In a world where everyone is looking at the convenience of home delivery, even bringing milk in an emergency from a store under the building, Shivanand Shetty climbs 23 floors a day for daily chores. Sivananda waiter and lives in a high-rise building in Byculla, central Mumbai, the restaurant owner has given quarters to the staff here.
Whenever he is asked to get grocery-vegetables for the restaurant from South Mumbai, which is 10 km from home, he never takes a taxi, goes by cycle whenever the restaurant owner takes someone to their canteen in Panvel, 50 km away. If he wanted to send, he would have prayed that he should get this responsibility so that he could cycle 100 km on both sides. Since his salary is about 15 thousand rupees. In such a situation, he cannot take care of his nutrition, so he eats chickpeas and drinks 10 liters of water. If you are thinking that this will be a person of 20 years, then let me tell you that he is 46 years old and this person who is passionate about running started participating in marathons much later in life.
did. He proudly says that 'this is a drug, get up in the morning and run.' It all started in 2006, when he was working in a hotel in Udupi, then Standard Chartered Bank in Mumbai was doing Maradhan. He went and got Rs 300 to participate in it. Submitted. He came a little late on the day of the marathon and found a bag containing a bib with a time chip. He took the bag and started running. On the way, he saw Anil Ambani with a small group. He came running to see her face, then Anil walked away from him and Shivanand could complete only 21 km in the 42 km category. The next morning when I woke up, there was a picture of Anil Ambani in almost all the newspapers and he was by his side. He got encouragement from this fame, then the journey of running started and continues till now.
The running enthusiast has today completed 450 marathons, finished in the top three in 150 and participated in international events in Sri Lanka, New Zealand, Brunei, Australia and Indonesia. Starting from the Tata Mumbai Marathon, the Tata Steel Kolkata Marathon or the Delhi Marathon to the Bangalore Marathon, you will find Sivananda running because that's what drives him!
Take the example of another man. Bhaskar Halmi of Gadchiroli, near Nagpur, was forced to sleep on an empty stomach since the age of 4, cycling with his family for more than 100 km to avoid starvation. From an early age, he noticed that the family did not have any wage work and that nothing grew in his field for three months of the year. During that time, Mahua would be collected in the forest for a living. His father believed that 'education is the only way out of this poverty'. Soon it became an 'addiction' for the whole family. This sequence continued till 12th, went to school in the morning and then worked on the farm, after that he did B.Sc and did his post graduation from Institute of Science Nagpur. In 2003, he became an assistant professor and went to America. Now from last 10 years he works for a big pharma company and gets salary in 6 digit dollar.
The fund is that yours is entirely dependent on what makes you 'passionate' in everyday life. If you are extremely passionate about whatever work you are doing, then surely you are on the highway of progress.
