How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success?

A failure should never put us down. Failure is all about signs that take us to progress.

Give you an example of how failure turned a man into a huge success.

My friend, Sakthivel lived in Trichy, a fort city in Tamilnadu, South of India.

He did his graduation in automobile engineering and quickly found a job with an auto giant.

He was good at work, hit big in the company and brought fame. But that didn’t last long though.

He quit the job within two years as he was too stressed.

He had to travel most of the time and he missed his family. His wife, two daughters (twins) and a young son missed him a lot.

He decided to launch a start-up and pledged all the assets he owned to banks for funds.

He started a showroom that sold Italian-made scooters. 

He soon ran into trouble. Sales didn’t go as expected. He failed in the venture.

He lost his money and went completely bankrupt. His family was broke.

He sat introspecting one day when a customer called and said he wanted to buy a scooter. All Sakthivel had in his possession was one last scooter.

As he was waiting for the customer Anil, his nephew Prakash popped in for the routine coaching classes. Sakthivel was helping the boy with his class 12 exams.

The doorbell rang as Anil entered. He apologized for turning up so late. He saw Sakthivel sitting in the cabin with a boy and there was a class going on. 

Sakthivel said he was helping his nephew with free coaching in physics and mathematics.

Anil asked if he would mind coaching his daughter Purnima too, as she was struggling with the subjects and the exams were fast approaching. He said he would pay for his service.

Sakthivel wasn’t too keen. But he said jokingly that he would coach his daughter for free if he bought the scooter as promised.

Anil was so happy and issued a check at once. Finally, a sale was made.

He kept his promise and helped both his nephew and the girl with some serious coaching in physics and mathematics. He himself was a top ranking student in the said subjects at school and college. 

The duo appeared for the examination and the results came. Both scored good marks.

Anil’s family was joyous as their daughter scored full marks. A 100/100 each in Physics and Mathematics. All thanks to strict coaching by Sakthivel.

As a gratitude, Anil took him to the school where his daughter Purnima studied. The head of the school was so thankful to Sakthivel and asked if he could offer his services as a special coach to teach Physics & Mathematics to the rest of the students in the school.

He said YES.

He soon became so popular with the students, and they called him a ‘Century Coach’. Because he helped many students to score 100 in physics and mathematics.

Many schools approached Sakthivel for special assistance in coaching students.

He has hit fame now. 

He now owns two colleges in the city, and has just taken up another huge place in Chennai for the purpose of coaching students to write NEET, an entrance exam for students who wish to join popular medical colleges in India.

Sakthivel is now heading the ‘Sakthi Residential NEET Academy’ headquartered at Trichy.

He runs his own YouTube channel and is a popular coach among students all over India.

The number of students in his academy is now growing each year. The strength stands now at around 1000.

Failures in his life didn’t tire him. Failure made sure he was progressing to a successful entrepreneur.