Humi se toh ummeedein hain..... Humi se toh dilasa hai....
Humi pe hain nigaahe
bhi.... Humi pe to Bharosa hai...
Dil se kaho... Hey... Hai
Hum Mein Hai Hero....
Milke kaho... Hey... Hai
Hum Mein Hai Hero....
Hum mein hai hero... Hum
mein hai hero...
These are the lines from my favourite advertisement now a day from Hero
Motor Corp composed by AR Rehman, really inspiring & suits the title of
this post “Aatma Vishwas – The Self Belief”.
Hey
Do you think you are a “Creative”
person?
Are you always being with lots of “Innovative
Ideas”?
And
Are you always “Dreaming” for
your ideas to be implemented?
Are you not getting “Right Platform”
to show your talent?
Are you not getting “Chance”
like others?
Do you always have the “Complaint”
of not getting heard?
Do you always face “Criticism”
by people for all your ideas, which still to be implemented?
Do you think “One Day” you will
answer to all those who criticising you by implementing your ideas?
Then
Why that “One Day” can be “Today”?
Why can’t we have “Critics” for
our “Implemented Ideas” rather than for
unimplemented one?
Why we so “Complaining” for
not to be heard, when we can easily “Be Loud
& Clear” with our work?
Why we don’t think that only lucky person gets “Chance” not the successful person with “Passion & Hard Work”?
Why can’t we create our own “Platform”
than to “Depends” on others to provide
“Right Platform”?
Why we only “Dreaming” when
we know it require “Courage & Sleepless
Nights”?
More Importantly
Do we have the “Aatma Vishwas –
The Self Belief”?
I Think
We have to first convince ourselves than to others. First we required is
nothing but “The Self Belief”. Behind
every successful story, there is a success element called “Self Belief”. No creativity can be made successful if we don’t have
Self Belief. There is no “Right Time
& Place” to prove our self than “Now
& Here”.
According to me every individual have a “Creative Person” inside them. Everyone has their own style of
thinking & working. All of us utilise our creativity for our various daily
activities. We all must have at least one incident with us, when we would have
convinced to our parent, teacher or boss by any ways for something where it is
impossible to do so & can count as our creativity. We must be doing creative
work every now & then but might not be noticing it. But these all will be
general in nature & not required much effort to implement.
Real examination come in to picture when we have to implement our
creative ideas & all the situations are against us or we don’t have sufficient
resources to implement the same or we have more critics than supporters. In
that case the only thing which works & helps us to at least start is “The Self Belief”.
It is difficult to think to prove our creativity for those who belong
to poor families or coming from rural India with no base, almost no resources
& less support from the people as they have less hope for any improvement
& situations are always against you. But if we have enough motivation inside
us then no situation can stop us to prove our self.
Dil dheere dhadke hai aaj... Hone ko hai aaghaaz
Safar pe Chalne ka badhne ka... Itna hai Hausla
Mitna faasla... Manzil ne mil hi jaana hai
Ooo.. Khwabon se aage jaana hai
I think we should start looking as “Opportunity” to each & every “Odd Situations” & can be utilized as “Motivation” for step up & increase our “Self Belief”.
If we really want to make our creativity successful, if we really have
passion & courage to make it successful then don’t bother about the others,
don’t bother about the odd situations, just believe on our self & don’t keep
quit. Don’t wait for others to provide Right Platform or depends upon the
situation for any chance. Don’t complain about any situation & ignore critics
who demoralize us. Lets step up with full of Self Belief. If you have true
passion & courage then situations will defiantly start working in favour
but all we required is to at least have start with “Aatma Vishwas – The Self Belief”.
Please remember for any successful creative idea it is important that we
should have our concept & objective clear. While execution you may found some
difficulties or you may got some excellent ideas from other. We have to be
flexible to adopt others ideas while execution, which should not damaging our main
objective or any reverse effect on our main concept.
I would like to share one of my Ideas which I have implemented with all
the odd situations.
As I have already mentioned about my “Sewing Machine” business in my previous posts. 11 years back we
hardly use to sell 30 machines per annum & at a time we were having stock
of 2 to 3 sewing machines. We wanted us
to expand this business & with some difficulties somehow we have increased
our stock till 12 machines. But our image in the market was the same with stock
of 2 to 3 machines. I wanted people to visit our shop so that they understand
that we have increased out stock with various options available at a time.
One day I visited to 1 village where I just stop in front of one Tailoring
Shop, where in that shop at least 5 workers was working for daily wages. That
time something clicked in my mind. All those 5 workers working for daily wages
why can’t they work for them self rather working for other?
Ohh.... they don’t have enough money to buy 1 sewing machine for them
so that they can start working for them self.
