Ambition - Good And Not So Good

How can we be sure our ambition is following each one's StrengthBank® - the plan for each one’s bank of strengths that will prosper and not harm, give hope and a future? A true ambition or life purpose, that is to live the fullest to the StrengthBank® given you, is usually specific and fixed and will stand the test of scrutiny of motives of your heart and will always bring out the best, not the GONE BAD in you. When conversations occur whether positive or negative each one can teach a forward direction rather than defeat you. The vision you have always known as yours never goes away. It is brighter at some times than others; it is always present.

By contrast, a wrong or "mean spirited" desire, a wrong reason for choosing a particular field of work or a disrespectful way to treat others fails to meet the "move forward" criteria. These latter are a result of having only a non-specific sense rather than a specific discovery of the exact bank of strengths born in you, of what each wants from life or the your yearningings. Latest fad or "get ahead mantras change easily as circumstances shift or time passes.

Ambition to accomplish great things is in itself not a destructive force unless it comes from the wrong idea of reality, real reality not the "I made it up" one. This life is successfully lived for each person as it lines up with the purpose for which each is born, that is, for each one’s bank of strengths - StrengthBank®.

Mentor teens! They do not understand ambition when they shoot each other, are prey to drug traffickers or think having a baby will bring them self-worth.