Moment 22 - How To Turn Your Ambition Into Action: Jamil Qureshi

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

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Society & Culture, Business, Education

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🗓️ 9 September 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

In these ‘Moment’ episodes of my podcast, I’ll be selecting my favourite moments from previous episodes of The Diary Of A CEO.

It’s fair to say that most people possess ambition, yet almost all of those people fail to turn it into the required action to achieve. So it begs the question, why do we fail to act upon our ambitions?

I put this question to the World Leading Psychologist and High Performance Coach Jamil Qureshi. Not only is his answer incredibly compelling, but it could be the key to unlocking your full potential.

Episode 61 - https://g2ul0.app.link/3m9ExluWnjb

Jamil:
https://twitter.com/jamil_qureshi?lang=en
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamil-qureshi-494661a/?originalSubdomain=uk

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0:00.0	If someone has an ambition to be something, they have the ambition to be, you know, a sports
0:09.0	star.
0:10.0	And you've worked with a lot of athletes and you've worked with business people or they
0:12.1	want to start a business.
0:14.2	What you tend to see it and what I tend to see in my inbox is a lot of people with intention,
0:19.5	but there seems to be something preventing that intention from turning into action or
0:24.6	like behavior into an achievement.
0:26.4	Yeah.
0:27.4	I think that you're turning ambition into achievement is the key because most people will
0:31.8	have good intentions.
0:32.8	Most people will be wishing and hoping to be better, but there's a big difference between
0:36.6	wishing and hoping and believing and executing upon it.
0:40.0	So I think that people who genuinely execute on it probably want it more for a start.
0:45.3	I'm a nasty key.
0:46.3	No one's ever wondered around the bottom of a mountain and then simply found themselves
0:50.1	at the top.
0:51.1	It does take that determination, the resilience.
0:53.8	It does take the ability to execute upon ideas to drive success.
0:58.8	So I think the key is the desire, which is fueled by having a purpose, a mission, a vision
1:04.4	towards what that end goal should look like.
1:06.8	A lot of people can't quite, they say one thing.
1:12.1	They say that their purpose is to go to the gym, for example.
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