MS14 - Success Against All Odds

Mohanji speaks about how to succeed against all odds. How do we handle failure and find success? Failure is not failure, if our attitude is right, if we can redefine and reinvent our expectations and goals and start walking again. This is today's 'food for thought'.

Transcript

Hello friends,

Welcome to a new episode.

Hope you enjoyed the previous ones and you did communicated with your friends and discussed it over and thought about it and digested it.

Now today we talk about a very important subject which is now very common in most discussions,

Failure.

Failure is looming large in the horizons today,

Especially in the COVID situation when the whole world is on lockdown,

More than half the population are indoors and we don't know what's going to happen.

Economy is also not doing so well in the world and production is affected,

Distribution is affected,

Purchase is affected,

Our normal life is affected.

So in this condition we do not know what to do,

What to say.

In this context I would like to talk about failure from a different angle.

Failure is from what?

Usually from our expectations,

We made plans,

We made goals,

We made expectations and if it did not happen as we expected,

We call it failure.

But is it really a failure?

We can redefine,

If we have made expectations,

We can redefine it,

Right?

We can also redefine our goals,

We can replan,

We can reinstall,

We can reinvent,

We have that capacity because it all started with us.

We are still the same,

We are healthy,

We are intact.

Situations were not in our control but that should not stop us.

If we have a good objective,

If we have a clear objective,

If we are here to give life and enhancement to the world around us,

Why not?

It's not failure,

There is no failure.

Whatever happens in the world,

We don't have to worry.

Now I will tell you a couple of stories,

It's not full stories but it's just a kind of hint so that you understand that how some people handle their failures and found success.

One is Honda.

You heard about Honda,

The car company in Japan.

The founder of Honda,

Mr.

Honda.

He started his work in a very low position in the work and then with all his effort and investment he found a factory.

But then the World War II happened and bombing happened and his factory was totally bombed.

Everything that he invested on,

Everything that he envisaged became ashes,

Completely gone.

Then he had to start again but he started again.

He did not sit down and cry.

He did not blame anybody.

He did not blame the situation.

He did not blame people.

He did not blame America.

He did not blame but instead he picked up himself and started walking.

And he made that particular part of the car and he tried to sell it to Toyota and Toyota said,

It's not good enough,

Quality is not good.

He went ahead and he again redid it and then he brought it again.

Toyota rejected saying not good.

Again,

Third time,

Fourth time.

A few times later the product was accepted by Toyota.

Mass orders came.

He started producing and then he started like that and then he reinvented his dream.

And it took time but then he did not stop.

So we should have a heart like that.

That not to stop at adversities.

Otherwise we are surrendered.

We are a victim of a dream.

Lack of fulfillment of a dream.

So we should not be victims.

Another person,

Sylvester Stallone,

You all know very well.

He made a script for the movie Rocky and he went to various producers.

Many people liked the script.

They said we will produce it and they even decided who the actor should be to play the major role but Sylvester Stallone said only he will play the major role.

The character should be him.

He want to play it.

But nobody wanted him because he is a rank outsider.

Nobody knows him.

He does not have value in the outside world because nobody knows him.

So a person who is not recognized may not be accepted either.

They wanted an accepted actor to play but Sylvester Stallone insisted he will sell his script only if he is the character,

He is the actor,

Main hero.

And finally for a small amount he was able to sell his script with him as the hero and that became a big hit.

Rocky came.

Rocky was a very big hit.

And then it's history.

He had literally to toil.

He even acted in a pornographic film to survive.

He did not have money.

So from there he scrambled and with his effort and with his determination he reached that level.

We all can do that.

We have that in us.

It's our attitude.

Failure is not failure if our attitude is right.

If our attitude is to survive,

If our attitude is to be successful,

If our attitude is to win,

We will win.

Otherwise for every small thing we sit down and complain and we will not be able to function.

So this Covid situation is giving us an opportunity to be winners,

To be successful,

To succeed over adversities.

This is a great opportunity because situations are grossly beyond control and we see a lot of people pessimistic.

A lot of people who we talk to,

They don't give you good information.

What they tell you is that things are not right and situations will go worse.

Maybe situations will go worse.

We don't know.

But we can always be positive.

We can do whatever we can within our control and we must.

There should not be any shame here.

If our goal is pure,

If our aim is pure,

If our intention is pure and if everything is selfless and we really want to make a mark in the world,

Nothing should stop us.

We have no failure.

So this is the thought I would like to give to you today.

And with this thought I leave you to contemplate,

To discuss,

To understand it further,

To assimilate and try to find out a lot of people who have succeeded in life against all odds.

Those who have succeeded,

They have succeeded after a lot of effort.

Nobody had a cakewalk.

See now we have a great foundation,

Mohanji Foundation.

Great foundation in the sense it's a foundation which is spread over many countries.

So many people know us.

This foundation is available to you.

You can walk forward and you can do your stuff through this.

Don't look at what you don't have.

Look at what you have.

And you have all,

It's like a huge family.

The family we have around the world is a huge family.

And this is a very powerful family because collectively we are strong.

Individually we may be weak.

Individually we can't do many things.

But collectively we can do lot of things.

And there is a lot of power and energy behind us,

In us and outside us.

So we utilize it well.

And like Walt Disney who went to many places and approached many financiers and they never thought that a Mickey Mouse will sell.

And finally one banker after his few visits agreed that okay I will give you a soft finance.

And then the rest is history.

The Disney world happened and everything was glory.

Like that we all can make glory.

So please don't ever sit on your dream or believe that you are a failure.

Time is not right.

All these things has to be discarded.

Get it done.

Move it.

Lots of love.

This is Mohan shortened overhead management from Ford alright.

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