Mohanji Speaks Ms 72 We All Have The Success Factor!

Welcome to Mohanji Speaks.

Good day friends,

Hope you are doing well.

Today I was thinking about the success factor in people's lives.

When will it appear?

In what way it appears?

We don't know.

But we all have a success factor and a time for that in our life.

We all have it.

Then why some people do not really reach there?

It's only because they stop halfway.

Today in another forum I was giving a lecture,

A talk about the life of the founder of KFC,

Kentucky Fried Chicken,

Colonel Sanders.

He was born in 1890 and until he was 65 he only experienced failure after failure,

Repeated failure,

A lot of failure and by 65 he was contemplating on committing suicide because the net balance of life was failure.

And this happens in our life.

Various things we attempt in life,

We all do.

Whatever we attempt,

If it does not find success,

We always keep an option that we can commit suicide.

That's cowardice.

All he had as a possession was a recipe of his grandmother on how to prepare a particular chicken dish.

And he made that and he found that reasonably tasty and he approached many restaurants to try it,

To take that,

To buy that or can work together with him with that recipe.

He approached 1008 restaurants and all of them rejected because anything new,

Anything fresh,

We always have apprehension.

We only like time tested stuff.

If something is new,

Something is fresh,

We would wait for others to give opinion.

We would not dare to check for ourselves.

That's our human nature all over the world,

It's the same.

So he approached 1008 restaurants shamelessly and 1009,

1009th restaurant agreed to buy that recipe.

The rest is history.

At the age of 65,

His life took a turn,

Positive turn.

When he died in 1980,

He died an icon,

A millionaire.

KFC is present in almost all the countries.

They have about 200,

000 or plus outlets and they are successful.

I am a practicing vegan.

I do not endorse or I do not agree with this food.

I have never tried KFC and I will never try because I am a practicing vegan.

I am using this example only because success can happen at any age,

At any point in time.

If we are persistent with conviction,

With consistency in what we believe in.

It could be a recipe,

A small piece of paper perhaps.

It could be a brilliant idea and if you really believe in your idea,

You can find success.

As I said earlier,

Many people when adversities happen,

Obstacles happen,

They give up.

Even if they know that what they believe in is sensible and it can make a difference in the society,

It can make a difference in their own lives,

They leave it half way.

Many people.

That's why we do not see many successful people in the world and people envy those who are successful,

Oh how come this person has this persistence,

This tenacity.

We hate to break our comfort zones.

Secondly,

We think what others will think about us if we fail.

In the life of Colonel Sanders,

65 years he failed.

Whatever he attempted,

He failed.

Just imagine,

That's a time when people retire and they leave their usual regular existence and go to spaces where they are isolated or they can have their own space and their own time.

At that time,

He was actually beginning his life.

This is an important lesson that any point in time,

You can find your space and track.

My father is 87.

Eventually he completed the translation of a great work and the original work is in a language which he does not know.

He only read the English translation but he thought that English translation is not justifying the actual original book.

So he learned that language of the original book at the age of 87.

It took two years.

Now he completed the book and is getting ready for publishing.

You can learn a new language at any time if you believe in what you do.

Nothing stops you.

First of all,

You should believe in what you do.

And of course,

Before that,

You should believe in yourself that you can do it.

So believe that you can do it and you should believe in what you do.

It's very important and persistent.

Does not matter what the world thinks about you.

World may like you or dislike you.

World can only do two things.

They agree with you or they disagree with you.

We have all the weaknesses the world has.

We are weaknesses as well as strengths.

So world will always highlight our weaknesses.

That's the nature of the world,

Nature of the society.

But what we should do,

We should focus on the positive.

What we have positive and let the positive be our ability to be persistent.

Even after reaching the end,

We shouldn't stop.

We should keep improvising.

That keeps us alive.

That keeps us fresh.

That keeps us young.

I also remember in this context,

One man called Dasarath Manji.

He was living in a small village and the city or the neighbourhood town was about 40-45 kilometres away from his house.

And there was a mountain in between.

And his wife fell sick and he couldn't really take her to the hospital in time for her to survive.

He was on the way in his lap.

He was holding her and on the way she died.

And this affected him very badly.

And he was a very poor man.

He did not have money,

No support.

And he started working on the mountain.

And it took 20 years.

He made a road between the mountain.

Literally alone.

He is known as the mountain man of India or the mountain grandfather.

The man who actually made a space in the mountain and made a road.

And then the road to the city became 17 kilometres.

Without the help of government,

Without the help of any society,

Anybody,

He did it himself.

What a tenacity.

When his whole focus was on breaking this mountain into two and making a road in between,

Everybody told him he is crazy,

He is mad.

