Harvey Mackay

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Ambition puts a ladder against the sky -By Harvey Mackay

U.S.President that ambition should flourish inAmerica. return the favor. Helping people breeds Calvin Coolidge This ambition is essentially what the loyalty and support. was very skillful DeclarationofIndependencedescribedas Follow your dreams. Once you have at turning away “the pursuitofhappiness.” decided what your ultimate goal is –for any questions Let’s face it, ambition requires hard now–makeaplanandgetstarted. Itmay he didn’t like. work. Most people want to improve nothappenovernight,butitwon’thappen However,in1928, themselves, but not too many want to at all unless you take the first step. As after Coolidge workatit. Henry Ford said, “The whole secret of a issued his famous I’m a proud member of the Horatio successful life is to find outwhatis one’s “Idonotchooseto Alger Association of Distinguished destiny to do, and then do it.” And then run” statement, a Americans, named for the renowned seteven highergoals. persistent reporter author whose tales of overcoming A man picked up a hitchhiker, a looking for more adversitythroughunyieldingperseverance young fellow who looked like he’d been details followed and basic moral principles captivated traveling for a while. The two started a Coolidge to the the public in the late 19th century. His conversation, and the driver asked his doorofhis library. writings werecharacterizedbya“rags-topassengerabouthis plans forthe future.

“Exactly why don’t you want to be riches” narrative. The hitchhiker explained he was presidentagain?” the reporterasked. If you are looking for a job, part of hiking around the country, camping

Coolidgelookedthereportersquarely the process is to show your prospective and taking in the sights. Then when in the eyes and replied, “Because there is new employers that you are ambitious. he returned home he planned to make no chance foradvancement.” Youcan’tjustsayyouhaveambition; you a fortune in the tech industry. He had

Does that mean that Coolidge had no have to demonstrate it. You’ve accepted an idea that was going to make him a ambition? Hardly. He was just a man of challenges. You’ve made things happen. millionaire. few words, and he wasn’t about to waste You have a lot to be proud of. And you “Dopeoplereallydothat?” askedthe any on an overly ambitious reporter. can make acontribution to the company. driver.

Ambition was once condemned as But having ambition alone is not “Make money in the tech world? unnatural orevenimmoral inmuchofthe enough.Youhavetoknowwhatyouwant, Sure,” came the reply. world. if not specifically, at least generally. You “No,” the driver said. “I mean, do

However, in the modern world and need to know what you value. The best they take the time outfromlife insteadof particularly in America, we have come placetostartistoidentifytimeswhenyou getting to work on making their dreams to idealize self-made figures. People werehappy,proudandfulfilled,according areality?” like steel magnate Andrew Carnegie and toadvicefromtheMissionwebsite. Look There is no time like the present to oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller who, for common denominators to determine putyourambition to work. without education or status, transformed whatyourtrue values are. Mackay’s Moral: Everyone should the scale of business corporations. Or Focus on your strengths, not take some time daily to look at the road Frederick Douglass, the ex-slave who weaknesses. Everyone has weaknesses, map oftheirambition. became a learned and articulate advocate and those can’talways be overcome. But Reprinted with permission from for his people. And Elizabeth Arden, the they are only a problem if you let them nationally syndicated columnist Harvey cosmetics icon who built an empire on becomeanexcusefornotpushingforward. Mackay, author of the New York Times beauty. Whenyoulookto yourstrengths,youcan #1 bestseller “Swim With The Sharks

America was settled by generations form goals that allow you to maximize Without Being Eaten Alive,” “We Got of immigrants who came here with a yourbestpoints. Fired!...And It’s the Best Thing That burning ambition to make something Ambitious people usually know how Ever Happened to Us,” “The Mackay of themselves and their families. These to ask for help to keep growing. Maybe MBA of Selling in the Real World,” and men and women had the broadest range someone can offset your weaknesses and “Use Your Head To Get Your Foot In The ofopportunity in the world,so it’s logical help you develop your strengths. And Door.”

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