A self introduction !!

My father was very furious and angry after seeing my Pre degree result. He could not digest the fact that his son barely passed. He went ahead to check with one of my professor for any option to re evaluate my answer sheet. He came back from my professor’s house and he seems very relaxed. He got to know from my professor that they never thought I will pass because of activities in college.

My name is Nikhil. Today I stand before you to deliver my first prepared speech on myself. I am so glad to get this topic because I love myself like all of you love yourself. When I was in my 10th std an external trainer visited my school to conduct a workshop. He asked the crowd who they love the most in their lives and many answered mother, father etc. But then, he asked again that if we ever got a photo of us in it who would we look for first. The answer was obvious, isn’t it. Yes, we unknowingly search for us. That was self realization and I accepted that.

That incident taught me to love myself even more ever since. I was born and brought up in Kerala. After completing my school, I joined a good college in Kerala for Business Administration. Even though I was not good student I got admission there through sport quota. Please don’t get confused with my fatty look, believe me I am a good sportsperson. The only one issue is my eating ratio is beyond my exercise. I was really anxious and nervous as I couldn’t study in my local language. Completing my schooling in Malayalam medium, the sudden transition to an English medium was harsh on me. My friends and relatives encouraged and supported me to join for BBA. But it was this one person , who did it for me . He said , ' Even the illiterate in England speak English, so then why can’t you?'. It was an absolute inspiration. Ever since then, I began taking up any challenge that came my way. Since I was a sport quota student it was my responsibility to build a good team in college. Always my university matches came along with my semester exams. I never had option to quit both. It helped me to manage two important things at the same time. More than I learn my management lessons from text books, I have learned management via this experience. My sport life also taught me to work towards a goal, hold the tension and evaluate myself.

Post my graduation I came to Bangalore in 2002 to do my PG. Immediately after my PG I got placed in Reuters. When I began my career here, I had an impression that I was the worst guy they could ever get. I had stiff competition as my colleagues were all experienced. I never realized I was moving up the ladder until my team leader showed me that my performance metrics had topped the whole dept. That was when I realized I could achieve much more with hard work. When I got the team leader job, I grabbed the opportunity because I knew I had got a chance to learn something new and I genuinely love people; but I came to understand that we needed to build up a model to bridge the gap between the team members and the task to be done.

In the year 2009 I got married to beautiful girl (if someone is recording the speech ;)) and we had the blessed addition to our small, happy family in 2011. She was born on International women’s day; March 8th. Right now I am enjoying fatherhood with my 15 month old daughter, developed new hobbies to match family requirements, cooking and kitchen gardening.

I want to be a world record holder in something I do. I want to be someone like Mohammed Ali, Pele or Nelson Mandela. But only issue I am facing is I couldn’t identify my area I am so passionate about like these legend identified in their early ages. My goal only something, it is not specific. My search is on for the specific goal from the last 20 years.

I have come a long way this 7 years in Thomson Reuters and have acquired some intangible skills but now I want to specialize in some specific domain. My next plan is to master some tangible skills, and one of them is to become a good speaker. So here I am. Thank you all.