ISSUE 02 | FEBRUARY 2020
BIKERS CLUB ® MAGAZINE | PAGE 53
I was an ambitious person since my college days
and had many dreams, but soon I realized that
Dreams that not converted into goals remain only
dreams, and goals without a timeline are just like
a ride without a destination. So to achieve
anything, you must have goals with a timeline. It's Important to have the next dream when you
achieve one. If you have the next dream, you will
always be passionate, but if you forget about
making a dream and you remain happy, whatever
you have achieved in life, then your growth will be
stagnant.
I had a dream during my college days that within
8 to 10 years, I will be the Sales & Marketing Head
in a reputed company. I didn't know then; how I
would achieve that, but I had put a timeline and
had confidence that I would achieve it. There is a very fine difference between an
ordinary and the extraordinary, and that
difference is the word extra.
After my management degree during my
interview days many companies rejected me but
the company who selected me and a person who
took my interview who eventually became my
boss in that company told me "Pankaj, you have
an unrealistic dream, you know I am more
educated than you and have more qualifications
than you, I have got 22 years of experience; still I
have not become Sales & Marketing Head, so I
advise you to please tone down your dreams
otherwise you will not rise in life, and you will feel
demotivated after some time."
In the interview itself, I answered him, "Sir, I am
sorry, and I don't know why you could not
become, but I am going to achieve my goals in 8
to 10 years.
And as I had targeted, in the 7th year of my
career, I became Sales & Marketing Head with
Hero Motors, a leading automobile company in
India.
I learned and realized another crucial lesson that
One should have a dream and goals with a
timeline, and when you achieve it, then you
should have another dream ready.
In the life journey, dreams are inevitable, one
dream leads to another and another, but you
should never stop dreaming.
Those who can dare to dream can achieve it.
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If you want to achieve something extra, then you
have to do something extra in whatever manner
you can. This extra eventually will make you
extraordinary in life.
Extra means, extra efforts to upgrade yourself, to
achieve the targets of your company and more of
it to push your limits and capability. This simple
mantra of doing extra will straight away put to
the list of that 3 % of people who rule the world.
Throughout my journey, I have been in many
companies and worked with great personalities
and bosses, but one thing I learned and applied
to myself is to keep "out of the box thinking," and
to be as innovative as one can, because when you
do what others can't think of; will make you stand
out.
In your career path, the switch is essential when
you realize that you have learned enough from
one company, and now you have reached the
stagnancy, then it's time for you to switch for
another, not just for a pay hike or post-hike, but
the self up-gradation.
Always remember the circle theory in life.
We all have circles in which we work when you
realize you have learned enough from the circle in
which you are working; time to break that circle
and switch it another then another, but you have
to make sure that you don't close the door of that
circle from which you have switched.
Switching does mean unethical switch, but you
should switch proving your performance, and you
have to keep switching until you achieve your
ultimate goal.