The video captures Day 10 of the daily "Story Spark" practice hosted by Haritosh Srivastav. The session’s theme is "Turning Point" – moments in life that dramatically reshape a person’s trajectory. Haritosh opens with a brief overview, then guides participants through a 1‑minute journaling exercise using prompts about pre‑turning‑point context, triggers, choices, and lasting impact. After journaling, three participants share their pivotal experiences: Dinesh mentions beginning to record life incidents for storytelling; Rajasi recounts a free 28‑day mentorship program during the November 2020 lockdown that shifted her mindset to self‑investment and lifelong learning; Venkat describes how joining a gym and transforming his body from obese to six‑pack built massive confidence. Haritosh interjects, highlighting the power of personal transformation as role‑model material and shares his own turning points (leaving his hometown, quitting a job, moving abroad). The group reflects on the meaning of the exercise, emphasizing self‑reflection, spontaneous storytelling, and the value of small actions leading to big change. The session concludes with a series of affirmations typed in chat and spoken aloud: “I honor my turning points,” “My change is my strength,” “My past holds power,” and “I turn pain into purpose.” The host thanks everyone, wishes them a good day, and previews Day 11.
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Okay, yes, so welcome everyone to day 10 of Story Spark session, where we come every day at 6 AM IST for 15-20 minutes to learn, practice, and grow as a confident storyteller. And today's session is going to be a rather interesting session because We are going to look back at our journey. We are going to again retrieve some of the gold and diamonds from our journey. So today's session is called Your Turning Point, or the Turning Point, which is basically, if we look at our life, we have so many moments where we took a decision and it completely changed the way we do things right now. Can you think about those? So that is what we are going to think, we are going to do about. So a turning point is a moment where things don't just change, it completely changes your life, your journey, your perspective. Okay, I think I'm sharing the wrong slide. If I'm sharing—
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Okay, great. So as every day, we are going to have journaling. I will be playing the music, I will be giving or speaking some prompts, and I I want you to write down couple of points that you remember from your journey. And once we finish the exercise, I'm going to ask you to share, if you choose to, one upon more of your stories. And then we are going to end with a affirmation exercise. So that's what it's going to be. Let me make sure that I am sharing the sound. Get your pen and paper ready and let's start the journaling exercise of Day 10, Your Turning Point. I want you to close your eyes for a moment. And start thinking about your life as a feature film, as a movie. And every movie has ups and downs, big changes, small changes. And I want you to think about some of the moments, or at least one moment, where everything changed. This could be a big dramatic change, or it could be a very subtle change. But the result of it has been huge in your life, in your career, in your personal life, and beyond. Going to give you a few more questions to reflect upon and think about in more in detail, like what was happening in your life before that pivotal moment happened? What triggered that change? What did you choose to do when this change happened? And how has that moment refined who you are today? If you have closed your eyes, you can now open and start writing. And if you are already writing, continue. Don't have to write the whole story, but start writing the pointers. What were some of those moments? I'll give you about a minute to do that. 30 more seconds. All right, we are done. So let's go to the story sharing part of it. Let's start with Dinesh. If you're ready, you want to share any of your pivotal moments? Yeah, the biggest change that has happened in me I started recollecting all the interesting incidences that have happened in my life. And when I see them, I think that they are the incidences that I need to remember, I need to tell it to the world, because they are so interesting, so motivating. Absolutely. Do you want to talk about any specific one? Yes, because I'm working on two topics. Yes, yes. So very soon I will be creating a story and I'll be sharing. Awesome, looking forward to you, looking forward to those stories, your stories, and Story Power to You. Thank you so much. Let's now go to Rajeshi.
Okay, yes, so, uh, definitely, uh, only change is constant in life, right? So there are so many turning points in life, everyone's life. So when you were just asking, I was getting so many things in my mind, but I just wanted to quote one incident here. It was lockdown on November 2020. And, uh, all of a sudden, like on YouTube, on Facebook, I got some ad, uh, The Magic of Thinking Big. That was, uh, one of the mentors. He was running free course for 28 days. That attracted me. Uh, reason behind it was it was free, obviously. So that was the one thing I was not in with kind of that kind of mindset that I have to invest on myself. That mentality was not there at all in my mind. Second was, it was month of Diwali and he was talking about money and all those things and change in life, positive impact in life. So that it quoted me that it is universe message, yes, or probably universe has something good for me. And I started attending that, those sessions. It was come for continuous 28 days and Those lessons, those learnings really created a great shift in my mentality, into my life. I completely shifted towards the mentality of investing on, uh, investing on myself, started loving myself. I started finding worth in my own life, and my— like, it was completely a 360-degree change in my own personality. And from there, my journey of learning lifelong got started. And thereafter, I started like investing on myself and improving myself. Now, when I look back, I feel, how was my life before that? Even I can't imagine now. So that was the biggest change. I'm so grateful to Uh, that mentor, I just wanted to quote his name, he's, uh, Gupinder Singh Rathore. BSR, yes. So he was my first mentor and I'm always grateful to him. And thereafter, like, so many mentors, and you are one of them. I just love to be part of your all sessions. So thank you, universe, and thank you all my mentors.
