Countdown to Countdown - Day 21

Yesterday, I spoke about Goals and how they are related to dreams. Now on, during the rest of the countdown I wish to share some success stories. Stories of ordinary  people like you and me who had extraordinary dreams and they achieved them. There are many such stories but those many still are a handful!

As we prepare ourselves for Dream Live, Lets also look at our own dreams and find ways to achieve them. Let me emphasize again that dreams have to be Big, they have to be the best that you can do or the best that you can be! 
The poem selected by Bharadwaj Dayala is so apt, Dreams need that grit, perseverance and being able to visualise success. The 'never quit attitude', goes a long way. 
Just read a quote by another super achiever, " No way as way and no limitations as limitation." Make way where there's no way and there's no limitation to anything that you want to pursue or do!
Found this very profound indeed. Achievers need to have that kind of a foresight. That becomes the driving force for them. With that attitude how can anyone even think of failing? Success comes to those who believe in themselves and have that 'do or die' attitude!

I think I am quite fortunate to meet individuals who dreamt big for themselves and have realised  those dreams as well. They are not the famous faces but people who live among us. One such example is a recent message I received from an old student of mine. The message read, " Ma'aaam... I bought a car with my own money. Very happyyy today. Want to thank you for inspiring us.... Got to learn a lot from you." I replied,"Congrats". I was thinking in my mind 8 years after passing out buying his own car was okay, was it actually such a big deal? I read the message again, I remember that student to be very focused and had a good understanding and foresight. I asked which car he had bought. To that he said he'd send the picture. I received the picture the very next moment and the car was an Audi,  A4 Premium Plus. I was impressed, not with the car but the achievement of that student. Again, I wish to highlight that you never know whom you inspire and how!

There are many such people I know, I am sure there are many more of them out there. Such people become an inspiration for others. The achievement is of varying degrees, whats too good for one may not be anywhere close to the benchmark for the others. Its relative, so everyone has to try to be the best that they can be.

Would love to hear your dream stories. A lot of us believe in the magic of that secret. 

Tell us your stories too and will share them with others, you never know when someone gets inspired and your story changes a life.

Follow #DreamLive to witness how dreams become reality. Bharadwaj Dayala, the first Indian to go around the world on a motorcycle, will show us how to live our own dreams by realising his dream of riding from Russia to South Africa in just 100 days starting with nothing.  He'll then help 12 to 24 passionate bikers to live their dream of riding in a foreign country by getting sponsors for them.

DreamLive: Dare to dream and care to achieve it.

https://www.facebook.com/BJsDreamLive

@letsdreamlive

Countdown to Countdown - Day 23

I must thank all the people who are joining us in this beautiful, inspirational and a meaningful journey. Yes its going to be a long one but we are going to devour every moment. I can see the readership building and what I deduct from that is everyone now wants to see what unfolds. Hold on, the process kick starts only on the 1st of March, as we start the 100 day campaign. I am your anchor, 'Sutradhar' as it is called in Hindi. I want to get you all ready for the 100 days when our dream takes off. Your interest and later on participation will be the key. Now that doesn't mean that we have no plans, yes plan is there in place and each day we are getting insights of the project. As I have called it my PhD, I am looking at all aspects. The pivot will still be the readers and participants.

I found this quote by Bharadwaj Dayala, profound
A writer is almost like God
He creates his own world and its people
And most importantly
Like God, he loves all his characters,
Good or bad equally.

All of us shall get an opportunity to become that 'writer', Dream Live needs inputs from all. That shall create the food for thought for this project.

The team has already started working on all aspects to keep the stage ready for the big day, March 1st. That's when all the participants and readers will step on that 'stage' and create their own plan that shall slowly but certainly find its way through till all is achieved! In the meanwhile do some introspection and find out what your dreams are. what do you aspire to be?

Dreams

We have been speaking about dreams. Is there a dearth of them?...Not at all, even common people dream, they dream big and have the capabilities to realise them. Dreams are always positive affirmations of success, and achieving greater heights and purpose. No one dreams to be a failure or become unsuccessful in something. Its not the dream that gives the negatives but the dreamer who probably questions his own capabilities. At times, rather than finding ways to realise the dream we may start compiling a list of things because of which the dream shall never be achieved. Concentrate on the first aspect, believing in your dreams and  everything else will fall in place. Believe in the magic of that dream and stick to it as if your life was dependant on it. And see how it is realised! Staying put and holding on to it! are the key words for today!

Believe me, if you can conceive it, you can achieve it. It only depends on how much you are willing to work for it. Anything is possible. Yes sometimes we are limited by our physical, mental or social conditions but even then each person has a skill in a different field of activity. You need to find what you excel in and then aim for the greatest position in that activity. And when you look around with such higher goals in mind, you will start seeing opportunities opening up to facilitate your dream to come live. It may take some time and a lot of effort. But if you can dream of it you can achieve it.

Break your bonds, cross your boundaries and GO BEYOND.

Would love to hear your dream stories. A lot of us believe in the magic of that secret. 

Tell us your stories too and will share them with others, you never know when someone gets inspired and your story changes a life.

Follow #DreamLive to witness how dreams become reality. Bharadwaj Dayala will show us how to live our own dreams by realising his dream of riding from Russia to South Africa in just 100 days starting with nothing. He'll then help 12 to 24 passionate bikers to live their dream of riding in a foreign country by getting sponsors for them.

DreamLive: Dare to dream and care to achieve it.

https://www.facebook.com/BJsDreamLive

@letsdreamlive

Countdown to Countdown - Day 24

Hello Everyone!

We are now 24 days to go! somehow I like the number 24 and the date 5th! Don't know why but these two numbers look good and so does Dream Live. We are getting some fans and some people teaming with us on this absolutely voluntary and inspiring endeavour. 

