Building the life of your dreams
today as you watch me speaking beat on a
mobile phone
laptop or a tv there’s one thing that we
all need to understand is we are
privileged
this is because less than 50 of india
has access to internet
more than 800 million people that is
about i think 60
of the of this nation’s population is
living below the poverty line
now even after having all the basic
facilities
where you aren’t really need to think
about if you will be able to get the
next wheel of the day or not i believe
that people are not really making the
best use of it
so whenever i ask them this one
particular question that
do you think you can become virat kohli
anishka sharma barack obama
or maybe or maybe ronaldo in whatever
field you want to pursue
most of them like most of them either
say no
or choose not to answer it so
i think it’s it’s funny and sad at the
same time when they give
like i know a lot of people coming to me
and giving me excuses like
oh yuganj i don’t have the right
resources oh you can’t like i don’t have
the
enough money to start something or or
maybe my family don’t support me
and these kind of people can give you
billion excuses
see see listen listen i don’t know who
you are where you come from who your
father or mother is but
there’s one thing i can definitely tell
you today that
whatever you want to become you can
become for sure
you you can for sure be in the top few
percentages of that particular industry
is a belief and faith you need to have
in your city
i am not a motivational guru i am an
entrepreneur i am uganda chokra
i’m 21 years old i started my first
company when i was
when i was too young to do that i went
on international solo trips when i was
too young to do that and here you are
listening to me on this
tedx platform and as i speak i still
think
i’m not ready for it because in my
opinion because because i feel
there will never be a right time for any
right thing to do
you just have to do it in a particular
moment
most of my life the opportunities i got
or i should say the opportunities i
snatched i was never ready for them i
i’ll give you a quick brief about my
journey so i started my journey long
time back
when i had no clue about my life i
started my first company in
2014 i was in school probably in 10
standard yes yes intense standard
and i had this dream that i want to do
something of my own
so i built a website i created a
facebook page and
that’s it that was the launch of my
first company
i asked a friend of mine to create an
introduction video and
as far as i remember he used uh there’s
something called windows movie maker
that time so i guess and and there’s
just me who shared the post
now before even picking up it failed
no one was checking it out even the
graph you see
most of the time it’s either me or my
family
checking the website to see exactly what
is happening
then i thought i’m good at website
development so
let me start my own agency i created
another website
launched it on facebook again i had no
strategies no distribution network and
again
with with almost no clue on how to find
customers
uh again again it almost failed
so it was a one-man army with zero club
business
i thought this is not how it’s going to
work so i decided to take a break
i started writing cold messages on
facebook to entrepreneurs
and got a chance to work with a few of
them
so i i started learning how this
industry works and not particularly
industry but i started learning
how this how this startup ecosystem
works how you start your own company
how to lead a team so from writing
content to creating a distribution
channel to generating traffic to selling
ad spaces on website
i started doing everything my first ever
income or or i should say the company’s
revenue was 1000 indian rupees
now instead of focusing on how to get
more people
viewing or reading my blog i focused on
right micro
goals i focused on how to write content
that people would love to read
how to convert these visitors into
subscribers
how can i make my landing page better
how can i collaborate with other
bloggers because by this time i
started understanding that if i get
these things right i’ll eventually have
more and more people
coming and reading my blog so now these
micro goals helped me
achieve my ultimate goal of getting more
and more readers
so these micro also these micro goals
helped me reach the stage where i got
rising star blogger of the year 2016
award it was the first time i was
speaking in a conference hall i was
super nervous at that time
i remember exactly it was 5th august
2016 that was
also the first day of my college and i
had to miss that so that i can attend
this particular event
now then after this i started a
full-fledged registered company this was
the first time i became a director of
the company legally
and we also started getting some
traction and finally
we were able to get on the right track
i had no experience of leading a team i
mean i mean what do you expect from a
boy who just graduated who not even
graduate i should say who just
finished his school so i have never been
a monitor of my class in my entire
school life
still i was able to lead a team of 30
people
so now from working in college library
to scaling it up and hiring interns
across the world
our team was a very diverse team at that
time we had we had people from india
pakistan singapore
we had people from african countries
from america
uh from a few more south asian countries
and and also from europe
now and and then we got into one of the
finest incubators in the united states
so by this time i was finally
able to fulfill my dream of doing
something on my own
the another dream of mine was to travel
i always wanted to travel abroad but i’m
sure
every one of you realize here that
traveling to abroad can be a
really big deal it can be a real
expensive affair for a middle class
family
right so i wanted to visit at least once
then i saw some people going for
internships and different programs in my
college
so there’s someone inside me who always
pushes me and this person again said
that if they can do it you can do it too
so i start hunting such people and the
opportunities
uh back then it was kind of my full-time
task during the day
so what i used to do is i used to find
such opportunities such programs and
just apply apply a flag this this was my
daily routine but if i ask you to make a
guess
every one of you can guess it correctly
that every company every individual
every organization rejected me
and the thought which was initiated in
2016 i was able to
i was finally able to see some hope in
the first country i went to was france
now things started working for me and so
far i have been to
10 countries either on scholarship or
funded i have got 100 scholarships from
multiple organizations
now what we need to understand here is
rome wasn’t built in a day
elon musk didn’t build tesla in a day
beyonce didn’t become beyonce in a day
deer by ambani didn’t build reliance in
a day the first
step to building a life that you always
wanted to live is you don’t
stop that’s that’s not even an option
you take any example from elections to
getting a gold
medal in the in the olympics the student
who scores highest in the class
to the guy who creates maybe the best
painting there’s one thing common they
never stop they are very consistent with
their efforts
like have you have you ever seen a class
stopper who says
like this they had this inner feeling
and this is one of the most
important feeling you should be having
that uh whatever you want to do like
if i give you an example of topper they
have this feeling that mark’s coming
is
the second rule is you don’t focus on
the ultimate goal but
it should be there in your subconscious
mind now uh
what do i mean by this is like if i give
you another example so
can you reach the top of a building by
just focusing on
last step you certainly can’t right you
need to focus on the next step and
every step you take that will take you
closer to your
ultimate goal if i ask you how many of
you know
how khutul minar was built or if i ask
you
how burj khalifa was built you might be
knowing the story behind it
but it was built brick by brick one
brick at a time
no one starts with making a lot of money
no one starts with 100 000 followers
the people you look up to today they
also had limited resources you you
take a name of any celebrity most of
them had limited resources
the most important part is that they
never stopped
so what you need to understand is you
need to get the right mindset
when you will have that you would not
only transform you
you you’d transform the world around you
you and i all are here to contribute
something there are there’s a reason why
you are on this planet why i am on this
planet
just the reason you are watching me
today there’s a reason you decided to
stick to this talk
there’s a reason why speaking for the
last 8 10 15 whatever minutes
accept the fact that you are valuable
and also start valuing things around you
you should know who you are understand
how can you apply yourself
in the world to uplift yourself and
when you do that you also try to uplift
people around you
now before i end this talk i i really
want you to do something for yourself
tonight tonight when you go to the bed
before sleeping take a moment to think
about
who you really are and how can you help
people around you with the skills you
have
and trust me on this when you start
doing it
this can make a massive difference a
difference
beyond our imagination thank you so much