbly consider what you think about the fact that you can live better. Thats how I see it.

• Know your limits

It clicked for me today - failure is reaching your limits. Its when you use a skillset or knowledge you have and don't get the results you anticipated.

I think the most important thing to achieve your vision is to never ever adjust your vision to your limits. If you vision is to be super wealthy, don't change it just because you can't get something done, don't have some knowledge or {put any other excuse here}. Adjust your limits, adjust your skillset to your vision. This means getting smarter if you need to. If you absolutely cannot get over your limits, change them. Figure out another way you can get past a big task that will lead you closer to your vision.

If you fail, it means you now know what are the next steps to take. Adjust your limits or change them. Thats why failure is not to be feared or avoided.


I hope someone can make sense of this and finds any motivation to go on with achieving whatever vision there is to achieve.