Rajesh Ahuja lost her home in Delhi on May 26, 2010, when her family faced financial ruin. Her father's "Power of Three" principle guided her through: keep learning, stay grateful, give back. She rebuilt her life and now helps others find confidence using those same three pillars.
What I believe sometimes, like, life is like a movie where initially everything goes high, so good, and suddenly everything crashed. How many of you agree with me? How many of you agree on this? Yes, okay, yes, agreed, absolutely right. Now can you imagine, like, how life can be changed suddenly, completely, 360-degree turn in your life? Yes, friends, I do remember. It was 11th May 2010. We were settled in Delhi. I had 2 kids, husband, and my in-laws. Everything was well set and we were enjoying life. In fact, I got, you know, I got selected in one of my dream companies and I started feeling that yes, everything going crazy, incredible. We were enjoying life and I started working. Now life has a climax for us. I cannot forget that terrible day, 26th May 2010. I got call from my husband. I just looked at watch, 11 AM. I was surprised, my husband never calls at 11 AM. And seeing his call, I got disturbed, and immediately after picking up phone, I asked, "Rohit, what happened? Hope everything is okay." Other side, there was a deep silence. After taking long breath, he said, "It's over." Over what? I said, what do you mean it's over? What happened? I didn't get you. And he was, you know, he was feeling restless while speaking. Slowly he said, we are on road. I sensed something worse has happened. I immediately packed up everything and rushed back to home. We lost our house within a moment as because of some bad financial decisions taken by some of our family members. That was the longest day and the longest night in our life. There was the complete darkness in front of us. In fact, You know, my kids were too young to realize and understand that what joke life has played with them. We were completely lost. We don't know what to do, where to go, to whom to seek for help. There was like, we were completely speechless, thoughtless. No idea what to do, how to start life from zero again, how, what, what, what, like we were completely lost. Nothing was coming in front of us, what to do, where to go, and after few hours, thank God, one of our relatives extended helping hand to us. In fact, We had to segregate it in 3 different parts, 3 different groups, so that we could spend few nights on 3 different places. And before that, we always used to stay together. That was— I was feeling like everything is going like a movie in front of me. We were completely broke. And what should I say, that at that night I had two choices. One, leave everything, and might be I would have taken some steps that might I later, I might have regret on that. Or else I had choice to whatever is left to take step forward and move ahead. That was that night I was completely restless. I was not finding any way. I was just struggling with myself and all of a sudden I remembered my father's teaching. My father is my first professional guru, and I really feel so blessed to be his daughter. Thank you so much, my Papa. And he had only son who was mentally challenged and 3 daughters. The best thing about him was he never differentiated among us. In fact, he always said, if you want to go ahead in life, always remember the Power of Three. Understand that power, Power of Three. Number 1: Always keep learning. Always keep learning in life as it will help you to, to get your best version. It will help you to reach your true potential. Number 2: Be grateful. Whatever life you have got from life, whatever it is, irrespective of how much and what exactly it is, people, time, effort, or money, anything, whatever you have got, be grateful about that. And the number 3 is always think about giving back to society. Try to create a difference in people's life. And believe me, friends, I decided to move ahead. I decided to take charge of my life as my father's teaching was there with me and they will always be there with me. And today I want to tell all those 3 teachings to all of you. If you feel that you are struggling with something, you are struggling with your inner soul, you are struggling with outer world, If you feel that you are not progressing in life, you are stuck somewhere, remember the power of 3— Brahma, Vishnu, and Mahesh. Always keep learning, be grateful, and contribute to the society, contribute to your community. And believe me, magic will start happening. You will start, you will bounce back from wherever, from whatever you are struggling. And I hope you are going to take this forward in your life. You will implement all these learnings as I am implementing, and I have my mission that yes, I'm going to create a difference in Millions of people in my life, I will help them to be confident in life so that they can find out their true potential. Thank you everyone. Thank you. Thank you, Haritosh Srivastav.
