Why Aditya Birla group is a big part in my life?
Aditya Birla group was founded by Seth Shiv Narayan Birla in 1857. It is one of the few industries in India that have survived through tides of time and flourished. It is the third-largest Indian private sector conglomerate. The group has its reach in multiple areas of businesses like non-ferrous metals, textile, fashion, telecom and finance. Aditya Birla group provides employment to 120,000 in 32 countries. Its safe to say that there is no person in India that has not used an Aditya Birla product.
Let me take personal examples from our lives to demonstrate this. Our fathers wore Grasim suits on important occasions, we wear a Peter England suit for ours. As a display of pride the neighbors in our locality said that their house was build with “UltraTech cement” such is the trust on brand. We used to have my tiffin wrapped in “freshwrapp” foils to ensure it remained fresh.
When we look at the CSR activities of the companies it is as diversified as its business holdings .The company’s action tell that they want an inclusive development. The company runs schools providing education to 46500 children, hospitals which have treated over a million patients. The Company is spearheading development of model villages which will promote rural self sufficiency and move the villages away from poverty.
This is one of the few companies which three generations of a family have trusted. The companies 162 years long history has taught the nation to survive even when the conditions are not in favor. The company has displayed that true development is when we include everyone in share of success. As an Indian when we see the respect given to Aditya Birla Group in foreign countries it makes me proud and motivates me to work hard.
How I overcame challenges to achieve my ambitions so far?
I sometimes feel that I am going to be the next Abraham Lincoln for we have approximately same number of failures in common. I have always kept high esteem of myself, and situations in life take great strides to bring me back to humility.
As a child I had practically everything sorted for me I had a good home, I was extrovert and good at sports. When you are successful for long who imagine your small surrounding as the whole world and you think nothing can beat you. I had the same thoughts. But even the gods get jealous when they see too much happiness in people’s lives they fill us with pride and vanity. We are trapped in our small bubble of success. By the time I reached class 12th I had begun to think myself as the next big thing , I ignored my parents advice and substituted hard work with good speeches. I first shock cam to me when I scored low in my higher secondary examination, which was followed by back to back failures to crack iit joint examination for two subsequent years. Arrogance had still not left me perhaps was the only thing that was holding me together. I then performed miserably in my graduation and one day I decided to take constructive criticism the thing I hated the most. I called everyone who have known me for years and asked them what I was doing wrong. I had my pain points after those long deliberations.
I was not working hard but thinking I was working hard and mind you that’s a very dangerous thing. I never identified my strengths and worked on whatever everyone worked on. Whenever I got an opportunity I used to take it for granted failed to reap benefits. Vanity was killing me.
I took a year for myself I worked on each weakness took time to analyze my performance and took proper feedback from others. My vanity slowly changed to empathy and I got to explore my human side.
I started to hate social media and love actual interactions more. I was ready to take the next step I set my goals but never defined the way to get them. I did grunt work and slogged for days .Results started showing .I was doing good at work managing studies without taking leaves. Taking part is social activities and winning in life.
The most important lesion I had learned was not to deceive oneself.
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