As Albert Einstein famously quoted “Imagination is the preview of life’s coming Attractions”. So Begins the Chapter ten of my memoir. In order to achieve our goals and live the life which we have imagined, we have to first visualize and dream. This is one hundred percent true that when you want to achieve something in life, you have to strongly visualise it. Only then can your belief in that direction be strengthened and only then can you live the dream you have envisioned. What I want to talk about in this chapter is something very different. I want to talk about the fact that if the dreams you have are your own dreams, you alone have to pay the price! Because it often happens that the dreams we see gradually become a burden on someone else’s shoulders. Someone else has to pay the price for it. Before we talk about this in detail, let’s look at some of the significant incidents in my life. Today I am established as a businessman, but in my life I have done varied jobs getting exposed to different job profiles and experiences. I started my work career in a call center, later, I also worked in a cyber cafe, as a yarn broker, as a LIC Agent and at one time I also worked as a DJ. I have done different things at different stages of my life and I have done things wholeheartedly, giving my hundred percent efforts. Because to me, no work is big or small. I have strongly believed that there is no substitute for hard work and only hard work can bring success. But will anyone believe that I have done such work from time to time? The answer lies in the question of the first paragraph of this chapter. The answer is that it is my strong belief that my dreams should not be a burden to anyone else, especially my mom and dad. Because it often happens that the whole life of the parents is spent in fulfilling the dreams of their children. And in the end, there is no glory in the destiny of the parents. Coming back to my family, so at that time we were living a nice upper middle class lifestyle. And my dad could very well fulfil our dreams. But I didn’t want my mom and dad to do personal sacrifices or work harder to fulfil my new dreams. Because for an upper middle class family, my aspirations and my dreams where considered as luxury at that time. Another important reason was that my dad had to struggle a lot in his life due to an accident, which often forced him to take time off from work for medical care and treatment. Ultimately it affected my dad’s career. However, I will write about that in detail in the next chapter. Since I was a teenager, I dreamt of accomplishing something significant in life. I visualized my dreams and worked harder to achieve them. In the summer vacations of my 11th Std, I started working at a pager call centre called PageLink as a PSO. The requirement for the job profile was a minimum college registration, I got the job and cleared the interview because of my confidence and aptitude and actually lied about my age to work. I specially chose a night shift job from evening 8 pm to morning 8 am, because my studies, workout and games would not be affected. At that age I enjoyed sports and especially gyming. This was the time when I also started Personality Transformation. At that time extra money helped to pay my gym fees and buy a lot of books that I used to read for my transformation. However, I didn’t work only to earn pocket money or reduce my dad’s financial burden. At the time, I was just as interested in skills development and gain hands-on experience at work. To give an example, I was a student of St Xavier’s, so English was my natural strength. But one of my intentions of working in a call centre at that time was to improve my coordination skills, evolve corporate etiquette and upscale my english at a different level so I could confidently appear in front of everyone. As I mentioned earlier, I also worked as a manager in a cyber cafe. This was a time when surfing for half an hour would cost seventy to eighty rupees. And at that time as a manager I needed to learn basics about internet and develop internet surfing skills. This was the period when a whole class was getting acquainted with the term internet and I was immersed in it and learning something new. Again, I had the privilege and access to unlimited access of Internet, I chose to sacrifice my fun evenings and bonding time with my buddies as I chose work. I have done many such things during my vacations or leisure time. Not that I did all this at the expense of my education. But during my student life, whenever I got the spare time, I chose to make it productive, updating myself rather than wasting it. Looking back today, I would like to thank lord Krishna the most. Otherwise, without God’s blessing, how could I have understood all this during my young days? Such a profound understanding that I should not give the burden of my dreams to my parents during my teen years is indeed pure blessings from the lord. All the jobs that I have done in life have only enriched my skills and expertise. I have learned something new and useful from each of my varied experiences. One of them being how to face challenges and overcome them. Every work I did only motivated me to strive for something bigger. I started dreaming more and more. All the experiences have helped me adopt a positive approach towards life. I understood that one can make any dream come true by pure hard work, extreme focus and overcoming challenges. Yes, you constantly feel like you are burning yourself in the furnace during this process, but when you come out of that furnace you get a different version of yourself. It is this version that gives you success and fulfils your dreams. One of the things I learned during my life journey is that phrases like ‘it’s impossible ‘ or ‘I can’t do this’ are just a myth or a way to escape from the realities. In fact, we all have immense potential to fulfil our dreams. Let us think ‘it is possible’. Of course, there is a very thin line between escape and reality but Hard Work they say is the stepping stone to success.