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He writes about his friend's failure-success story for us, under the column: 'YOU & FAILURE'.
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Success stories are always bundled with at least a few or many failure incidents. Not all failures stories are exposed, but a few definitely get exposed intentionally or unintentionally. These stories inspire us, motivate us and thus help us become successful in our own story. Here, I would like to share with you a story of one of my friends (name confidential) who failed in his entire life, but finally nailed it when it was his call.
Let’s call my
friend Ram (imaginary name). Ram was born into a middle class ‘sindhi’ family in Pimpri (Pune) in late 80’s. The family was into a small business
since ages, but neither luck nor destiny supported them and they always lived
from hand to mouth. He was a dull student in his school days, in spite of being
educated from an English medium School, he was never able to speak English
without pauses. He had good communication skills but could not communicate in
English. It took him 4 attempts to clear his SSC and then he joined a nearby
commerce college for HSC.
He was never interested in studies but he was good at
organizing events and trading. Since business was in his blood, he knew all the
necessary tacts to impress customers. He started of his career with ‘event
management’. Small events like birthday parties, occasions like Holi,
Gopalkara (dahi handi), Navratri in his society.He was good at his work, but
luck did not support him and for unfortunate reasons he did not excel in this
field.
As he entered 12th standard, he stared a ‘CD
renting business’. He gathered a
huge collection of Hindi and English movies and started renting them to
students at a nominal rate of 10 bucks a day. The idea was great, school
children could easily afford 10 bucks from their pocket money a week for Movie.
It started off well but ceased due to lack of substantial profit. By this time,
he cleared his HSC with the poor marks with which any student could pass.
After his 12th
he started working in a mobile phone shop in Pimpri as a ‘Sales Executive’. He excelled
there as he was good in convincing. After working for two years in the same shop,
a new idea struck his mind of opening his own mobile shop in Pimpri. He borrowed a
huge amount from his friends and relatives and started a small mobile shop in
Pimpri. Even though he was good as a mobile sales boy, but destiny did not
support him for his own business. The shop was closed in around 6 months and he
ended up with huge debts and depression. He
lost all his supports and contacts and due to increasing debts and losses he silently left the city and went to Mumbai for
a while. Nobody in his entire friend circle was aware that he was in Mumbai.
He stayed in Mumbai for around 5 months. As it is said "THERE IS ALWAYS A GREAT VALUE IN DISASTER", it was during his Mumbai stay that he met an entrepreneur in Mumbai who had a well to do business
setup in Senchen (A place between China and Honkong). The organization
manufactured mobile phones for many leading Cell phones companies. Being
impresses by Ram, he asked him to work for him as a manager there. Then what , the
middle class boy with huge debts had a new goal in his life!. He did
not have a passport when he was given
this offer, three months later after he got his passport he went to Honkong. He
started working there as sales manager with a stipend of 25,000 Indian bucks
with food and accommodation. His life changed, gradually he cleared all his
debts and also got promoted at the place where he worked.
Today he earns more
than 80,000 INR – this is the life story of a simple middle class boy who
passed 12th with 39% and 10th with 41% after 4 attempts.
Failures increased his capabilities to handle critical situations with better manner
to produce an optimum outcome. His vast experience as a sales boy, event
organizer, DVD seller, sales executive gave the perfect blend for him to work
as a successful sales manager in the new
Organiztion.
May people may say that he was lucky but I will say
"FORTUNE FAVOURS THE BRAVE".
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