PATNA: It's the results and not the hard work you did to achieve them
that would go down in history. No one remembers how many times you
missed the target by a whisker, but how many times it was a perfect 100.
This is what motivational guru Shiv Khera said while delivering a lecture at the Arcade Business College here on Tuesday.
Addressing youngsters, Khera said, "Famous Australian swimmer Michel Phelps, who now holds the record of having the highest medal tally in Olympics, had faced a massive accident a year before 2008 Beijing Olympics. He was asked by his coach to give up, but he proved him wrong by winning eight gold medals then." He added it's just not sheer determination, but patience too that is equally important. "For a performance of 15 seconds, Phelps worked tirelessly for 15 months," said Khera.
He said the world's memory is very short to remember how close you were to the target. "No one takes pain to know how many times Sachin got out at the score of 99, but what one remembers is how many times he scored a 100," he said.
Khera told Gen X if one is not part of the solution, then one is the problem himself. There is no grey area. There is very minor difference between wish and determination. If wish is followed by unflinching action, it becomes determination, otherwise it's a vacuum. The obstructions on the path of achievement of a goal may alter your wish, but not determination, Khera said.
Giving examples from his own life, Khera said while going through a bad phase in US, where he was employed initially as a car washer, he got a job as an insurance agent, one in which he was never interested. His performance was very bad. Consequently, he was lambasted by his boss and was on the verge of being kicked out. The hurt on self-respect pushed him to work so hard that he achieved record performance in the next few months. Khera said, "Many a times even if your career is not going in the direction you like, you have to be pragmatic and should give more than hundred per cent to steer it." He added the boss's unkindness thus proved kindness to him.
Answering questions on the disbanding of Team Anna, Khera said corruption is at such a high level that even the Supreme Court on many instances has expressed its frustration with it. "The country is facing innumerable problems, many of which go unnoticed, but at the heart of all lies corruption. In such a dismal scenario, there is no hope other than a movement like that of Anna."
Asked about the status of a political party, Bharatiya Rastravadi Samanata Party, launched by him earlier, Khera said, "Because of my financial and health constraints I had to disband it. But that didn't deter my cause. I have filed a host of PILs on issues of public importance. Many a time there is no advocate to take up my case, and then I argue myself, but don't give up."
The lecture was organized on the occasion of inauguration of the new academic session of Arcade Business College.
Addressing youngsters, Khera said, "Famous Australian swimmer Michel Phelps, who now holds the record of having the highest medal tally in Olympics, had faced a massive accident a year before 2008 Beijing Olympics. He was asked by his coach to give up, but he proved him wrong by winning eight gold medals then." He added it's just not sheer determination, but patience too that is equally important. "For a performance of 15 seconds, Phelps worked tirelessly for 15 months," said Khera.
He said the world's memory is very short to remember how close you were to the target. "No one takes pain to know how many times Sachin got out at the score of 99, but what one remembers is how many times he scored a 100," he said.
Khera told Gen X if one is not part of the solution, then one is the problem himself. There is no grey area. There is very minor difference between wish and determination. If wish is followed by unflinching action, it becomes determination, otherwise it's a vacuum. The obstructions on the path of achievement of a goal may alter your wish, but not determination, Khera said.
Giving examples from his own life, Khera said while going through a bad phase in US, where he was employed initially as a car washer, he got a job as an insurance agent, one in which he was never interested. His performance was very bad. Consequently, he was lambasted by his boss and was on the verge of being kicked out. The hurt on self-respect pushed him to work so hard that he achieved record performance in the next few months. Khera said, "Many a times even if your career is not going in the direction you like, you have to be pragmatic and should give more than hundred per cent to steer it." He added the boss's unkindness thus proved kindness to him.
Answering questions on the disbanding of Team Anna, Khera said corruption is at such a high level that even the Supreme Court on many instances has expressed its frustration with it. "The country is facing innumerable problems, many of which go unnoticed, but at the heart of all lies corruption. In such a dismal scenario, there is no hope other than a movement like that of Anna."
Asked about the status of a political party, Bharatiya Rastravadi Samanata Party, launched by him earlier, Khera said, "Because of my financial and health constraints I had to disband it. But that didn't deter my cause. I have filed a host of PILs on issues of public importance. Many a time there is no advocate to take up my case, and then I argue myself, but don't give up."
The lecture was organized on the occasion of inauguration of the new academic session of Arcade Business College.
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