Realistic Ambition

Author: Psychologies Magazine

We are truly delighted that you decided to purchase this book about true ambition, because at Psychologies Magazine, we believe that the link between ambition and success is the word "true." By "true," we mean what feels right for you. We'd like to start by telling you that your interest in what is true indicates that your mind is now tuned to the right frequency for achieving success. At this stage, we know you've realized your need to find the way to success, and perhaps you feel the need to learn more about the nature of ambition and the steps you need to take to make the most of your ambition. Perhaps you have one specific ambition in your life, but something makes you uncertain whether it can be achieved, or perhaps ambition for you is not based on a single goal, but on knowing how to achieve success, or perhaps you've reached a dead end in your life and want to know how to get out of this predicament and what alternatives are available to you. Likewise, perhaps your life is perfectly good, but you don't just want to live a good life; you want to know if it's possible to live an exciting and wonderful life, and what the path to that is. Therefore, there are many reasons that may have led you to buy this book, and at Psychologies Magazine, we know there's one thing all our readers have in common: they are genuinely striving to live their best life. And the best life for our readers isn't just about superficial and traditional indicators of success; it's very much about mental well-being. From the opinions of the therapists and life coaches who write for our magazine, as well as from the opinions of those we interview every month, we know that success occupies a large part of their clients' thoughts. Consequently, people get stuck feeling like they haven't achieved "enough" in their lives, or they harshly blame themselves for feeling inadequate. The question "How to be successful?" has been an important question since the 1980s. And there are many, many books that address this topic. So, what makes this book different from the rest? We've sometimes sensed, from both the experts we communicate with, the theoretical research we review, and the opinions of our readers, that there's a significant cultural shift in what constitutes success. In the 1980s, success was embodied by promising young people from the working class. Then we went through the 1990s, where success was represented by people who achieved rapid wealth, and then in the first decade of the 21st century, where success was represented by widespread consumerism. In recent years, success in our culture has been associated with the way prominent wealthy figures in society and reality TV stars behave. Now, as we slowly emerge from a period of economic recession here in the United Kingdom, we believe there is a strong desire to redefine the meaning of success and ambition.