ATIT PURANI

In my early days of teens, my body was so thin that I did not like to go in public because of the fear that people will ask me, “For how many years have you been fasting?” I never liked giving answer to that question because I used to eat healthy food in good quantity but perhaps my body didn’t know how to make muscles out of it. It was my body, not me ?

In other areas of life, I was okay at academics. Average at sports. I was not doing badly but I was not super-successful either.

Did my thin body and being average have anything in common? Well, maybe

For the first 25 years of my life, I used to believe that I had to live with the thin body which I was “given”, even though my fascination was a masculine body. Then I came across a thought from Albert Einstein: “Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” Was it just imagination? Could I do it if I imagine it?

I imagined getting better at databases & within about eight months of conviction, intentional focus, rigorous practice and perseverance, I started being recognized as one of the best SQL Server experts in the company I was employed with and at one point of time, I was topper in online SQL Server examinations in my state.

Thinness of my body didn’t matter now. My colleagues knew that if they had any database problem, I’d solve it. They could depend on me.

For me, this was the first taste of success that I created myself and time started to change.

I continued to pump some iron and stay pumped up. Eventually I realized that I am also capable of building anything I can imagine. I imagined building a business and I built . I imagined building biceps and I build myself.

Both Biceps and Business demand conviction, intentional focus, rigorous practice and perseverance. I am fortunate enough to take pride in practicing these characteristics daily in every task I undertake. Small or big. Easy or hard. Important or urgent.