Breaking one’s own shell

 

 

It has been more than 2 years since I visited this most favorite place of mine and it has been more than 3 years since I visited my Tamil blog. This is weird!  Writing is one of my craziest passions that helps me in relaxing my arteries and neurons but then priorities keep changing. Today until I started writing this post, never ever had the intention of kick starting my blog again. Disturbed sleep at 3 am and a blank mind reminded me of this place to revisit and rejuvenate!

 

It has been a roller coaster ride for the past 3 years balancing both SRM and FirstLanguage. Both SRM and FirstLanguage have groomed me a lot as a person.  This post is actually about my experiences after starting FirstLanguage. FirstLanguage was started in the year 2021.  Business was new to our family and we did not have any mentors in our family. That’s when I understood my journey as a teacher was relatively well planned ahead of time because of the fact that my mom is a Tamil Professor who is the first of her kind in her family. First generation struggles are huge and that’s what we had to undergo after starting FirstLanguage. Don’t worry this is not an article on our struggles as they are never ending. Rather, this post is on the learnings that changed my vision towards life in many aspects. Let me see how can I make it interesting so that you feel like to continue to read without quitting 😊

 

Me as a person, before 4 years back, never ask for professional help. Be it resource person opportunities or research collaborations, it all happened on its own. I am thankful and grateful to all Professors and researchers in my professional network who gave me tremendous opportunities and this is surely a great blessing. In case of FirstLanguage, this rigid personality of mine was a great barrier in opening doors for us. Then after long time I learned that we are creating a win-win situations and we are not asking for help when we try to promote our company’s products to the clients. So, I broke the “Not asking” shell of mine eventually 😊 Of course I get a lot of mentoring help from the entrepreneur community these days. I will write about it mentioning each one of them some time later.

 

“Entrepreneurial mindset” itself has more toughness in it and I had to put and I am still putting more efforts to build that mindset. As an employee I see my fruit every one month in the form of salary 😊 but that is not the case with FirstLanguage. Failing continuously for long time to see even a small victory and working towards a large vision needs a lot of mind workout without letting the fancy term, “depression” into life 😊. Initially it was so exhausting to face failures but then now I see that as an  opportunity to align with the right direction. I think that’s how Universe works and it responds. I am a  strong believer of Universe and that’s how I think every atheist perceives God 😊. Universe keeps redirecting us based on our efforts and eventually takes us to the destined place. This mindset of accepting failures have given me a great clarity in handling many other aspects of life! Staying emotionally detached in professional life has done wonders.  So, nothing to lose 😊

 

I have never been a good task extractor and I could only make people work better if they are already good and that is actually bad ☹ As we move up the ladder be it in any profession, we need to enable others to grow by training them on their tasks. This was really difficult to me and I am getting better at tuning people to the professional requirements these days. I think so 😊.

 

Still, I believe there is lot more to learn and unlearn to get better and better until the last day of mine😊Let us see how this goes! This is what I had to say here by extracting tit-bits from my tired neurons and it is time to kick start the day already. Thanks for reading. Have a great day ahead!

 

Subalalitha