It is always our endeavour to share with our community some of the compelling stories. This week we invited Rajeev Chawla for an interview with us to understand more about his journey as a coach so far. Rajeev is a successful FiftyXCoach, Mentor and Passionpreneur. Let’s read more!
Excerpts from our interview with Rajeev:
Tell us a little bit about yourself and your journey, please;
I am an Engineering Professional with over 36 years of experience in various capacities. after all these years of working in multinational corporate organizations, I have now crossed the official age of retiring i.e 58 years only two months before.
I am working as vice president business development in an MNC as my regular Job which is in my first trained field academically, Along-with job I am now pursuing my passion, which gives me the real purpose of my life.
I have been quite inactive in my professional life after my Open heart surgery and started my present job in this year only.
The FIFTYXCOACH Journey started just after I joined job, as everyone whom I knew said, why I am joining the job at the age of Retirement, and gave me many reasons for just relaxing and enjoying life by not working. This triggered the thought of starting a platform called Fiftyxcoach.
Why did you choose entrepreneurship over a job?
It is not the question of choosing entrepreneurship over a job. I am doing the job as well am a Passionpreneur. And I have planned to take these both to the height where people will say that see this is the man who can pull two different streams together to the Top.
Though I have fixed my Goal for my company to take it to 300% growth in next 3 years. Before pursuing my Passion fiftyxcoach, fully till I am living on this planet. and I am proud to say that I will never retire from living my life and that is also my mission in Fiftyxcoach.
How do you find the industry/niche that you’re in?
The main purpose/niche I want to take up in my Passionpreneur journey is inspired by a sad incident of my early life where I lost my retired father as he turned 63 years because he had quit working and there was no routine he was following. This is my emotional angle to take up this cause.
It was in the back of my mind and I always wanted to work throughout my life and never retire and when my friends asked me to retire at 58, I took a challenge and started Fiftyxcoach
Fiftyplus is the most experienced phase of life, and I want to give all Fiftyplus people their reason to be More –
* Healthy & fit
* Happy
* Independent
* Dancing as they like
* Emotionally stable.
* Financially free
* Roaring to play their third inning of life on the front foot.
* Not think to retire
* Do what they want to do
The second mission I am working on is because of a dear friend who has developed medicine for a deadly and painful disease called Sickle cell syndrome, which is predominantly present in tribal population across the world.
I am helping him in the awareness program for SCD and its management and marketing
What gets you out of bed in the morning i.e. what’s your source of motivation?
Good Question. I would say it’s my passion to keep myself fit and healthy as I want to lead from the front. I get up at 5 am and go for my morning rituals which comprise of first Gratitude to God for a new beautiful day and all I have in my life.
Then I write goals diary and create a motivational post on my social media before I go out for a walk and exercise for an hour and it serves the source of my motivation all the time.
By GOD grace, I am currently at the start of writing a book on my passion.
What challenges/obstacles did you face in your journey so far?
Every journey has challenges and obstacles.
I am very passionate about my work and trying to cover all the possible challenges and take precautions to balance my profession and passion. I already have a core niche team but I see from future expansion perspective, I would need a more innovative team to compliment in my work and make all fiftyplus population in the world to be living a Fit Happy and financially free life.
What comes first for you – money or emotions?
I am an emotional person. Business needs to have emotions, not personal, obviously, but in my case, it’s teaching all mature and experienced persons to break their set beliefs about fitness and retirement.
Money is the priority but I believe if your value creation process is right for others, the money will automatically come as an outcome of it. and the value I have planned to deliver to all will be much higher than the commercial aspects
How do you handle the pressure and manage stress?
I have been successfully doing my morning rituals of around two hours which I call my power morning hours after my open heart surgery its a kind of routine which keeps Mr Fit, Happy and Motivated.
And due to the continuous trust in my God, I have been able to carry out my all works in a proper manner.
What is one strategy that you believe has helped you grow as a person?
In my journey so far what has helped me immensely is my Positive Mindset and ‘Never say Die’ approach
In your opinion what are the keys to success?
There are many formulas of success and first and foremost is to keep going till you achieve it (persistence) and (Consistency) and you can learn it on your way up.
As long as you have a growth mindset it is not a problem.
What advice would you give to someone starting out?
I always work on a tag line ‘add value to get value’. Give More and you will get ten times more. Don’t focus primarily on money or investments but keep your focus on creating a value of what you deliver & I believe, rest things will automatically set with time. Also, if you are starting up a venture, feel free to reach out to the Experts and have a Mentor one more thing I want to add here is that the Fiftyxcoach is a new platform for all the mature minds yet with Childish heart to explore the new horizons.
I hope this will be my story which can inspire few million minds like me who want to live their life fully before the supreme one calls us back from this beautiful planet Earth and in SCD Management medicine I want to make the pain and suffering of all affected less and less.
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