Nobody supported him.

People told him it is impossible.

What are you talking about?

You are just a man and you are trying to bring a mountain to its knees.

You must be crazy.

But he did it.

And he saved a lot of distance to the city which saved a lot of people in his village eventually.

We can do this.

There is no age,

There is no time,

There is no space if you believe in what you do or if you believe in something.

And if you keep your heart and soul for it,

You will achieve the end.

This is for sure.

But we should not be distracted by what people say.

We shouldn't be distracted by what people think about us.

Or we should not be distracted by anything in life,

Any adversity,

Any obstacle,

Any kind of distraction.

We shouldn't be affected.

Now why do we talk about waking up early,

The whole idea about early birds club for this purpose?

You need to ask yourself at some point in time,

What do I really want?

What do I need?

We don't ask this question.

We have never introspected sincerely.

Sincere introspection is essential to find yourself.

Sincere introspection.

And the right time for that is the early morning hours.

When you wake up in the morning,

You have time for yourself.

You have time to go within.

You have time to ask this question,

What do I need?

What is this life for?

What do I really want to do in life?

This question is important.

That time,

You will realize that every moment is precious.

If we are living 80 years,

It's only 29,

200 days.

Every day is precious.

Every hour is precious.

Every moment is precious.

It cannot be wasted.

There's no room for gossips,

Talking bad about people,

Or wasting time on materials,

Or chasing something outside.

Instead,

Come in terms with what you need inside.

If you really know what you want in this world,

You will get it.

I had asked this question many,

Many years ago.

What do I want from life?

I decided the world has gone insensitive because of various reasons,

The wars,

The blood shirts,

The displacements,

Insensitive world,

The way we handle the nature,

The way we handle birds and animals,

All the beings of the world,

Even how we handle the materials that we have in our hand,

Or materials that we have in our control,

The wastage of things,

And stuff like that.

So I decided I must bring awareness to this world as best as I can,

So that the world can be better,

Or we can reverse the aging of the world.

World is getting older because of manipulation,

Exploitation.

So I decided we should turn this clock back.

We can utilize the world for our existence only as much as we need,

Not as much as we want,

And leave the world slightly better to the next generation,

And thus bring back youth into this world.

I decided and I knew that we can bring youth in this world if we stop exploiting the world.

If we start utilizing the world as minimally as required,

We can make a difference.

If we stop living insensitively,

We can make a difference in the world.

It's our lifestyle that matters.

So I decided to start moving in that direction and the rest is history.

It's about eight years now since I decided to move forward with this mission.

And in eight years,

You have seen what all have happened.

I have always admired people who knew what they wanted from life.

I thought that these are the real people.

While it is easy to follow the two-dimensional methods of the society,

What do society want from a person or what is the allowed or approved lifestyle?

A child is born.

Educate the child.

The child has to get a job,

Earn some money or start earning,

Get married,

Have children,

Make a house,

Live in the house with the family,

Children's education,

Children's marriage,

Their children,

And by the time retire from the work,

And then look after the children's children,

Grandchildren,

And then wait for death.

This is the human existence which is approved by the society.

Very generic,

Very mediocre.

And some people find happiness if they get an appreciation,

An award,

A recognition,

Or some kind of tangible approval from the society.

They're happy.

But that's short-lived.

After a while,

They want more.

Some people thrive only on apologists.

If they don't get apologists,

They feel miserable.

So at no point in time,

They are checking or they are connecting to themselves and asking the question,

Is this what I wanted from life?

That's it.

So this question we must ask.

And then understand what you really need.

If you do not know what you really need,

You follow something compatible to you.

That could be what you need.

It is not necessary that we have to make the roads ourselves.

There are roads made by others which are compatible to our aspirations,

Or we can join hands with those people who are doing it and add your flavor in it.

That's a good idea.

That's how modifications and diversions and dimensions happen in every organization.

The organization will have a main theme and your value addition will take the organization to different dimensions,

New ideas,

New reach,

And new ways of fulfillment.

It's really important that we have to reinvent ourselves,

Especially if you are leading a mediocre life.

When I said mediocre,

It is just following the norms of the society,

Just being confirmative to the approved existence.

Nothing is happening in life in that way.

So I leave you with these thoughts.

These people who have done something in life just because they believed in themselves and they knew there is light at the end of the tunnel and they decided to walk all the way in darkness without knowing whether they are walking in the right direction.

There has been many people like that.

We can talk about such people more in the future.

But explore yourself,

Understand yourself,

Introspect,

Reinvent.

I leave this thought in your plate today.

Have a great day and great times ahead.

This is MorphingG for you.