Be Ambitious with your Jiu Jitsu Goals

     Ambition is a word we don't often hear. I recently had a conversation with a friend who has a very ambitious goal: to retire at the age of 40. According to him the one thing that has kept him on track is the word AMBITION. You need to have it if you want to follow through with your goals. A good way to measure how bad you want to accomplish something is to figure out how ambitious you are about achieving that goal. It doesn't matter if those goals are jiu jitsu related, wrestling related, on the mat or off the mat. What's essential is that you realize and are able to gage your ambition.
     Maybe we all need to create ambitio-meters. These meters will help us figure out if something we want to accomplish is actually a goal or just a fantasy. It's okay to have fantasies, it's great to dream about being the best when we are asleep, but we shouldn't confuse those with our goals. Goals should be pursued with a different tenacity, intensity, and ambition than anything else.
     2012 is coming to a close. Take some personal time to think about the goals you set for yourself at the beginning of the year. What were they? Did you write them down? Did you follow through with them? Did you forget about them? What does your ambitio-meter say about it?

Eliot Kelly

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BE AMBITIOUS!