Ambition is a strong desire and determination to achieve success.

• Anxiousness is a nervous, fidgety, worried, uptight, concerned state of being.

• Unharnessed ambition arouses anxiety.

• Pressure and ambition are linked - the more ambition you have the more pressure you feel.

• EX: my digital entrepreneur biz - I felt constant gut-ache cuz my ambition was spinning out of control (I wanted to do everything).

• Then I got a pic from my brother Johnny - “just when I thought life couldn’t get any better…”

• Calm the ambition, Cool the pressure, Cure the stress.

• You can fail in one of two ways:

• 1) Quit - too little ambition - you don’t ever try anything ambitious so you never feel pressure.

• 2) Overextend - too much ambition.

• So how can you be be ambitious but not allow it to lead to anxiety when it comes to performance?

• 7 steps:

• 1) Pray - Phil 4:6-7 - no pressure, just peace.

• 2) Pace - 1 Corinthians 4:11 - “Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life…” Paul knew how to calm anxiety.

• 3) Prepare - (don’t procrastinate) - MASTER YOUR MATERIAL!

• 4) Practice, not performance - “the rehearsals are filmed”

• 5) People - focus on others. The comedian Michael Jr. said his life changed when he focused on “giving” laughs rather than “getting” laughs.

• 6) Privilege - view pressure as a privilege.

• 7) Profit - focus on the reward. When pressure is properly harnessed it leads to extraordinary profit. (Tua)