First step to conquer
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i’m about to ask you all a simple
question
five frogs sat on a lily pad and one of
them
decides to jump off from the lily pad
into the pond
now my question is tell me how many of
the frogs are still
sitting on the lily pad four
is what you assume i suppose but i’m
sorry
you’re wrong the answer is that there
are still
five frogs sitting on the lily pad and
you might be wondering
how is that even possible let me tell
you
the frog only decides to jump off from
the lily pad
remember life is a journey
and it begins not when you decide to do
something
but when you actually take an initiative
to move forward
and this journey of life begins by
taking that single step
and not by thinking to take that step
hi everyone i’m hasani lakshmi narayanan
an 8th grader here to present my
territory
first step to conquer everyone
has talent but what is missing
is the courage to carry forward that
talent
to the dark place where it leads this
pandemic collectively
had changed all our lives at some extent
but for me it was the start of my
boredom
i started interviewing a few of my
friends
then created and documented videos sent
it to their fathers to suppress them on
father’s day
it just takes a small spark to ignite
the fire
and so did my interactions with dr
nilmal krishnan
my dad’s good friend her advice really
propoled me
in initiating my very own startup at the
age of 12.
i consider her as my mentor and she has
rentlessly supported me since day one
now i would like to share few lines
which she shared with me
about the first step the first step
the first step is about your first dream
the first step is about believing in
yourself
the first step is about accepting your
first
compliment with grace the first step
is about attracting positive energies
from the cosmos
the first step is about encouraging
others with your stories
another source of inspiration for me is
mr
sujit kumasa the founder of martram
foundation
his zara his presence on the stage and
his choice of words
really helped me nourishing the way i
carry myself
and this has resulted in me being
appreciated
by all my listeners and viewers from
across the world
when you take that leap towards making
your dream a reality
you experience a different kind of
happiness
a sense of accomplishment of fulfillment
and that is when you soon realize that
this happiness
was your own creation and no one else is
responsible for it
but yourself you are the master of your
own destiny
as i’m taking baby steps towards my goal
i fully realize that setbacks will be
there
and how i respond to these setbacks are
going to determine how my future
and our shape up i am learning from
every experience today and a full well
know that if i’m going to keep up with
this
i will be there as a successful leader
one day
let me tell you something my success did
not come without its fair share of
struggles
and one such instance was when i did my
very first shoot for avatar life
i was comfortable doing my interviews on
online mode
but also understand the dynamics of
social media
and what people expect from us and
behaved accordingly
but this time we had two cameramen
sitting in front of us
and a director watches carefully and
this
all of a sudden made me very conscious
and the most
embarrassing was when the young achiever
whom i was interviewing
started helping me out on how to
question her
that day we had to shoot a shot where
that young achiever was baking
i as i’m a vegetarian i was very fond of
breaking eggs and at least wanted to do
it once
i asked my friend if i could try
breaking it i did not know how to do it
and just cracked it open on the floor i
did not know that it would smell so bad
i could barely smell my hand that day
a boon and a bane is the advent of
social media
a lot of people appreciated the work i
did
but there were also a few who disagreed
and that is when i started getting
negative comments
initially it used to really bother me
but now i have learned how to overcome
constructive criticism
and just ignore the rest i used to hear
people
saying let me see how long she’ll be
able to continue this
as my earlier undertaking with bhajan
and bharanatyam did not go well
i couldn’t pursue it further so i had
the precedence
but then i decided instead of justifying
what people had to say about me
let me share it with my actions after
all
i believe that action speaks louder than
words
fighting with your inmost souls is just
like crossing the seven seas in a row
but once it’s crossed you’ll feel
liberated
my acronym which i would like to call
craft which i believe that
every child starter would face this word
is also a palindrome
and if you’re wondering what a
palindrome is even
if you’re going to spell it the other
way around it is going to sound the same
f which stands for facing criticism
now this comes with fame my friends who
initially missed me
due to my interview schedules have now
understood the work i do and have
started supporting me
a which stands for acceptance
young achievers the people who my
interview were hesitant to accept my
invitation as they’ve already been on
popular tv shows
and have been hosted by popular co-stars
but then today
90 percent of them have accepted our
invitation
once they see my profile r
which stands for reaching out to new
subscribers
this is an ongoing process and you just
have to ensure that you
keep your audience engaged c
which stands for continuing the
motivation
when i started i had hundred percent
motivation
i felt the positivity and i had high
expectations
that my very first interview would reach
up to 100k
views but it was the other way around
and we all will have to agree with the
fact that we
continue to grow until we continue to
work hard
and the only way is to sustain our
motivation for every single video
r which stands for reviling the stress
i personally had to face this a lot when
i had to give up my source of
entertainment which is laptop and
playing
but then i kept reminding myself about
my mission of inspiring and empowering
children
and also about the other stories of the
other young achievers
a which stands for aids barrier this
is one of the most common challenges
faced by any child startup
and i had to face this when i had to be
a reporter for brain feed and hindu
the initial thoughts were that i was
only 12 years old
but people who said that have taken back
what they
said once they read my articles
f which stands for financial challenges
every child’s initial financial backup
is their parents
until they find their own sponsors and
until they have been funded
they will have to use the available
resources and these are the seven big
challenges which i believe
any child starter would face
i have always been a curious child like
most children
as children when we see the world we see
endless possibilities and my journey
from where i was to where i am now today
is an interesting one and all of it
started as i was bored
and like other children i too attended
regular schooling and along with this
i attended a lot of classes which
include bhajan bharanatyam
public speaking arts which i completed
much faster than others would do
little did i have achieved is because i
had a set goal
and today i am prepared and have planned
my strategies
