Become by Sameer Dua

Author:Sameer Dua
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India
Published: 2017-12-29T05:00:00+00:00

Holding space of conversation

Create and hold a space of mutual trust and respect.

Stand in people’s greatness, particularly when they cannot see their greatness.

Speak from a stand to achieving the promise, rather than from reactions.

Be open to receiving and giving honest feedback.

TO CHANGE YOUR IDENTITY, MAKE BIGGER PROMISES

One of the 4R impacts of not managing your promises effectively is the impact on your reputation. I have also referred to reputation as your public identity. The claim that I make in this section is that you can change your identity in your own eyes and in the eyes of others by making bigger promises, and by keeping these bigger promises.

As I have stated above – you are a promise. How big you are is a function of how big your promises are, and how big is the impact of your promises. I have examples of two people that I want to use to further elaborate on this point.

The first one is Sunil Jain, who is a chartered accountant by profession. Sunil was struck with polio when he was about a year old, and ever since he’s been wheelchair-bound. However, the world (people like me and other people in his circuit) do not relate to Sunil as a wheelchair-bound person. We see Sunil as a man who makes big promises, acts on these promises and achieves desired results.

Sunil set up Astha Foundation in 2010, about the same time as we set up the Gift Your Organ Foundation. I have had the good fortune to see the foundation grow, and its impact multiply year after year. Annually, around World Disability Day in December, Astha organizes an event called Jugalbandi, literally meaning ‘entwined twins’ where he has musical performances by artists who are bodily abled and bodily disabled. The abled and the disabled perform together, creating magic on stage.

In December 2015, the fifth year of Jugalbandi, Sunil declared that in the Paralympics of 2020, India would have four gold medals, and his foundation would train all these winners. Soon after making this declaration, Sunil got into action focusing particularly on two sports, viz., para-swimming and wheelchair tennis. Astha trained Vishwas, an upcoming para-swimmer, who went on to win a championship in Canada; and then a year later, Astha organized India’s first ever ranked wheelchair tennis tournament. About thirty-six wheelchair tennis players participated in this tournament, setting up the platform for each of them getting ranked, and opening doors for participation in international tournaments, representing India. What the sports ministry and the All India Tennis Association could not do, Sunil Jain did single-handedly.

These are huge first steps in fulfilling his declaration of getting four gold medals for India in 2020 Paralympics.

In all this, Sunil has remained the same – humble and down to earth as ever. However, his identity in the world – in the eyes of his friends, family, All India Tennis Association, Indian and international tennis stars, the citizenry of India – has gone through a huge shift.

The reason for the huge shift in

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