Brought up in a very influential family of marathwada, growing up in a protected manner, I completed my schooling & college with good grades in my hometown parbhani.
Fortunate to have teachers who had genuine concern for our growth in school days. Then while in a classroom, heard a teacher say, “if wanting to be engineer one should get admission in UDCT or VJTI or COEP.
During college time got connected with great business teachings and understood the importance of business ownership, leadership for good of all. Finding the way of fulfilling life’s purpose, chose to back in India to Build India, foregoing PhD Scholarship USA.
Why are you doing business when being so highly educated?” “Prestige in more important that selling products”. “You shouldn’t waste your degree and should become an employee of a large corporation”.
My wife became pillar of strength for us to mire through all these messy thoughts and come out victorious. Not amongst huge turnover yet, but it is happening on a fast track now. Blessed for getting the opportunity in our great nation to run 3 businesses. First is of independent contractorship with a F500 company.
Giving access to ambitious business-minded people of profit-sharing contracts. Giving active support to build business in retail industry. Second is of computer sales & service. Supplying computers to organisations. Giving high-quality original products with great service.
Third business is of conducting workshops about various important aspects. Some workshops are about family empowerment, leaderships, patriotism. We feel blessed that we are able to pursue our true passion of teaching through various businesses. Immensely touched by many mentors who helped me become the person I am today.
Mentorship by industrialists & success principles taught by many fine human beings. I recommend having the ingredients as must-have for anyone wanting to transform their lives. This is one of the reasons the passion about human transformation hasn’t diminished a bit.
I find it very easy for anyone else to become better too – provided they do what is taught by business leaders. This is something that can be taught hence I have made it a passion, like Abdul Kalam ji, to teach these all over the world. I am privileged that many proven success stories have come forward to join this mission to teach these universal principles to impressionable minds.
This is not a one-man show but huge teamwork for building a great nation – nation full of ethical, inspired, happy, prosperous people. Swami Vivekananda said, “Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts. We are striving hard to help youth understand this simple yet profound truth and not run after jobs. Be job creators and not job consumers. If we hadn’t done that then we didn’t have right of advising that to anyone. That’s pleasure of having own business, you can be your own man!!
As Abdul Kalam ji commented – Be a proud mother and father who become greatest teacher for their own child. This is the way to building a exemplary nation of ethical, happy, wealthy, healthy people. We see that opportunity in being business owners and hence are committed to leading people towards things that build great nation.
(With inputs from Prasad Joshi)
