How I Overcame my challenges to achieve my goals
“The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.” as said by the great Pelé one of the greatest footballer of the previous generation describes a challenge and the joy of overcoming it. Each problem that you take on shapes you in a particular manner.
One of the biggest challenges that I faced as an individual was to fulfill a goal that I had set for myself and had been slowly working towards it. I am a passionate football player and had represented my School, College, University at various levels and winning many accolades. Some of my highlights were participating in inter college football tournaments and securing 1st position 2013-14 out of more than 100 colleges and representing my university in the inter-university football tournament north zone held at MDU, Rohtak 2013-14.
Just after graduation, my day of joining TCS was not to be expected in the next six months, hence with time on my hand, I thought to pursue the goal of playing professionally once in Delhi. To accomplish the goal, I gave multiple trials at various clubs before being selected as a backup for a senior player if he was to be injured, with an explicit instruction that I might never get to play even one match for the Club which is the second oldest club in Delhi. It was also the club from which our current Indian Team captain Suneil Chettri had played. Hence being associated with them was itself a milestone. I jumped at the opportunity knowing well that this could be my last chance to accomplish my dream. Unfortunately, (not for me) the player got injured, but the coach decided on another senior player to play out of position instead of me. Upon addressing, he told me that I was probably not good enough to play in the league right now, which I took sportingly and waited for my opportunity on the bench until the last matchday of the season where I was selected to represent the club and won the man of the match at the same time.
The challenge that I faced was to be considered not good enough even when you know you are. I resolved the conflict just by sticking out instead of losing all hope and abandoning the goal I set for myself and Yes, the sense accomplishment did fill me with happiness eventually.
Aditya Birla Group is significant in our life.
Aditya Birla Group founded in 1857 is a US $44.3 billion corporation with over 120,000 employees, belonging to 42 nationalities and overseas operations spanning 34 countries. It is also one of the first Indian businesses to set up international operations. Even with all these accomplishments, the group is a forerunner in its CSR activities. It annually reaches 7.5 million people through the Aditya Birla Centre for Community Initiatives and Rural Development, working in 5000 villages globally. In my family where quite a few members including my mother are from teaching background and myself pursuing MBA understand the importance of education in our life so does ABG hence it provides quality education to 46,500 children through its 56 schools and health-care services where 20 hospitals tend to more than a million villagers.
I am a football fanatic who follows any news related to the game, be it worldwide or local. It has a global outreach and is the world’s most popular sport in terms of viewership but still is in its infant stage in India. ABG’s Aditya School of Sports has been committed to spreading infrastructural facility in not only football but other sports like Badminton, Tennis, hooting, Roller Skating and Archery training to the grass root level aspirants from every corner of the nation.
Also with me embarking on my MBA journey, I looked around for new formal clothes to wear roaming around Connaught Place, Delhi and the best collection were from Allen Solly and Van Heusen which are both owned by ABG. From clothes we wear to building’s we live in, to loved ones we connect with ABG touches us all and is an indispensable part of our lives.
