By Express News Service
KOCHI: The Rise Up programme conducted by Sajeev Nair at Bhaskaryeeyam Convention Centre on Sunday provided an igniting experience for the participants. According to the organisers, the one-day event, which was conducted in two sessions, aimed at helping people break free of all their limitations, belief and destructive thought processes.
The sole aim of the programme is to create a new you, said Sajeev Nair who is performance coach and business strategist. He held the audience spellbound and hooked with his energetic stage presence. According to him, Kerala is plagued by a lot of negativity and blamed the media for this.
“A lot of negativity is being forced down our throats by the media. If you open a newspaper or switch on the news channel, all you get to hear is murder, mayhem and molestation,” he said. Media needs to be constructive, not destructive, he added.
The talk, which was unlike any other, had participants dancing a jig to Will.i.am’s Hall of Fame. The songs that jelled with the topic of the talk had the audience listening and grooving through the entire event.
“The event aims at freeing the participants from tendencies like quitting, finding themselves worthless and self-doubt among other things. Practise helps a person to achieve success,” said Sajeev.
In order to get the audience to relate to the topics being discussed, Sajeev used day to day incidents as examples. At one point of time in order to explain why one should realise that we are not an expert in all and sundry, he portrayed a funny picture of an ‘expert’ in cricket advising Virat Kohli how to bat. He said, “Imagine Virat losing his cool and asking the ‘expert’ to come up and bat... The so-called expert will get the big picture in the very first ball that he faces. He will realise that ‘he doesn’t know, what he doesn’t know’.”
According to him, if a person decides to achieve something, nothing in the world can stop him or her from achieving it. “We are our own enemies,” he said. “We can’t blame others for our failures. We have to take risks. It is easy to avoid a problem. But a successful person takes the bull by its horn and forces it to its knees,” he added.
At the event, the participants were given a booklet and asked to fill in the requisite questionnaires. “These questions were a mirror that allowed the participants to get a look at what they are facing and where they are standing with respect to attaining success. What’s holding them back,” said Sajeev.
