Build India, Australia-American motivational speaker Nick Vujicic advises Indian professionals

HYDERABAD: Australian-American motivational speaker Nick Vujicic who was born without hands and legs has said Indian professionals should dream big for the nation.
“Build up India. I believe that India is in a poised position of dimensional change in economy and technology. Do not think of that pipe dream of wanting to go to America. Think of staying here.Build up the future of the country for the many generations ahead,” he said in an interview with TOI recently when he was on a visit to Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
In Hyderabad, the 42-year-old Nick Vujicic addressed a gathering of students at a university and in Guntur in Andhra Pradesh, interacted with school students. Nick said he and his family would get involved in contributing to help in the spheres of education and health sector.
With the layoffs that are happening, particularly in the IT sector in companies across the world and Indian IT professionals affected, the 42-year-old motivational speaker has an advice: “Maybe you can become an entrepreneur. Many people discount themselves and think they can never do anything. But doing the best with what you have is the greatest attitude mindset.”
At age 26, Nick Vujicic became an entrepreneur and he himself faced a situation of having to let people go. “It never is an easy thing to let someone know that either that due to whatever circumstances, their season with the company is over. We had an expert come in to help us actually teach us that empathy and sympathy are needed to go through the process. We invested in executive coaching to keep the morale of the team and for unity as a team,” he said.
“If a company has made a decision to let someone go, it should be done in the most gracious and loving way and help that person prepare for the next season as well. We actually invested in coaching for that,” he said.
For students who are not able to achieve what they want to in academics and in their job and feel frustrated to the point of ending their lives, Nick Vujucic, father of four children has a piece of advice: “You are worth more than your dream. If you have to let go, let the dream die but you should not die. You are bigger than anything that you can ever achieve on this earth.”