and at this junction i would like to
share a survey
which was done way back in 1956
in ayles university the researchers
surveyed on how many of the children
studying in the al’s university had
written goals
and found out the shocking results that
only
three percent of them had written goals
twenty years later they went back to the
same people and found out that
the three percent of the people who had
written goals
had accumulated three times more wealth
than the 97 percent combined
and during this journey of the first
step i had privilege
interacting with some extraordinary
children who most were
my age i were to learn about their
struggles
their perseverance how they never gave
up and one of the most common things in
all of them
which were they were the masters of
their own destiny
they manufacture their own happiness and
now i would like to share about a few of
them
kritik who’s the founder ceo of the
future of robotics
he himself being only 14 years old he
can train children on robotics
kaushal raj who is the owner of the
milet app
minisha uma shankar who is the inventor
of the solar ironing cart
mahindra now is helping her by funding a
project
not only this but she also has invented
two other inventions
vinusha who’s a young baker who’s also
an entrepreneur
who’s got funding at the very early age
of 10
yashwanth who is the very first indian
to back
four medals in the culinary olympics
which was
held in germany in 2020
advaith was only seven years old and
young artist
who’s done exhibitions worldwide and his
paintings are literally sold in lags
today
siddharth pili who is the youngest data
scientist in asia
he is being paid at the very early age
of 13
he goes for work for three days and he
goes for school for the other three days
alternatively listening to all of these
young
achievers my mind started exploring to
the outer world
and the options which i thought
previously did not exist
started becoming my reality and now i
now request you to tell me who this
person is on the screen
yes that’s right this is sachin
tendulkar
and sachin tendulkar when he was young
lived at his aunt’s house just for a
single reason
that there was a cricket field nearby
his aunt’s house
and imagine how clear he was at that
very early age of fight
that he wanted to become a cricketer and
as you all may know his dreams came true
when he played for india at the age of
and other famous personality on the
screen could you tell me who this
is i’ll give you a clue he was one of
the former presidents of america
and his name starts with the bill
yes that’s right this is bill clinton
and if you were to read his
autobiography you may probably know that
clinton when he was young went with
school
principal and once said that he wanted
to become the president of america one
day and
imagine if you were put into a situation
where you were asked to go and tell your
teacher
that you want to become a president what
do their reaction be
let me tell you they may probably laugh
at you and ask you
have you done your homework yet right
the same thing happened to clinton as
well but
the fact of matter is that not once but
for two consecutive terms
bill clinton was the president of
america
now this is where you might stop me and
sam
but these are all extraordinary children
they’re genius
who had a set goal at a very young age
now could you tell me who this is
she is a young youtuber yes
that’s indeed me but this is what i
believe
there is a genius in all of us a genius
is one percent inspiration and 99
percent perspiration
and now i would like to share about a
few of my friends who are indeed genius
who are child prodigies dr prisha who’s
only
nine years old who got and horned
adopted at the very
early age of nine she is the youngest
yoga guru who can train visually
challenge children
marisha karwa who is also called as the
princess of slum
ananya raja rahman who’s the global
child prodigy of 2020
she had already published two books
now do only child prodigies exhale
i did a survey to find out on how many
of the children
whom i have interviewed are indeed child
prodigies
and found out the shocking results that
only 38 percent of them
are indeed child prodigies and the rest
have been recognized and have been
identified
by their parents and mentors
and also while doing this survey i found
out that all of these children
are being supported by their parents
beyond all this not just behind my name
lakshmi narayan and my father
who had consistently supported me since
day one
and to all those other young achievers
whom their parents and mentors have
supported them
there are many other child prodigies who
still
unidentified now my
question to all the parents in here is
that
do you spend valuable time finding out
what your
child’s interest is or did you
impose your interest to your child’s
life
have you ever taken an initiative to
find out what your child’s calling is
i strongly believe in what a former
president dr apj abdul kalam said
you have to dream before your dreams can
come true
a dream is not something which you see
while you’re sleeping
it is something which does not let you
sleep
ask yourself what makes you happy write
it down in a book and do this for at
least two months
and at the end of two months go through
the book and see what you have repeated
the most
and that is what most likely you are
passionate about
go talk to your family your well-wishers
and tell them that
this is what you want to do and take
that leap towards making your dream
a reality 10 months back
if someone had asked me this question
would you be able to do all of this
i would have definitely said no but here
i am
standing out as the founder of the first
step my very own startup
and also as a reporter of brainfeed high
magazine and hindu school edition
today i make sure that i write one
article every week and have published
over 12 articles so far
also vj for avatar live and our glitz
every child is born with the quality of
genius
unfortunately only if you understand
this
and that is why i chose this platform to
convey my message
for the need for the first step to both
the parents and the children
i would again like to repeat the mantra
of the first step
the first step the first step is about
your first
dream the first step is about believing
in yourself
the first step is about accepting your
first compliment
with grace the first step is about
attracting
positive energies from the cosmos the
first step
is about encouraging others with your
stories
i would also like to share few success
principles
which was helpful for me during this
journey and which i believe that would
be helpful for you as well
there are no failures only feedbacks
once you have a target do whatever it
takes
till the time is legal moral ethical
choices have consequences past
is not equal to future for things to
change
i must change first remember
the first step matters either on the
moon or on the earth
taking that leap towards making your
dream a reality
towards your path of happiness is
important
i have conquered it and you are only
responsible for your success
and this journey of mine would not stop
until i reach through the stars
which shine up showing up lied to many
other young children of me
thanking for the opportunity this is
hasani lakshmi narayan and signing out
founder of the first tip thank you