Most of us tend to lead a routine
life! Knowingly or unknowingly our days just pass like any other normal day! I
was one among many, who was totally involved in my daily routine life! This
continued for months together. Few of us work for a job that we were always
passionate about and few others just fit into wrong job and get used to it. We don’t
choose to do something different nor do we take some time out of our busy
schedule to do things that we want to do.
Recently, as I was lost in my own
world at office work and personal stuff, I received a call asking me to conduct
classroom training for a batch of people.Now this was something that I was never involved in before
and training was never my job. A new challenge on my way. Who cares, I just
wanted to say a “NO” and end it up. However for a change, I decided to say a “YES”.
I wanted to try my hands on something
new that I have not tried so far.Now I knew that saying a yes,means there was a
lot of extra work that was going to come my way and I wanted to give the
training as a proper trainer and not end it up for the heck of it. Dates were
fixed, huge participants were added as invites, classroom was dedicated for
whole week to me and my students.
Before the training started I had
to be thorough on my preparations ,first few days of my initial preparation
went for a toss because of my project workload and I was a little lazy,I
usually don’t do things until its sitting right on top of my head with deadline
:P I had just one week left to start my training.And I had to start plus finish my
preparations as a trainer.I had to be 1000 times more confident on my subject
than the participants who would be present there.I dedicated my entire time on
my preparations pushing everything else aside including the holidays plus
weekends. I felt confident on what I had to speak during my training.
The first day of training, my
intention was to make everybody present there very comfortable,so that they
feel free to shoot all their doubts at me.From second day till last day went with
complete training material subjects in detail.Making everyone interact was part
of this ! On my last day of training,I saw myself as a trainer, having the
best feeling ever.The entire effort of day and night that I had put in this
training felt worth it. To make this memorable I just gave a sheet of paper and
asked every participant to scribble positives and negatives of me a
trainer.Positives would build up my confidence and negatives would let me know
where I should improve on.And these sheets went directly into my diary.I revealed on the last
day that this was my first experience as a trainer which surprised all
participants.
The last day of my training, when
everyone had vacated the room, I was standing there feeling happy and good. We
tend to loose ourself very often in this fast phase of our life doing things
what we regularly do.Try to explore yourself whenever you get an opportunity to
do something different.Dont fear to take a chance.Because every chance taken
gives you a learning.Thats when you will know the better you.
