one dream @ a time !!

If you want to be successful in your life, you should have dreams!!

Somebody said this, I have taken it literally. I had dream, I had many dreams to be successful.

My childhood I have dedicated myself to become Sachin Tendulkar. I stood in front of mirror and practiced Sachin’s straight drive. Without entering in to cricket ground and finally I have left the dream of becoming a cricket player in front of mirror.

During my college days I have met my physical trainer and she introduced me to world of Kabadi, my heavy and flexible body helped me to become college team captain and lead the college team to win university matches. I was clear, Kabadi is not my ultimate aim in my life. I have to study to be successful in life. I have studied to pass the exams and ensure decent grades and completed post-graduation.

I have got a break in joining Reuters immediately after my education. I had a question in one of interviews, where do you see yourself after 5 years? I was clear and told him, I want to start a business and settle in my home town. Yes, that’s what I wanted to do. After joining Reuters, I worked hard, I never bother about promotion or salary hike because I wanted to start a business soon. Whatever I was doing was to gain experience to be an industrialist.

That was the time my managers and my team members had great confidence on my subject matter expertise. Everyone thought I was next subject matter expert even I thought so. But my inner voice told me the reality. That opinion was purely because no one including me didn’t have confident on my people management ability. Those days I hardly speak to people. I used to talk only with my comfort zone.

So I decided to pursue a people management role. I got through, and manage that job with some difficulties. I got a comfort zone again. By the time my strength of subject has gone away.

My dream of starting a business continued and in fact I have started a business, not one 3 different business. I have realised one thing. That is, how one shouldn’t do business!!

That failure in business has got some sense in to me. I have decided to work till I have a handsome savings and decided work on my skill set to improve my career progression. I started joining many courses to more skills, including project management, software and list go on… but the fact is doing people management role for last 6 years I have developed a lot skill set, I am good at lead a team, driving results and I am losing my credibility because I am not confident, and I am over modest.

Then I have decided to do two things, physical exercise to keep up my health and improve my communication skills. More importantly, I have started doing things that I was not comfortable before. When I join toastmasters, on my second meeting, I admired and envied the MC for that day. Because I knew I can’t do that. But I didn’t leave toastmasters, slowly after 10 to 15 meetings, I have taken up the role of MC and did a decent job. After two years in toastmasters, I have taken up the role MC in meetings for 150 people. That was not bad show, I am proud about my slow that day because 2 years back I was afraid to became MC for 10 people.

Life is all about this, you should have a dream to be successful but not many dreams. Many dreams are like shooting to the sky, you should gain power to aim the bull’s eye! It is challenging because you will come across many distractions and short term gains to forget your dream. Same time you have to cross my comfort zones. It is the choice you make and will power to you possess to take you to success!!