Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Belief, Commitment and Hardwork

October 2009

“Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans”- Peter Drucker

We asked ourselves many times – What is the guarantee of success? None. Did we have the capabilty? Likely. Was our idea good enough? Maybe.

But then I always believe that the more important ingredient for success is the belief that we could do it. With this belief we could acquire the capabilty to do it even if we did not have it in the beginning, and we could overcome any obstacle to make the idea work. And unless we act with this belief at every step the chances of failure are very high.

I had belief in analyzeVietnam and the intent to give it my best shot, yet, how could I forget my biggest distraction – our one year old daughter Aabha. Aabha was the new found joy of our lives and she did not tire from offering me new and delightful challenges everyday. My latest challenge was to find the necessary time and energy required for a start-up and also satisfy my infant’s ever growing needs. Isn’t that the clichéd dilemma of every working mother?

So it turned out that most of my slog hours came after Aabha’s bedtime when I burnt the candle till late in the night. As analyzeVietnam development progressed my nights of hard labour only became longer and longer. I would go to bed exhausted only to be awakened in a few hours by my daughter crying for her milk and a diaper change. analyzeVietnam soon turned out to be a leech that sucked every spare moment and energy from Uyen and me. But the rush of adrenalin for analyzeVietnam and our commitment to the business compelled us to put in the hard work and to make the small sacrifices.

“The heights by great men reached and kept, were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upwards in the night”analyzeVietnam would be a true test of H W Longfellow’s words.

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