Opportunity... J J J J
Why should not I provide them 1 sewing machine & thy will easily
earn Rs. 50 to Rs. 100 daily & can
give me Rs. 20/- per day to own that sewing machine in 4 months?????????
So I came up with the Slogan à
Sewing Machine @ Rs. 1/-
(For the limited period
offer during festival time from Navratra to Diwali when people use to purchase)
But we could somehow manages to maintain the stock of 12 sewing
machines & if I will start distributing the machines in down payment of Rs.
1/- how we will maintain our stock, as all our working capital will be going to
block in that credit scheme.
Should I go for it? Yes why not.
I was fully confident on my idea. But we were not ready to afford such
big working capital crises & the question was how we will supply huge
demand which was estimated as at least 50 sewing machines in one month.
I went to my papa asking Rs. 5000/- for promotion. Rs. 5000/- lolzzzzzz,
forgot about it whether we would be able to implement it, that was his first
question to his 17 year old son. And this type of ideas until implemented successfully
after all odd situations couldn’t be accepted & seems to be “Day Dreaming”.
But I was confident & more importantly I have the Self Belief. Now
my first objective was to convince my parents. I took 1 big blank white paper
& made 1 advertisement with help of blue pen. My papa was impressed but allowed
me to go ahead against the wish of my mummy & for the last attempt to stop
me he told me “I will not help you for
this during whole implementation other than providing you Rs. 5000/- for
advertisement”. He thought I will be withdraw myself as I have to travel
every day to Seoni for my studies during my B.Sc. (It is 25 KM from Barghat).
With the extreme level of Self Belief, I didn’t step down; I have
started implementing my idea. I went to my friend Guru Kushwaha & shown him
my advertisement. He, who liked it very much & found very interested started
helping me for the same.
We have started working on printing our pamphlet for advertisement,
ordered for making few banners etc. Advertisement itself was very attractive as
it was saying “Sewing Machine in Rs. 1/-“.
Guru & Me went to street of Baghat & installed our banners in
the crowded areas. We have pasted all the pamphlets in various places of Barghat
& nearest villages. I remember we used gum made from Wheat Powder boiled in
the water. It is really an excellent formula for pasting the pamphlets. Lots of
places we got attention of people. People start asking about the concept &
appreciating the same & we were getting motivation from them.
Later in mid of the campaign my papa started helping us & he
suggest various processes so that the same could be implemented effectively.
And as expected due to the attractive Rs. 1/- campaign people started
visiting our shop. Footfall has been increased drastically. During 1 month of
Scheme Period we sold approx 45 machines but more importantly more than 1000
people from various villages has been visited to our shop & our shop came
in to limelight.
Out of 45 customers, “5 became
defaulter” & we have to recover machine from them. But if you calculate
Rs. 20/- Per Day for remaining 40 Machines it became Rs. 800/- Per Day &
indirectly we were selling 1 Machine in every 3 days in full cash for next 4 months,
so working capital issue also resolved by that.
This is one of my life time events which made me what I am today for
various reason. One of the biggest reasons is that it helped me to build my confident. Help me to start believing on myself. More importantly give me the
power to fight with all the odd situations which can kill my creativity any
time. This event taught me how we can take calculative risk to utilize the opportunities.
When after completing my graduation in B.Sc (Computer Science), I had
two options with me, whether to do Masters in Computer Applications (MCA) or go
for Masters in Business Administrations (MBA), I went for MBA & while deciding
this I didn’t take much time just because of the above sewing machine project I
have implemented & I thought doing MBA will be justice for me for my
future.
This project also helped me to get my first job in Tata Consultancy
Services (TCS). I remembered when TCS came to our collage after aptitude test those
who have cleared should have gone through with 2 round of interviews. After 2 interviews,
7 candidates have been offered a job & I was not in that list of 7.
Out of rejected candidate 5 has been called again for 3rd interview.
In that 3rd interview I have been asked to described creativity then
rather to give theoretical answer of creativity I just told them about my
Sewing Machine Project. They asked me where the Creativity is. & I answered
à
“Sir Many people asked me to at least take Rs. 500/- or Rs. 1000/- as
down payment but I said no to them "The Perception of Rs. 1/- that is my creativity...." J J J J
Out of those 5 candidates I was the only candidate who got selected
& thanks to the Sewing Machine Project..... J J J J
So believe on yourself & don’t wait suitable time or situations to improve
for you. Please dare to fight, don’t hesitate to start after all the odd
situations.
Don’t wait for others to approve our Idea to implement.... We are only
person who can approve what we want to implement...
Just what all we require is à
“Aatma Vishwas – The Self Belief”
Yes we can do it....
Thanks a lot for reading... Take care & all the best...Hope you all not bored while reading that J
regards,
rupesh
