Many of us would have many childhood dreams that have gone unfulfilled? As along the tides of life, we sacrifice many of our ambitions only to find some silly reasons to convince ourselves that, we have a better option.
Mother Teresa said,” God does not want us to succeed; He only wants us to try.”
This blog about the person whom we call our "father of the nation". He has been the subject to various criticisms varying from communal interests to his personal life. The reason is he had propelled his image to the heights to that of God and hence everyone wants to find a error in this human being's life.
Mahatma Gandhiji in his early days, was never the person to whom what we portray him to be today.
When Gandhi was 16, his wife was pregnant and his father was nearing death.
Leaving the old man ailing downstairs, Gandhi returned to his room where his wife had slept. He woke her and started to satisfy his lustful desire.
Within minutes a servant knocked and said, "Your father is no more."
Gandhi then said, "This shame of my carnal desire even at the critical hour of my father's death... is a blot I have never been able to efface of forget, and I have always thought that although my devotion to my parents knew no bounds ...yet it was weighed and found unpardonably wanting because my mind was at the same moment in the grip of lust. I have therefore regarded myself as a lustful, though a faithful husband. It took me long to get free from the shackles of lust, and I had a pass through many ordeals before I could overcome it".
These are powerful words from a person who had transformed himself into a nation’s leader from a simple man with worldly desires.
And now, we are able to see so many books on management and leadership on Gandhi’s life. To name a few,
1.The management guru in Gandhiji
2.Gandhi the CEO
3.Gandhi and Management
4.A Higher Standard of Leadership: Lessons from the Life of Gandhi
Giving up your own ambitions is similar to killing your own pet. After raising them affectionately so long, you decide to kill them as you see an easier option in which you do not have to compromise so much.
But then to evolve into a person we had once visualized, requires more sacrifices. For a person who wants to be a leader, the first person he needs to lead and manage is himself. When he cannot manage himself, it will be hard to explain the same with his sub-ordinates.
The most effective leaders in the world are those who set the standards themselves and lead from the front. This is where transformational leadership plays a major role. It rubs off to the employees. They always say expert power is the best power on employees.
It is always the ends which motivates the means and henceforth start visualizing the change you wanted to be. Make it a source of inspiration. I would say make it the only source of visualization. Live the Change and Get Changed!
“Be the Change you want to be” – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Jai Hind!
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