“Opportunities are Rare Species- Make a count on them”- TAPMI
Few of the ambitions were quite challenging for me as it required a lot of courage and commitment to complete it.
Few of the ambitions were quite challenging for me as it required a lot of courage and commitment to complete it.
As a little girl, I loved dressing up my dolls. I would spend hours finding just the right fit for my porcelain friends. I would go shopping with my mom and see scores of young girls shopping with their magic cards. As soon as I made my first penny, I knew where it would go. The day I saw the magic figures in my bank, I walked into The Collective and transferred the item from my mental wishlist to my physical wardrobe and the world was never the same again.
Aditya Birla Group, 162 years old, an Indian conglomerate operating in 35 countries with contribution given by more than 120,000 employees worldwide in 14 industrial sectors producing a total revenue of US $ 44.3 billions as of 2018.I take immense pride to share highlights from my 22 years of journey so far to describe what importance ABG holds in my life. I would like to start with an incident happened in my life few years back.
The year was 2004. A man had just left his town for a job in the big city. Back home, he had a family – a wife, a son, and a daughter. He had never been away from his little girl before for this long. He knew that the little girl missed her father dearly, torn by his absence. Thinking of her, he couldn’t resist. He picked up his cellular phone and called. A few hundred miles away, a girl jumped with joy as she exclaimed, “Papa!” An Idea changed their life.
Challenges are necessary hurdles and important part of life that gives us experience and make us learn and help us to become wiser and stronger. I also had some challenges in my life (and there would be a lot to come) where I overcome them learned and achieved in my life. One of such instances was when I was in my 12th standard and I used to play cricket at district level. In the month of December, I was selected for Delhi under 19 cricket team and the tournament was scheduled to begin in January. During a practice session my eye got injured and my right eye vision was blurred. I can no more focus on the ball and was scared while playing. I had my board exams in February and any further injury would be lethal for me. At that time, I decided to face my fears and work on them. I trained hard, recovered from the injury, got fit and prepared for my board exams as well. It was during that time I realized the importance of utilizing your time and make the most of it. The result of this was that not only I played the tournament and was the second highest wicket taker but also scored Good in my board exams. The lessons I learned during that time made me a person whose always up for challenges and take any difficulty that I face in my life as a new challenge and say “Bring it on”.
"wise men speak because they have something to say and fools because they have to say something."
The year after my graduation is the hardest I have had till now. It’s difficult to manage several things at once but what I found more difficult was to not have several things to occupy your mind. Like many of us I too decided to take an year break to study for CAT. Little did I know that I am not like everyone else. Unlike every other friend of mine, I wasn’t able to concentrate on studies or to handle the pressure of not being able to do one thing which I decided on.I who had always excelled in academics and simultaneously have been a president of an NPO, could not do one thing properly.With failure comes jealousy, I was jealous of my friends’, brother’s success. It was difficult to talk to them and hear them move forward. I started locking myself in and did not use to talk to anyone for days. My parents got worried.The exams came and went. I somehow took the exam, knowing that the results will be bad. It was at this time my mother told me what’s the most important thing in life, to keep moving forward. Rather than looking back and to keep regretting it, it’s better to learn and move.I soon joined a firm. It was from here on my determination became strong and I was able to work as well as study at that time and able to get into a good business school.
The challenges faced by me started at young age when I had to accommodate myself at new places which were completely unknown to me. For instance, I stayed in 3 cities and most difficulties were faced in Chennai, because of language problem ( People over there didn’t know how to speak HINDI, but even when they knew they didn’t prefer to converse in HINDI). So in order to overcome this challenge I started learning Tamil from YOUTUBE and to understand some talks I learnt half Tamil, so this was one of the achievements for me to overcome from the language problems. Second challenge that I faced was when I had to take decision regarding my selection of MBA colleges. For me it was the toughest thing to take a serious decision regarding which college I should go? Which college provides me with the best job placement after my MBA? And the biggest question was how will I settle in an MBA college hostel, as I was moving out from my home for the first time in 21 years? Though I took 4 months in deciding, but today where I have landed for my MBA course, I am happy, and I have overcome from the fear that I earlier faced that I might take time to adjust in hostel.This was the biggest challenge that I have over come from and also I wish that the college which I have chosen gives me the best opportunity to learn in terms of becoming a good leader as well as good human in my upcoming future and also to handle as many problems as I can.