Thank you so much, Rajaji. That's a beautiful story of transformation and how that one moment when you decided to invest in your yourself, change the trajectory of your life. So amazing, thank you. Let's go to Venkat now.
What creates you to be fulfilled in your life? What creates your life be happy and full enthusiasm? After my college, I don't have a— I didn't have a confident. In normal day-to-day life, we do many things, we achieve office target goals, everything, but it won't create confident. Yes, what creates more confident and fulfilling of your life? If you change yourself, if you change your belief system to you, that creates more confident. I changed my belief system after joining gym because after joining gym I changed my body. Normally people, uh, doing exercise every day, 2 hours, 1 hour, that creates a small confidence. But if you change your body from obese to six-pack, that creates a big day-to-day. Every day we are learning something, that creates confidence. But if you do the massive action, that creates more confidence. You are buying property, won't create confidence. Managing 100 people, that won't create confidence. Managing yourself is the turning point, and that is the fulfillment of your life. So I did awesome. Thank you. Awesome.
Thank you, Venkat. And yes, you are transformation journey of going from obese to a six-pack abs. Not that six-pack is important, what is important is the transformation that you had. Amazing story, and that's, that's so great. So here is the point: all of us have many turning points in life, and if you're planning to put our message across, those may be one of the best stories to share across, because when people see transformation in you, they start believing in themselves. So you need to be a role model to share this story. Be honest. In my life, there has been many turning points. Going out of my small town of Jaipur to various places has been one. Quitting my job to do this as a full-time is another turning point. Going out of India in 2015 15. First time was another turning point. There has been many turning points, and that has shaped into what I am today. So thank you so much, everyone. I would love to know— we'll do a small exercise here— that what does this exercise, what does this reflection mean to you? We'll try to keep it in about 10-15 seconds. Would love to know your thoughts. Let's start with Dineshji. What does this exercise or reflection mean to you? For me, the reflection is what I think, then I put it in front of mirror or assuming myself. Yes. And then ask, and then I try to get the reply out of that. So that is how I work on reflection. Awesome, thank you. Rajasi, what does this activity mean to you, this reflection?
Okay, so this activity is really amazing. You know, when I— when we intercept ourselves and we go deep, we find that there are so many things which keep coming into our life. And but we can have a great, uh, so many lessons from all those incidents. These are small incidents, but today if I, I feel if I would have not taken that particular decision to join and continue that for 28 days, probably that, that shift in my personality, in my mentality would have never been there. So it is important. Incident might be small, right? But its impact can be great. That, as we always, uh, there is a great saying, small step leads to a great success. So always be ready to take action and adopt change in life. That's important.
Awesome. You are an amazing action taker. So thank you. Awesome. Venkat, what does this exercise or activity mean to you?
Yes, it's an impromptu storytelling, so it creates spontaneous storyteller. So that's— I'm doing, and it's a good practice. And we don't do anything new, we recall our past stories. It's a spontaneous—
yes, absolutely, it is a great spontaneous quality of a spontaneous storyteller is to be able to come up with story on the fly yet being effective. So awesome. And when we reflect in our journey, we might not need to have a lot of external motivational story because our journey in itself is so full of ups and downs and transformation and changes that even when we share those stories, it can really inspire the audience. So now we are going to the final part of this Story Spark session, which is affirmation. So due to a technical challenge, you won't be able to see that on the lower part of my screen. But what I'm going to do is I'm going to put that in chat one by one. So I will read once I put the affirmation in the chat, and then we'll do it together. So I put the first affirmation: I honor my turning points. Everybody unmute and let's do it together.
Awesome.
Second one is my change is my strength.
My change is my strength.
Awesome. Third one, my past My past holds power. And today I have a bonus one for him, for everyone who joined today, and that is: I turn pain into purpose.
I turn pain into purpose.
Awesome. So thank you so much everyone for joining this morning. This was day 10 of Story Spark Session. I wish you a great day and remember, your past holds power. You can turn your pain into purpose and inspire hundreds, thousands, and millions of people. Take care, stay safe, and stay blessed. And I'll see you tomorrow for the day 11 of Story Spark Session.
Thank you so much, Haritosh Srivastav. Thank you everyone. Have a wonderful day.
