Design A Perfect Life With Grit And Determination

Destiny Favors Those Who Possess Grit and Determination

A young, dynamic and ambitious Chartered Accountant, Chirag Chauhan is an accomplished businessman today and an inspiration to many. While inaugurating his new office on the same day that left him wheelchair-bound 15 years back, he reminisces the arduous journey from 11 July, 2006 to the present day with utmost pride and confidence for himself. Chirag, a 21-year-old aspiring boy, who was pursuing CA then, was returning home when a series of bomb blasts struck Mumbai and he found himself lying in the pool of blood, amid the wounded passengers and burnt dead bodies at Santacruz. Little he was aware about the fact that he was going to face the most harrowing reality of his life as he had suffered a spinal cord injury that left both his legs and lower body paralyzed. Chirag was compelled to think again and again why God had chosen him for this catastrophe? Why he only had to suffer all this?

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The next three years were even more grueling as Chirag’s daily routine comprised eight hours of painful physiotherapy and six hours of study but he was determined to complete his CA and wanted to fulfill all his dreams and aspirations. After clearing his CA Examination, he started a job with an MNC. In 2012 he opened a small office and kept on adding more and more clients. Last year, during lockdown he founded a platform offering virtual taxation service and the portal started getting 10,000 hits daily. Now Chirag is all set to begin a new journey after winning his battles against all odds, proving to everyone that failure doesn’t exist at all, it’s always about rising after a fall. His grit and determination finally changed his destiny.

In an another story, destiny had to change its course because of determination and intense aspiration of Sonam Malik, Indian wrestler who is going to represent India in the upcoming Tokyo Olympics in the 62 category. In the year 2017, she suffered a nerve-related twinge in her right arm and everything seemed to be shattering in front of her eyes as her right side was paralyzed. The young, aggressive fighter wasn’t able to hold anything and her doctor advised her to forget about wrestling and focus on her treatment. Now everything was left on her fate; if destiny favored her, Sonam would be again on the mat. As her father had a meagre income and couldn’t afford expensive hospitals, they started ayurvedic methods to heal her. Within six months of her treatment she recovered as if God wanted her to be back on the mat. With rigorous training after her recovery, she became the youngest Indian woman wrestler to qualify for the Olympics and she found her destiny to be on her side with her determination to continue with the sport.

In both the stories one thing was common and that is winners and achievers are not the ones who never tryst with adversities in their lives but they are the ones who rise with more strength and determination after each fall. Life isn’t a bed of roses, especially for those who aren’t satisfied with an ordinary life; but a constant pursuit of excellence with perseverance and resilience. Let’s never forget that determination is one of the greatest motivating forces that keeps us consistently moving ahead to succeed no matter how rough and bumpy the road is!

Being Determined OR Being Skilled?

Being determined is more important than being skilled or intelligent. These innate talents and expertise can create opportunities for you but these opportunities can be converted into achievements only through grit and determination. Even a person with an average talent when puts in his hard work into something he can transform it into success. As we know determination keeps us moving towards our goal and staying focused on it, we learn to win despite the odds and obstacles throughout the way, we learn to overcome whatever contributes to our fragility and vulnerability.

Determination Makes You a Decision Maker

As we all know life is a short journey from B to D; B stands for birth and D for death, whatever comes in between is C and that’s all about the Choices we make in our life. So making right choice is very important. Determination brings clarity, creativity and competence to us to decide upon the various uncertainties in life and how to find the positive dimensions in everything. A perfect decision in career or personal life is just like a platform to stir us from within and enable us to leapfrog to the optimum levels of our mindset and living. Determination is all about making right choices during troubled times and helps us insulate ourselves from the negative forces

Determination Instills Optimism

Determination strengthens us to bear with unexpected and uncertain challenges in life and thus instills hopefulness and optimism. It trains our mind to never harbour doubts or remorse over the past incidents and look forward to new vistas for better prospects in life. A determined person accepts life’s unpredictability and never loses his sensibility when met with setbacks and challenges; eventually learns to take every fall or failure as an opportunity to learn. It makes you a good planner and a perfect planner never takes a step back when it comes to take risks and gradually it transforms you completely; from a player you become a game changer.

It won’t be an exaggeration to say that determination lays the foundation of success and fulfillment in life. Among all the virtues, qualities and capabilities determination takes precedence; You Can Design A Perfect Life With Grit And Determination.

The story doesn’t end here; determination has something more to say, Asha Kandara, a sweeper from Jodhpur, Rajasthan has drafted her glorious destiny with her firm determination to clear Rajasthan Administrative Service Examination to soon be posted as a Deputy Collector. Dear Reader, are you set to write your destiny with determination?