Real Ambition (eBook)
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-0-85708-665-5 (ISBN)
What kind of successful person do you want to be? If you think being ambitious is a negative trait, it's time to think again, Real Ambition will help you understand why some people achieve their ambitions and exactly what is getting in the way of yours, We will give you a clue - it's YOU!
Packed full of scientific evidence and cutting edge global research Real Ambition offers five simple secrets to success, giving you the tools to keep track of your dreams every day,
Written in association with Psychologies Magazine the leading magazine for intelligent people, covering work, personal development and lifestyle issues Real Ambition is:
- Packed full of tips, techniques and advice to help achieve your dreams
- Based on scientific evidence and cutting edge global research
- Rigorous with credible content presented in a light and accessible manner
- Inspirational yet down to earth and practical
Inspirational and motivational, yet practical and down-to-earth, Real Ambition provides expert guidance and a roadmap to achieving your dreams,
Psychologies Magazine (Kent, UK, https://psychologies,co,uk/work) is the leading magazine (print and digital) for intelligent people, covering work, personal development and lifestyle issues and striving to help its readers learn about and understand themselves and the world around them,
What's stopping you from realising your ambitions? What kind of successful person do you want to be? If you think being ambitious is a negative trait, it's time to think again. Real Ambition will help you understand why some people achieve their ambitions and exactly what is getting in the way of yours. We will give you a clue it's YOU! Packed full of scientific evidence and cutting edge global research Real Ambition offers five simple secrets to success, giving you the tools to keep track of your dreams every day. Written in association with Psychologies Magazine the leading magazine for intelligent people, covering work, personal development and lifestyle issues Real Ambition is: Packed full of tips, techniques and advice to help achieve your dreams Based on scientific evidence and cutting edge global research Rigorous with credible content presented in a light and accessible manner Inspirational yet down to earth and practical Inspirational and motivational, yet practical and down-to-earth, Real Ambition provides expert guidance and a roadmap to achieving your dreams.
Psychologies Magazine (Kent, UK, https://psychologies.co.uk/work) is the leading magazine (print and digital) for intelligent people, covering work, personal development and lifestyle issues and striving to help its readers learn about and understand themselves and the world around them.
Foreword by Suzy Greaves, Editor, Psychologies v
Introduction 1
1: What Does Ambition Mean to You? 7
Chapter 1: Redefining ambition and success 9
Take The Test: How do you define success? 22
Chapter 2: What do you really want? 29
Take The Test: What are your unmet needs? 48
Chapter 3: How does real ambition feel? 53
Take The Test: What ambition would make you feel fulfilled? 68
2: What's Stopping You From Achieving Your Ambitions? 75
Chapter 4: Are some people more likely to succeed? 77
Chapter 5: What's getting in the way of your success? 91
Take The Test: How do you sabotage yourself? 107
Chapter 6: Ambition Traps 113
3: How Can You Achieve Your Ambitions? 135
Chapter 7: Can you learn to be ambitious? 137
Chapter 8: What kind of successful person do you want to be? 149
Chapter 9: Five simple secrets to success 165
Chapter 10: Keeping track of your ambitions every day 183
What Next? 197
About Psychologies 199
References 201
INTRODUCTION
We're so pleased you decided to buy this book about Real Ambition because at Psychologies magazine we believe that the link between ambition and success is the word real. And by real we mean what feels good for you. We want to kick off by telling you that your interest in real ambition indicates that your mind is tuned to the right wavelength for determining your success.
At this point we know that you have established a need to find out how to achieve success. Perhaps you sense that you need to learn more about how ambition works and what steps you can take to harness your own ambition. You may have one particular ambition in your life, but maybe something makes you feel unsure about whether it's possible to achieve this. Or maybe ambition for you isn't based on a singular mission and instead is about figuring out how to be successful. Or you might be at a dead end and want to know how to get out of this and what else might be possible. You may even be doing perfectly OK, but don't want to live an OK life -– you want to know if and how it's feasible to achieve an amazing life.
So there are all sorts of reasons why you might have bought this book. At Psychologies magazine we know that the one thing our readers have in common is that they are striving for better lives all round. A better life for our readers isn't just about external and conventional marks of success. A better life is as much about inner wellbeing. We know from the therapists and life coaches who write for us, as well as those we interview every month for the magazine, that success is a huge preoccupation for their clients. People get caught up in feeling they haven't achieved ‘enough', or they beat themselves up because they feel they are inadequate.
How to be successful has been a big question since the eighties. There are countless books about this. So what makes Real Ambition any different? We have for some time sensed both from the experts we have access to, the academic research we follow, and the feedback from our readers, that there is a major cultural shift in what constitutes success. We've had the ‘yuppies' (young upwardly mobile) of the eighties, the high-flyers of the nineties, and the mass consumerism of the noughties. In more recent years, success in our culture has come to be associated with how high-flying city figures and reality TV stars behave. But now that we're slowly exiting a recession in the UK, we believe that there's a strong sense of wanting to rewrite the meaning of ambition and success.
Real Ambition aims to help you create your own meaning of success and to encourage you to create a model of ambition that suits you. This involves first understanding who you are at this point.
We believe that ambition is that desire to make the inner leap to be your best self so that you can live your best life. Instead of ‘making do', it's all about the doing. And of course that comes down to courage. Our job is to help you find that courage, show you how to harness and maximize it so that you don't turn back, or give up. Right now it's like you're looking at a map, your eyes are on your destination, and you're questioning the transport. We want to encourage you to look further than your destination, to create a journey to that point that enriches your life from day one, a journey that's fascinating and opens up your mind constantly.
