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Ambition Creating Happiness
- Could you be happy without money? Would having a lot of money make you happier?
- What do you push yourself to do and why?
- What are the basic requirements for you to feel good about your life?
- Do you think you are more or less content that other people?
- What things did you dislike doing in the past that you are now glad that you did?
- How much you you think these things really matter, in terms of happiness/success in life:
- who your parents werehow much money you havewhat you physically look likehow much you are like or different from those around you
- What is your relationship with failure?
- How has increasing technology and material comfort affected our spiritual lives?
Fame Ambition Questions
- Who do you idolize? Why does that person appeal to you? Which of his/her traits could you adopt as your own?
- What celebrity do you envy? Why do you suppose you feel strongly about this person?
- How much do you need outside credit/ reassurance for yourself and your accomplishments? Do things count less for you if nobody knows about them?
- What do you suppose you would gain if you became very famous tomorrow? What would you lose?
Value Choices Around Ambition
- Would you rather be a tortured genius or a happy average person?
- What do you value in your life that money cannot buy? What do you wish you had more of in your life that money cannot buy?
- If you could be only one, would you rather be rich, famous or loved?
- Would you rather be very attractive/ not very intelligent or very intelligent/ not very attractive?
- What about for your spouse?For your child?
- How do you define a successful person?
- What makes you think a person is lazy?
What Lies Beneath Your Ambitions
- Do you think you are better than some other people? Do you think some other people are better than you? What makes you feel the way you do?
- In what ways do you define yourself by your material possessions?
- What is the biggest force driving your ambitions?
- What desires or ambitions did you have in the past that you have given up?
- Have you let go and accepted that these things will not happen?If not, how can you get at least some aspects of these things into your present life?
- What are the nagging disappointments in your life? What would it take to resolve them?
- How could you be more content/ accepting of the things you cannot change?
Vocational Ambition Questions
- What gets you excited about life?
- What activities make you lose track of time?
- Would you rather work less overall than you do now, or work more doing things you really love?
- How did you decide what to be “when you grew up”? If you have never decided, how did you end up where you are?
- What did you want to be when you grew up?
- What did you think you would be when you grew up?
Balancing Your Ambitions
- What do you look forward to?
- At this moment, what is your greatest desire?
- What is something you don’t like to do but are good at?
- What is something you aren’t good at but really enjoy doing?
- When was the last time you felt out of control? What did you do about it?
- Do you feel that your ambitions are in balance?
- If you died tomorrow, what would you regret not having done?
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