it's where you're going, not where you've been. ambition. defined: an eager or strong desire to achieve something. goal: the purpose toward which an endeavor is directed; an objective. difference between the two? i think goals are something you set up as mile markers to achieve on the path to something. ambition is more broad, more of a bigger picture thing if you will. ambition is "i want to get home." goal is "reach the emerald city, get an audience with oz, kill wicked witch."



a goal could be to finish college, to work for three years successfully, to make a million dollars. an ambition could be to become a CEO of your very own toy creation company. or maybe ambitions are more dreamy. i like to think of ambitions as more dreamy. i'm not sure if this is the correct definition of ambition but for me that's what it is. not so broad as just "i want to be happy." but broad enough that it can encompass a large majority of your potential goals.



now that i'm part of the working world -- you like how after five days on a job i'm fronting like the poster child for the workers union? -- i see much more clearly that goals and ambitions should be laid out. once you are in a place where you have a title and a role, you naturally wonder where you want to be. what is the goal? to get promoted? to get out of here in a few? whatever it is, goals are easy to set once you're in a goal orientated environment. and naturally, with so many goals popping up before you, you gotta question where your ambitions lie. do i want to be here eight to five for two years? um no. where do i want to be? nobody has real answers to this question and i don't lament or worry about not having any answers. why are people overly pre-occupied with direction? where you go will happen. it maybe takes an effort and open eyes and ears but incessantly worrying about the future strips the present of any magic it might currently have.



after all. dorothy goes home, finds that shit boring as all hell and goes back to oz to live. if you didn't know that you need to read the entire oz series. the point is, the future never turns out the way you think it will so why put this huge ambition up as a measure of your success or failure?