the auditorium burst
with waves of thunderous applause
by the final year students
of a reputed management institute
hypnotized by the electrifying speech
of the legendary businessman
invited to deliver the annual address!
--
immediately thereafter
open-house question-and-answer session started.
--
question after question
was put forward
only to be immortalised by the answers of
the businessman-of-the-decade!
--
after almost an hour
there was time for just one more question
--
"how do you effortlessly manage to increase
the turnover of your business
year after year
even when the sector is reeling under slowdown pressure!"
a girl student asked!
--
"when i was a child"
replied the veteran business-legend after a brief pause
"i used to accompany my grandfather to the temple.
the priest used to give me very sweet 'parshad' in my tiny folded hands.
it was so tasty that it used to be my main reason for daily going to temple!
but i always felt bad that i used to get very less of it!
my sweets used to finish too quickly!
one day, the priest noticed my sad face
and asked me for the reason!
'why do you give me so less sweets' i askedhim
'because you have so small hands' the priest told me.
that night i couldn't sleep well past midnight!
that day i had got the most precious lesson of my life
which stayed with me ever since.
i have always reminded myself
that to have more and bigger 'prashad'
from destiny
you need to have bigger folded hands to receive more!
you get only what you can comfortably hold and manage!
you get only what you are psychologically ready for...
it's not about the market-size
it's all about the basket-size!
since that day
whenever i have to increase the turnover
all i have to do is
stretch my mental barriers of reality
revise my definition of possible-impossible
upgrade the scale of my blue-print...
and that is the only constraint that i have to struggle to increase.
once that is done
everything else just falls into place
and i get the desired growth!"
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