Aatma Vishwas - The Self Belief

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 3^rd interview. In that 3^rd 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