YOU – THE GAME CHANGER – by Abha Maryada Banerjee

We all can be the Game changers, Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique …… incomparable…….. you are you…….I am I….

Abha Maryada … the Asian Oprah .. started by saying that anyone can be a game changer .There has to be a trigger which you get hold of and start the course of action .At that time we should not give up, hold on to it & be the change you want to be . Gandhiji had that tipping point which converted as a game changer. There is s context to everything. It follows on with circumstances, with which the opportunity arises. There comes a moment in everybody’s life where you feel all choked up with anger, the tipping point & you want to burst.

Moving northwards is the fact of life…just like a fetus, from a miniscule cell it grows to become a baby and further a full grown human. Except for gravity everything in our lives moves north. Never go down / southwards or waste time on lingering around in east and west directions.
What makes you a game changer is the capacity. Being a game changer is a game of persistence and choice. Healing is mandatory…so wait for a couple of days and all will come back to being positive and healed.

Every thought is same kind of process. Its small at start and eventually it grows. Pain and pleasure are the two things that help you to change. Failure is not the end of life. We have to stop being negative in life. You need to develop the process within you and to do that the most important is the context, the circumstances which don’t have to be good or bad, they give you an opportunity to make our choice.

She shared an experience when during a school break, she was scolded by her teacher for being too boisterous for a girl and had her prefect badge taken away. The badge was eventually returned to her, but the incident had already left a mark.
“From there, it has always been my mission to help people reach their best potential, regardless of gender,”she said.
She was highly influenced by swami vivekananda preaching’s. She said what is called positive stress of high expectations; judgment and criticism .
Whenever there were incidents in school she used to say it to her self; “I am gonna stand up and fight . When I am not offending anyone and hurting anyone; I can stand for what’s right. We have been conditioned to seek acceptance; feel less; all the to be told what to do… Seed ….. sprout ….. evolve.

The four important points according to her which must be revisited everyday

1. context … there is always a circumstance which gives you opportunities to choose from
2. Choice that you grab
3. Critical moment of decision
4. What makes you the game changer is your capacity

Hold on to your thought and play the game of time; persistence and taking action. We hate criticism that’s why we don’t do something that’s right for us. Take Rejection and wasted effort as learning process.
Looking for people’s acceptance we don’t try new things.

Citing examples of Gandhi and Rosa Parks, she said it is not that they became game changers the moment that incidents took place with them. It only led to the initiation of the thought, and after going in that direction with effort and persistence, did they become game Changers.