The 4 Ways to Power Your Ambition
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
4.0 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Listen to episode 820 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The 4 Ways to Power Your Ambition. Edited and adapted from Stepping Stones to Success by Horace D. Hitchcock.
Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The world is a world of variation and change. Each stone, plant, animal, and human being is a unit in itself. But human beings (with our physical, mental, and moral qualities) are a world in ourselves, capable of mastering the things of nature in a manner that will bring us health, happiness, and contentment.
How can you cultivate your ambition? The same way you would cultivate a plant — by giving it nourishment and forcing it to grow up as destined by its own nature. The methods of cultivation you can use may be outlined as follows....
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| 0:45.8 | Today's reading was edited and adapted from |
| 0:48.7 | Stepping Stones to Success by Horace D. Hitchcock, published in 1916. |
| 1:04.4 | There can be no accomplishment in life without ambition. It's the great and all-powerful incentive to succeed. Ambition is the dynamo of human |
| 1:16.6 | energy. It comes from within and is confined to the soul's own limitations. You have ambition, |
| 1:26.6 | and so has everyone, to some degree. |
| 1:30.6 | It is that something deep down in your own nature that says, |
| 1:35.3 | Go you and do it. |
| 1:38.7 | Ambition and determination are playmates. |
| 1:42.3 | Success itself comes surely and quickly to those who have ambition, backed by |
| 1:48.0 | an unwavering determination. Your aim in life is to accomplish something, and that something must |
| 1:56.3 | be the combination of your opportunity and ambition. Your aim is to do something well, and to do it well you must have force behind every stroke. |
| 2:08.6 | Few put a stone into the ground, it will obey the law of gravitation and remain there forever. |
| 2:16.6 | When you bury an acorn, it will accede to a higher |
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