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ACTIVATING YOUR AMBITION

ACTIVATING YOUR AMBITION. Did you know that you perform 95% of your actions unconsciously?. Your actions are an outcome of your engrained habits. Success and failure – whether at work or home depend on your habits. Your habits either move you toward your goals or away from them.

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ACTIVATING YOUR AMBITION

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  1. ACTIVATING YOUR AMBITION

  2. Did you know that you perform 95% of your actions unconsciously?

  3. Your actions are an outcome of your engrained habits.

  4. Success and failure – whether at work or home depend on your habits.

  5. Your habits either move you toward your goals or away from them.

  6. But habits can be hard to make … and break.

  7. How do you stop bad habits and develop new ones that are beneficial?

  8. Developing good habits depends on eight timeless principles:

  9. Principle One: Awareness - Know what you want to achieve and how you need to change in order to achieve it. N O I T I B M A

  10. It could be your behavior, attitude, skills, relationships, communications style, or your approach to what you do. N O I T I B M A

  11. You can’t improve if you don’t know what to improve. N O I T I B M A

  12. “Know thyself.” - Socrates N O I T I B M A

  13. Principle Two: Motivation – Get excited about developing yourself. N O I T I B M A

  14. Visualize the benefits of your self-development and develop an eagerness to realize them. N O I T I B M A

  15. “People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.” - Andrew Carnegie N O I T I B M A

  16. Principle Three: Belief – Develop the confidence that you can achieve your goal. N O I T I B M A

  17. Replace any cynicism with a can-do attitude. N O I T I B M A

  18. Have a plan for how you will overcome the obstacles that will confront you. N O I T I B M A

  19. “If you think you can, you are right. If you think you can’t, you are right.” – Henry Ford N O I T I B M A

  20. Principle Four: Incremental steps – Create a written plan of actions and milestones that are based on small steps. N O I T I B M A

  21. Define easily started actions . . . N O I T I B M A

  22. . . . that move you forward gradually minimizing your brain’s built-in resistance to change. N O I T I B M A

  23. “It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.” – Chinese Proverb N O I T I B M A

  24. Principle Five: Time & Energy – Confront the reality that developing yourself will take time and energy. N O I T I B M A

  25. Determine what you must stop doing in order to have time for your plan of actions. N O I T I B M A

  26. Identify what you need to do to have the energy your development will require. N O I T I B M A

  27. “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot.” - Michael Althsuler N O I T I B M A

  28. Principle Six: Initiation – Start your self-development journey under the optimal circumstances. N O I T I B M A

  29. Plan around any events, projects, holidays or other factors . . . N O I T I B M A

  30. . . . that could make your journey more difficult. N O I T I B M A

  31. “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” - Lao Tzu N O I T I B M A

  32. Principle Seven: Others – Involve others in your journey. N O I T I B M A

  33. Others provide insight, encouragement, resources and accountability. N O I T I B M A

  34. No one is successful on their own. N O I T I B M A

  35. “Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.” - Mark Twain N O I T I B M A

  36. Principle Eight: Normalcy – Apply yourself until your new behavior is a habit. N O I T I B M A

  37. Practice your new behavior until it is routine. N O I T I B M A

  38. It should become as natural as smiling when you are happy. N O I T I B M A

  39. “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” - Jim Rohn N O I T I B M A

  40. Put these eight principles to work and YOU can do anything. N O I T I B M A

  41. For more information, see: www.activatingyourambition.com. N O I T I B M A

  42. ACTIVATING YOUR AMBITION presented by Alpine Link Corporation, www.alpinelink.com. N O I T I B M A

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