I was watching this video shared on WhatsApp wherein the speaker claimed that “Aadmi apni aukad tak hi paise kama sakta hai” (people can earn money only upto their value – capability/capacity) and if you want to improve your finances then you have to improve your Value – capability / capacity. What is true for finances is equally true of everything else in life. Only humans have the capacity to overcome their biases, prejudices, habits and transform their personality, no other creature even attempts to do it.
Unlike potatoes & eggs that don’t have a choice to soften or harden upon boiling, humans actually have a choice of what they wish to be within – an egg or a potato. If we allow the situation to take control of us then when the situation boils, we become soft as potatoes and lose the plot, but if we take ownership of our response to the situation and respond as appropriate(instead of cursing destiny/ blaming others/ procrastinating/ etc) then we become hard as a boiled egg and eventually emerge rich in experience even if, and more so if the situation doesn’t go in our favour.
The possibility of changing our response to any aspect of our lives is available every moment. It doesn’t matter whether you haven’t done it before or that you have always been a soft potato, the choice of turning into a hard boiled egg still exists at this very moment. Whether you choose to take up the challenge and ownership of your response to the situation is up to you.
The two most important days of your life are – the first when you were born and the second is when you choose to take ownership of your response to life…
Explorer, Philanthropist, Mentor:
Exploring and researching on practices of Self Realisation
Philanthropist: engaged in projects with social and environmental impact
Mentor: guiding people crystallise and achieve their material and spiritual goals
Background:
Former CEO of Mahindra Integrated Business Solutions- an Advisory and Business Process Management Arm of the Diversified US$ 17 Billion Mahindra Group. Ajit was responsible for transforming a Shared Services Centre of the Mahindra Group into a full-fledged Advisory and Business Process Management Company with products/services spanning Strategy & Enterprise Risk Management Advisory to Digitization and Transactional Outsourcing.
He has over 23 years of experience in the industry as an Entrepreneur. He has built businesses in Music Publishing, Media (Compact Discs/DVD’s) Manufacturing, Logistics and Financial Services and is currently nurturing his own initiative called FREE (Forests, Renewable Energy and Environment) & associated with NPO Trusts/ Organizations and mentoring select people and a few start-ups in his personal capacity.
A Chartered Accountant by Qualification with extensive continuing education in Executive Management Programs @ Harvard Business School, Michigan- Ross Business School, IIM-A
He has pursued spiritual interests since an early age exploring inner facets of self through Vipassana, Isha Yoga, Kriya Yoga, other yogic approaches / meditation techniques An Avid Marathoner, trekker/mountaineer, scuba diver, writer and motorbike traveller, is passionate about exploring the outer world as much as the inner.
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Beautiful msg Ajit Sir
Varad P Wazalwar
7/1, V.H.B.Colony, Near Water Tank,
Wanjari Nagar, Nagpur-440003
Mobile : +91- 9921257545
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Beautiful msg Ajit Sir
Varad P Wazalwar
7/1, V.H.B.Colony, Near Water Tank,
Wanjari Nagar, Nagpur-440003
Mobile : +91- 9921257545
Land Line: 0712-2742529
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