How I Turned My Pain Into Power?

Before I started Zalonin

Rahul Abhishek
Aug 27, 2017 · 7 min read

Today

It was September and I was standing in my room, irritated and confused owing to my last haircut which wasn’t good and the time had come again to get another one. I was going to book a taxi and wondered how awesome it would have been if I could book my haircut service with a few clicks.

PAST

I wanted to build a business since I was a child. I remember when I was not even 10, a friend of my father came to home for a friendly visit. I adored his personality, his vibe was different and I admired it. I talked to him. He told me he was in oil business. To my head, only one thing came to my mind, parachute coconut oil because that was the only oil product I could recall at that time.

FEW YEARS LATER

Years rolled by and as I recall, my father always told me articles on about Bill Gates, Jobs, Kalam, Sachin or anyone who’s struggle or success story was published. I used to cut it out of the newspaper and keep it, the Steve Jobs articles and Bill Gates articles were my favorite. I had a collection from both, Hindi and English columns.

PAIN

College began and first year of college was difficult for me because I was carrying a heart filled with grief from my past owing to you-know-what. I dig down deep inside to find safe but I couldn’t. My head and heart were not coordinating. I started to stay alone more and more.

REDEMPTION

This changed my lifestyle. Subsequently, it changed me. I wasn’t regretting anything any more, I started to stay more and more grateful for the pain had made me a better person somehow. I wasn’t going through my problems now, I was growing through them.

Change your thoughts and you change your life

One step at a time. One step.

THE AVERAGE

Since childhood, I was the kid who went through tests for autism as I stayed quiet and only kept things to myself. Some people even called me dumb.

CHANGE

After school finished, I told myself, no more. No more do I have to be the average.

BACK TO SEPTEMBER

Coming to the September when I was wondering about haircut services.

THE REAL DEAL

I knew what I had to do. Standardize this industry from it’s core inside-out so customer could get the salon services with some standard like satisfactory service, zero-waiting time and all this at reasonable price. The mediocre salons which provide good services can get more customers unlike their history of being empty for most of the hours in a day.

CONCLUSION

No way I’m successful in the eyes of the society but in my eyes I get to do what I want and that’s beginning of success for me.

The secret of change is to focus all your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new

Want to know more? message me at rahul@zalonin.com or visit the site and the facebook page.


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