I would like to thank the bloggers who I notice have started following my posts. Would love to hear from them, it certainly motivates me to keep scribbling my thoughts. I have seen the work of some of them and I know where they come from. Thanks.

The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world , are the ones who do.  ~Steve Jobs 

This is the 5th day of the Coutdown, I wish to share with you a bit from my own experiences, I am just a girl next door. Had my own goals, believed in them and have achieved whatever little I aspired and I keep looking at new goals and aiming to realise them as well just like a lot of you reading this. Something that I feel is significant and wish to share with you is getting married was a big decision as everything else would change from then. As I learnt more about my husband and we started understanding each other I told him what I visualised for us. And in 8 years of our marriage I guess we have achieved all that we shared with each other. 

I visualise things even for Dream Live and I believe that we are all going to achieve the target that we have set for ourselves. I will consider this as my PhD. Yes I am a doctoral candidate and almost half through my research but now the university wants me to attend 3 months classes fulltime, and the campus is far away in another city, this is very difficult for me at this point. It is possible but I don't want to do anything that will affect my children in anyway. When I associate with the Project I want to give myself the satisfaction of having earned a PhD when we realise our dream here in front of all connected. Afterall that's the purpose of any study, to visualise something, work towards it and make it happen, at the same time empowering and guiding others to achieve that. 

We need to have long term as well as short term goals. The moment we do that all the obstacles appear as pebbles on the pathway!.... and they are very easy to overcome.

Join us on facebook and follow us on Twitter for all the excitement building on to tour the world again on a motor cycle. Here, see the Dream going live and finally becoming a reality.

Follow #DreamLive to witness how dreams become reality. Bharadwaj Dayala will show us how to live our own dreams by realising his dream of riding from Russia to South Africa in just 100 days starting with nothing. He'll then help 12 to 24 passionate bikers to live their dream of riding in a foreign country by getting sponsors for them.

DreamLive: Dare to dream and care to achieve it.

https://www.facebook.com/BJsDreamLive

@letsdreamlive

#DreamLive - Who am I?

In my last post I spoke about Bharadwaj Dayala, the first Indian to go around the world alone on a motor cycle.  He achieved that feat in 2006/ 07, a lot of us had no clue about the man or his achievements, I tried to find as much information on him as was possible. I got an opportunity to speak to him, did  the post on him. I also spoke about his upcoming project DreamLive. DreamLive is going to be unique no one has thought about a thing like this, in the whole world. It'll be people's project, and they'll see the dream of touring around the world on a motor cycle that Dayala has visualised being realised in front of them. 

My post has found tremendous response people have read it and recommended it. Its still being shared and I am getting friend requests in 100s now,  mostly from bikers. This makes me introduce myself to the readers. As people may wonder whats my role in the project? Why am I writing about it? and a whole lot of other queries. 

Me

I am not a professional blogger, I don't do any paid writing either. I am a hospitality professional and a Professor. My expertise, if it can be called at all is Learning and Development , I earned my Masters is Training and Development. This is what I do and writing is just a way of expressing myself and connecting with people. I am married to a Master mariner Capt. Rajesh Todiwan, the best friend that I have he can read me like a book. I am a mother of two boys, yes they are growing up and I am learning new things from them each day. My hands are full, dancing around the different roles that I play like all the other women. I guess this tells a lot about me. I am certainly not a biker but I follow the passion and I connect well with people who have dreams, passions that they follow in life. Who aspire to achieve their goals and whose goals are not the conventional ones. Its equally satisfying to see others  realise their dreams.

I thought people need to know about me as they'll hear a lot more from us henceforth, as a part of team DreamLive. Dayala is an achiever but I am an unknown face in the crowd. Yes whatever little I have done in my life I am proud of who I am and what I have achieved. I shall connect with my readers and all the individuals who will hop on to team DreamLive, bikers, non bikers, youngsters, older people, dreamers, achievers and anyone who wants to be a part of this dream and watch it going live. I explained the project to Capt. Todiwan who is anyway going around the world on his chemical tanker, he liked it, he becomes the first fan as far as Dream Live for me is concerned. It shall be driven by people that's what we have visualised and we are hopeful that as planned it shall be launched on 1st Match 2014 and 100 days from then it'll take off with Dayala going on his second World tour.

Dream Live

Dream Live will engulf you and your time in the coming year. It's a Unique project, will connect to youth as well as the older people. Social media will be used in a big way and it shall be a Hit! The scale of the project is large and exciting. You are going to love it.

As Dr. Abdul Kalam says, " Dream is not that which you see while sleeping it is something that does not let you sleep".

People don't want to dream as it brings a lot of stress, is time consuming and is difficult to achieve but its never impossible. People who dream big are the ones who have the courage to go at them and make them a reality. Dreams are exciting, enriching and very fulfilling. Working towards achieving those dreams is the most satisfying experience. Its not just the destination but the journey becomes enjoyable. Dayala says when he preparing for a target be it a tour of India on his bike, climbing the mountain or doing the world tour, he hardly sleeps. He's working all the time and that gives him immense satisfaction.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created detective Sherlock Holmes, it was his dream creation. That dream grew very big and he became bigger than Sir Doyle. He thought of killing that character and did so but the readers didn't like it and he started losing them, he had to bring Sherlock Holmes back to life. The character had to be revived. That's what dreams are all about.

An individual needs to look far and wide, think how he can work on his dream, make a time line for the project and then see it reaching one milestone from another. Finally the desired goal or dream is achieved.

Dream Live shall be launched on 1st of March but we begin with the Countdown to the Countdown from today.

The next post will be 28- Count down begins!