Managing Your Future – Part 2
This a personal experience through which I would like to tell you how you should face trying situations and manage your resources for the future.
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If I ask you to reduce the length of a straight line without touching it, you may ridicule me. But determined people will certainly do so by drawing a bigger line over it. Thus, you should always consider your problems trivia so that you need not get upset but trample over them. What is needed is a strong mind to surmount anything that impedes our progress or future and a positive attitude. When I talk about this, I remember a power point show that narrates the list of prominent personalities whom you can adopt as your role model as they had faced plenty of challenges but had overcome all those shortcomings and achieved success, name and fame. They are:
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Abraham Lincoln |
Poor farmer’s son |
Former President of America |
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Albert Einstein |
Patent Clerk |
World famous Scientist |
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Goldameir |
Average School Teacher |
Former Prime Minister of Israel |
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Franklin D Roosevelt |
Sick and both legs paralysed |
Former President of America |
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Homer |
Blind |
Greatest Greek writer |
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Helen Keller |
Blind, Deaf and Dumb |
Renowned Writer |
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Demosthenes |
Nervous stammerer |
Well known Greek Orator |
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Beethoven |
Deaf |
Renowned music composer |
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Thomas Alwa Edison |
Matriculate and partially deaf |
Great Inventor |
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MS Oberoi |
Clerk |
Owner of Chain of Hotels all over the world |
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KK Patel |
Son of an ordinary farmer |
King of washing powder Nirma earning millions |
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Topiwala |
Matriculate with just Rs 100 on hand |
Now sells INR 5 crores worth of shingar bindi per year |
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Malathi Holla |
Struck by Polio & underwent 25 surgeries |
Got 150 gold medals in discuss throw and other sports activities |
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Sharad Kumar Dheekshith |
Had 2 heart attacks, crippled in lower portion of the body & vocal cords removed |
Performed 45000 surgeries free of cost |
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CN Janaki |
Both legs attacked by polio |
Famous swimmer, mentioned in the book “Special People” from Oxford University |
Besides there are persons like Prof Stephen Hawkins. By reading the lives of at least a few of these, one can understand how one’s sufferings are nothing compared to what they had endured and come over.
Let me conclude with the famous saying of Lord Budhdha: “Desire is the root cause of all sufferings.” Try to have less desire, be contented and have clean habits. Then the life will appear to be enjoyable.
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