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AMBITIOUS BUT AIMLESS

Everyone is said to be ambitious though but not everyone achieves their ambitions. Ambition is a

strong desire of an individual to achieve a targeted goal. To many their ambition becomes a miragewith time simply because of their aimlessness.

Many a time, it is pathetic to know that though many are impregnated with great ambitions but are

aimlessly ambitious. They never give birth to their ambitions rather some people have aborted

ambitions while many dies with their ambitions.

The questions is What could have been the cause of aborted ambitions? or Why could one

ambition go down the drain? Hundreds of reasons could be responsible for this but to mention a

few: aimlessness, wrong priority, peer pressure, misuse of technology, ignorance, procrastination,

poor time management, lack of planning, etc.

Join me as we examine a typical routine life style of a youth with lofty ambition but aimless and

directionless. Richard is a vibrant and energetic young chap. At 20years of age, he conceived an

ambition to be one of the renowned computer scientists in his generation. What a great ambition! He

secured admission into one of the best university in the country to study computer science which he

had desired. Good! Richard is a fan of Barcelona FC, a devoted member of the SUG and the Kegite

on campus. He wakes up late in the morning and retires to bed late in the night because no club

matches would ever escape him most especially when Barcelona is playing. Electricity outage could

not even stop him rather he goes to the viewing centre to watch the matches with his own money. At

his leisure, he would head to the newspaper vendors booth engaged himself in unproductive

arguments on the national daily headlines. He is ever ready to welcome every party invitation that

calls for him most especially at weekends. Come to social networks, Richard is on Twitter, Facebook,

Badoo, Instagram, WhatsApp, 2go, BBM, etc. On his cell phone are hundreds of both America and

Nigerian films. To cut the long story short, Richard graduated with third class honour with little or no

skill that could enable him realise his dream. He ended up as a half-baked graduate, who could not

write a simple program using Java, Visual Basic, C++, etc. not to talk of boasting of acquiring any

professional certifications (CCNA, Oracle, etc) in his course of study. Tell me how realistic it is for

Richard to achieve his ambition in life. I do not need a soothsayer to know that Richard has failed in

his quest to be a renowned computer scientist.

At this juncture, suffice me to say that there is nothing wrong with joining social networks, reading

the dailies, watching football matches, going to party and watching films. Setting the priority right iskey to achieving ones ambition, Richard failed to realise that he needed to make his ambition topmost

priority. Time management is essential ingredient in the balance of various activities; time must be

allotted to different task for each day bearing in mind that your ambition need more time than others.

Conclusively, I will recommend to every reader of this short and concise piece of write-up to as a

matter of necessity imbibe the following guidelines in tracking their ambition from the very first day

of conception to the point of achievement.

Documentation: endeavour to put your ambitions in Black and White and make them

accessible always.

Target: set a realisable time for accomplishing your ambitions; it serves as drive when you nolonger make significant progress.

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Mentorship: get a successful mentor on your path of ambition.

Time Management: allot time to activities that anchor on your ambition and be committed to

it. Avoid every form of distraction that could hamper your allotted time.

Evaluation: always carry out periodic evaluation to review your progress.

Training: you must channel your resources to trainings/seminar/courses as the case may be,

that could help in achieving your ambition.

Team: you need to belong to the team of people with similar ambitions.

Focus: be ever focus and resolute on your ambition.