Challenges are a part and parcel of life. Challenges test your resilience towards difficult or unknown situations. They make you matured and help you improve your risk-taking and decision making abilities. The most important thing is to challenge yourself to greater levels. Each challenge that you set for yourself should help you become better with each passing day.
Recently, the challenge that I faced was taking admission in a reputed business school. The challenge was two-fold: 1) since I was working with Tech Mahindra Limited, I had to prepare for competitive entrance exams along with fulfilling my responsibilities as an application developer; and 2) I was on a certain back foot compared to other aspirants during interviews because I am from engineering background. But I was determined to secure my future in a reputed school. Hence, I applied full concentration in order to succeed, despite attending office daily.
For this, I developed a time table so that I do not lag behind in any of the things. Also, there is a certain stigma surrounding the level of competition and difficulty of entrance exams. To overcome this challenge, I decided to compare my current performance only with my past performance and not get bogged down by the score of others. In essence, I decided to compete with myself- I set targets for each mock so that I could improve every time. Even after getting a good percentile in CAT, I was very much skeptical about my performance in group discussions and personal interviews. But, rigorous practice ad preparations helped me in the interviews. Such planning helped me overcome my hurdles and finally helped me take admission into Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar.
