Believe In The Power Of Success Fate And Luck
hello friends i’m mahesh thakur i’m an
actor
i’ve been around for a very long time
you must have seen me
in movies television shows cereals
ad films the list is endless
yes i’ve been around for a long time and
do i consider myself successful
number one am i successful do i consider
myself successful
do you correct do you
consider me successful is the question
do i consider myself successful yes
do you maybe maybe not success the word
success
is measured by different yardsticks by
different people everybody has a
different way of looking at success
okay i’ll give you an example when you
were young
success for your mother was when you
took your first step
when she let go of that little finger
which you were holding and you took that
first step by yourself
she considered that successful and she
must have clapped you must have clapped
you must have been so exuberant so happy
that was successful i’ll give you
another example
when you were little and when you were
potty trained for the first time
that was successful you were successful
you see my friends the word success can
be applied to
varied timelines issues
but you yourself have to consider
yourself
successful to be alive just to be alive
just to take those
fantastic breaths which god has given
you it keeps you alive
that is successful to be successful in
my eyes at least
everything else is man-made it’s created
and
we use those yardsticks to measure
ourselves
but yes those yardsticks also do make
sense
of course because they give you a place
in the society
and we must always try to strive to
achieve to move ahead
that’s what life is about isn’t it
well so how do we approach
our successes in life we approach them
by
setting goals everybody has a goal in
life
but sometimes don’t keep your goals so
far that by the time you reach it you’re
too old to even enjoy it i used to keep
my goals
very small whatever i did i did with
complete passion
with complete energy because that was my
goal
and when i achieved it i felt successful
feeling feeling successful is very
important if you don’t feel successful
you cannot achieve you will not strive
so set your goals small achievable
but when you set out with complete
passion put your best foot forward
that’s what i did that’s what i’ve
always been doing
and then there is something which is
beyond comprehension of
anybody it’s called the power of the
universe
the power of the universe so in layman’s
language we call it luck
that plays out in such a it’s such a
varied
system that you you won’t even know why
you’re doing the things you’re doing and
before you know you’ve
done the greater things in life without
even setting out to achieve them
that’s purely because something called
luck plays out so as long as you’re
doing your little
little things in life focusing on your
little things the bigger things
come by themselves so remember that’s
the best way
to approach your life i would say
now coming back to me yes
who am i who am i
i didn’t actually have a goal in life
the goal of being an actor
i had a goal in life of uh doing things
which made me happy
acting was one of them yes
when i was uh i’m i’m not uh told you
where i’m from originally i am from
america central america panama and i’ll
give you a little example of how luck
plays out since i was on that topic
uh i was working in panama and my
company was
doing well but we needed this one big
order
you know because when the orders come in
your you execute those orders
there’s more movement of merchandise you
make more money and
the company grows you know how it works
so uh
it happened when i hit a flat tire
now you wonder how a flat tire is going
to be connected to the story i’m going
to tell you this is exactly what
happened so i was driving
and in panama where we live we have the
curbside where there’s a metal plate
and i made a turn of my car on the front
wheel climbed over it i’m sorry the back
wheel climbed over that metal plate and
it cut my tire
my father was angry with me he says you
know you’ve cut you’ve got a tire these
tires cost a lot of money
it’s a good 25 you’re going to be paying
i said yeah well i’m sorry you said well
you go and get it
fix it so when i went to the market to
search for the tires
they were expensive but there was this
place
in uh the free zone that’s where you
know you don’t pay taxes you know it’s
it’s like
an enclosure a free port there’s this
big company over there called trangulo
and i walked into that company to buy
one tire now mind you these places only
sell wholesale they they sell
it’s it’s a wholesaling whether they
sell a container load of tires
or you want anything to do with
merchandise it’s always going to be a
container load when you talk a container
load it’s like
one tire about if you talk about a tire
about more than
8 000 tires fit in a container so just
to give you an idea so when i went over
there
thinking they will sell me one piece i
went and inquired for the price
obviously they thought i was going to
purchase a lot they gave me a fantastic
price something like 13
i said okay can i have one
a person’s expression was something else
altogether he says we don’t sell one
i said i know but i’ve hit a flat tire
and you know it’s very expensive to buy
it outside the free zone so can you sell
me one
he says no yeah take it for free i don’t
need to sell you one
now when he said take it for free it
struck me that
a person who says take it for free
obviously is not someone who works in
the company the owner of the company
i asked him his designation he happened
to be the owner’s son he said yeah i own
the company
when i looked around he had merchandise
which
my company used to sell okay and
uh in those times there’s something
called the the fan with lights you know
it was called in spanish they called it
avaniko
i speak spanish just a little so i said
what price you selling that at he said
at so and surprise
and i said i could deliver this to you
much cheaper and that was my first deal
i cracked with a very big company
purely because i had a flat tire and i
wanted to get a good price
i walked into the free zone the time
when i went there the person i met
and things just worked out and that
person became the biggest
client for my company which i was
working for so just to give you an idea
similarly when i was in india when i
come to india i was i came here to meet
my grandmother to be with her and acting
just happened to me it happened because
of
friend of mine satla he is a
he’s a person from the industry he took
me for his
ad campaign i did one one thing led to
another that’s another story so anyway
coming back to my story over here where
i said luck played out
this story is a little bit more shocking
the reason being because uh
when i when i reached bombay i i used to
live with my family
and unfortunately uh we were living in
joint family
there were property issues and whatever
whatever
and believe it or not in the year 1996
my father had passed away and the
property had
been taken away by his rest of his
family i was left with nothing
and that same year i won a property
i was the recipient of the first prize
of the home tv family contest
but it’s about the timing it happened
precisely in the same
three months which i was
to be there in three months of losing a
property i won a property
luck that’s what luck is so uh
you you can search it up over there well
moving ahead
uh there’s lots to discuss with you
people but yes very important
luck is an important factor in life
never let go of it values are important
factor of like never
never let go of it and success success
is very important
to measure success everybody does it
with their own yardstick anyway
i shall speak to you more on this later
but i hope you enjoy the other speakers
i leave you with this factor that
there’s nothing greater than luck luck
is the most important factor in one life
keep your
goals focused keep it short keep it
steady and the big things will happen to
you automatically
much love to you always bye