Hope & Positiveness

Last week I was in Bangalore attending the NASSCOM Product Conclave.  What a climate it was -  filled with hope and positiveness - so many people coming into Entrepreneurship (of course, many were youngsters).  While there were quite a lot of B2B, B2C applications, there were also some new things that are being created too.  The whole 2 days was filled with a a sense of great feeling of having arrived and also wanting to Succeed.

Following these 2 days of energy upliftment, Saturday once again was another occasion, which lifted up the spirit of wanting to Go forward with all Hope & Positiveness.  This was brought out by the 2 young achievers Meera Krishnan & Raj shankar, Founders of Ichiban Consultants, releasing their maiden book " Entrepreneurship: A life of commas, Not full Stops!" - being focused to their goal.

The 3rd one was reading an article in " Aval Vikatan" - a publication by Vikatan group for the women - Determination thy name is Valarmathi .  This article is a portrayal of Valarmathi, a woman from a small village called Silamalai in Theni district in Tamil Nadu.  What made me to read this article with interest was her statement - " For those people who are earning Rs. 40,000 per month, I am a News article, but at the same time for those who are earning Rs. 400 per month, I am HOPE" - What profound statement isnt.  This lady who has passed only 4th standard does not just one business, but 5 business throughout the day.  Her day starts with her tending to her goats as part of her goat rearing business.  Then after tending to the kitchen and her school going children, she then gets down to make Files until evening.  In between she also handles the IOB rural Commercial Help Kendra through which the rural populace do banking transactions through ATM like device.  Then she starts grinding batter for sale in midst of becoming busy preparing for the night dinner.  Putting her children to sleep, she then sits on her tailoring machine to stitch clothes for the next 2 hours.  Thus ends her long day at work.   So how does she handles it - she says If there is a will there is a way".  A perfect example for people to succeed with determination

The fourth one is an person who was speaking about how and his wife go about everyday.  He was one of the speaker in the Makkal Arangam on Jaya TV, which I chanced to see today.  I am very sorry that I didn't get this great Hero's from Erode name.  But here is his life as described by him.  He goes out at 5.00 am in the morning to distribute Newspapers till 7.00 am for which he gets paid Rs. 500.   Then he returns home to take care of his  two children and prepares them for school and drops them at their school.  From there he goes over to the local courier office to deliver packages to various clients.  He gets paid Rs. 1500 per month.  At 1.00 pm, he meets his wife at the Market, where she after finishing the cleaning at 5 offices joins him.  Both of them purchase things needed for their snacks business and return back home.  After about half an hour rest, both prepare the snacks.  At 4.00 pm, while he leaves to pick the children from school, his wife pushes the cart to the roadside where the business stall is set up to sell bajjis, bondas and vadas on the wayside.  He tends to his children's needs and make them do their home work and then takes them to the business place.  The children when it is time to sleep, are made to sleep close to the cart.  Around 10.00 pm, they wind up the business and put the sleeping children on the cart and bring them home. After late dinner, they go to sleep by 11.00 pm.  If this is not enough, this person also is part of an Orchestra group and goes out for late night performances and in those days he gets less than 2hours sleep.  The fire in the belly is driving this couple to do all these things and still be positive and hopeful that they will be able to bring a see change in their lives.  What a way to Go

The last one is what I saw once again in TV in Star TV - The movie  Erin Brockovich starring Julia Roberts which also got her the Oscar Award   is based on the true story about an unemployed single mother who becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city's water supply.  This person fighting for her survival, still goes forward with finding the truth and helping the law firm to file the class action suite.  of course, it is not about entrepreneurship, but about how as an employee you have to be committed to your work and do justice to the people dependent on your work.

All the above stands for the following Hope, Positiveness, Determination, Grit and Hard work &last but not  the least not giving up at all.

So now my  mind is all set to take on the world.  If ever you are feeling depressed, tired or becoming negative, look at the above 5 people and you will be brimming with Hope. If these people can  do all that  they want to do, So can you.  So go ahead and Dream and make your dreams into reality.




Comments

Umasree said…
Wonderful and it is the fact that close to 70% of people in our country in the "Income Earning Group" go through each or few of the hurdles mentioned to make a livelihood.....There are millions of valarmathi's and Erode Heroes who silently hope and hope and hope and pull along...where the 5% of the top top top rich of the country.....0.01 % sitting in our Parliament, drain the countries, resources and tax payers money and tired of seeing scandals and scandals and shameless SCAMS...eating away public money, as the Nation and its People struggle to make it every day. We in the Upper middle class watch with silence, dignity, helplessness and aim at bringing in change atleast to few lives around us...But when will be able to change this biggest divide between Rich and Poor in our country and bring in a equalitarian society.... Yet, like you said, I am still hopeful and positive, and hope there is a better tommorrow!!
November 17, 2010 at 5:11:00 PM PST
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