If you have formed the belief that ambition is about being a certain personality type, and you think this book will be about becoming that personality – well, we don't believe this is the case. Ambition is not about those people you read about, or certain people you know. We won't be advocating that you must fake being anything you're not.
Healthy ambition and a successful life are based on feeling fulfilled: it's about what makes you want to get-up-and-go every day, what makes you feel the best you. It's about knowing what really nourishes your life. And that might very well be different to what nourishes (and inspires) all your friends, your colleagues, your family and everyone else around you.
The foundation of healthy ambition is the belief that you deserve the best life for you, and then creating a plan to make it happen. It's about knowing how to be equipped so that you can follow the plan or, if necessary, change the plan to a better one. The plan won't be in your head. Think in terms of planning an adventure that you fully intend to enjoy.
How To Use This Book
We've divided this book into three parts:
- What Does Ambition Mean to You?
- What's Stopping You from Achieving Your Ambitions?
- How Can You Achieve Your Ambitions?
In Part 1 you'll gain an overview of ambition and success in our culture, how this is changing, and what this means to you. You may discover that you're more successful than you think. You'll be inspired to create your own model of success rather than accepting what's given to you by the media, celebrity culture or people around you.
In Part 2 we'll help you understand why you feel you're not achieving your dreams and how to turn things around. In Part 3 we show you how to engage your mind to go from goals to action and give you advice that you can apply in every area of your life. We don't want to keep you waiting until the final part to start making things happen though, so throughout the book you'll find tips designed to act as ambition boosters that you can try out immediately to help fuel your dreams.
At the end of Chapters 1–3 and 5 there are tests so that you can assess yourself. We've also included key ‘Ask Yourself' questions for you to reflect on, so that you can relate each chapter to your personal experience. You will also find case studies from real people (with names and identifying circumstances changed). We chose these case studies so that you can see how ambition and success differ from person to person.
We carefully selected a panel of five leading experts to interview, each one with a different specialization, perspective and background. Two of our experts started their professional lives as actors, two have business backgrounds and one is an academic. Choosing a mix of experts is always exciting because although we know the individual experts well, we have no idea how what they say individually on the subject will gel collectively. We set out to give you a mix that will maximize the advice available to you. What turned out to be fascinating for us is that all our experts were on the same page as us: our culture is changing to one based on being individuals, rather than toeing a line fed to us.
We hope you will be inspired to believe that you can create your vision of success, that you will take the actions to make this happen, and that the process will be rewarding.
The Experts Interviewed For Real Ambition
Kele Baker, mind-body-movement coach
Kele Baker helps people take control of their health and wellbeing by teaching body awareness, coordination, relaxation, self-discovery and self-healthcare through tai chi, qigong, the Alexander Technique and mindfulness.
She is a former co-director of Kensington Dance Studio with over 20 years' experience teaching and choreographing for stage and television. Baker is the author of Strictly Come Dancing: Step By Step Dance Class (BBC Books) and director of the Life Force Chi Centre.
http://www.lifeforcechicentre.com
Chris Baréz-Brown, creative and business beatnik
Chris Baréz-Brown and his consultancy Upping Your Elvis show corporate teams how to unleash their creativity for more successful branding and a happy workplace. His background includes helping turn Carling Black Label into a billion-pound brand.
Baréz-Brown is the author of three bestselling books: How to Have Kick Ass Ideas (Harper Collins), Shine. How to Survive and Thrive at Work (Penguin), Free! Love Your Work, Love Your Life (Penguin) and the latest Wake Up! (Penguin Life, 2016).
@BarezBrown
Dannie-Lu Carr, creativity specialist, communications consultant and creative practitioner
Dannie-Lu Carr works with individuals and organizations on creativity and communications. She has worked with a wide range of corporate, media, PR, education and public sector companies, from Bloomberg through to the NHS.
Carr is the author of Brilliant Assertiveness (Pearson). She writes and directs for her production company Flaming Poppy, and runs acting workshops. Following a TEDx talk in 2015 she formed Reorientations to campaign for cultural change in the arts.
@DannieLu
John Purkiss, headhunter and coach
John Purkiss runs workshops and coaches individuals on personal branding and personal development. He is the co-founder of Purkiss&Company where he recruits chief executives, finance directors and other board members.
Purkiss is the co-author of three books including Brand You – Turn Your Unique Talents into a Winning Formula (Pearson) which has been translated into five...
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 2.8.2016 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Bewerbung / Karriere |
| Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Planung / Organisation | |
| Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management | |
| Schlagworte | Achieving goals • achieving more • ambition research • ambition tests • ambition traps • Becoming Successful • Business & Management • Business Self-Help • Climbing the Ladder • confidence and ambition • creating success • defining achievement • defining success • how to get ahead • Leadership Training • learning ambition • life goals • Meaning of Success • professional advancement • professional development • Psychologies ambition • psychologies magazine • Ratgeber Wirtschaft • Real Ambition • secrets to success • Self confidence • Self Help • Self Improvement • Self Management • setting goals • tracking ambitions • Wirtschaft /Ratgeber • Wirtschaft u. Management |
| ISBN-10 | 0-85708-665-0 / 0857086650 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-85708-665-5 / 9780857086655 |
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