Dreaming to become a successful personality and striving towards achieving that end is essential to shine and succeed in our chosen field in life. Having realistic dreams with a vow to achieve that through plan, action, determination, dedication and discipline is what every parent expect from their children. But their expectations get shattered when it’s otherwise due to various factors and negativity prevalent in the society and the system itself. Therefore, it is seen that many promising youngsters fail to achieve success as an adult; while on the other hand mediocre or below average children, through devotion and dedication and proper planning, go on to become successful leaders in society.

This is precisely the reason why counselling by ‘success coaches’ has become so essential in today’s world full of dilemma for the youngsters. The other day one such success coach, Khandakar Wasim, a certified master practitioner of success technology Neuro-Linguistic Programming, USA and trained by renowned Dale Carnegie Training conducted a workshop billed Don’t Tell Me I Can’t at SOS Village, Azara, Guwahati to encourage and motivate every child there to have a dream and how to achieve that.

Wasim, whose favourite line now is Don’t tell me I can’t because I can dream, plan, act and achieve, was invited by SOS Village director Subash Koul to conduct the two-hour training workshop to make sure every child realizes the importance of having goals in life which would propel them in to their future successfully.

Wasim told the children “the only way to secure our future is to have goals we are passionate about without which we would perish by just being a part of the crowd.”

In the two-hour informative, thought-provoking and engaging session, children were encouraged to discuss their goals and were guided by Wasim as to how to plan and act to achieve that goal they are passionate about. Because, only through a passion-filled dream coupled with astute planning and persistent action we can achieve real success in life, he said, adding, dream, plan, act and achieve are the four magic words for success.

It’s depressing that our children, the future of the world, suffer mentally and emotionally for we hardly listen to their dreams. We suppress their dreams by forcing them to do or follow whatever we think is right for them. It’s time we change our attitude and keenly listen to them and encourage them to pursue their passion with heart and soul, Wasim told the gathering, adding that every human being is unique, and so are their dreams and aspirations.

Director Koul also spoke briefly, saying that ‘programmes like this should be encouraged in society to make every child realize their uniqueness; and as concerned elders our moral and social duty is to come forward like Wasim to encourage and motivate our children, our future, to dream big and strive with courage, sincerity, discipline and devotion and make the world a better place to live in.

Wasim said it was a special feeling to talk to the SOS children on human potential development for obvious reasons. Besides Kaul, Wasim also thanked assistant village director Subodh Das, senior co-worker Rafique Islam, co-worker Pratim Bayan and all the mothers for their cooperation. His e-mail khandakarwasim@rocketmail.com is open for queries and inputs, if any.

Simanta Bhagawati