Beginnings

When we went to Manipal/Renuka’s place in the US after finishing Emeraldship, one of the many gifts that Taru got was a scrapbook with beautiful quotes from Renuka. But that was not the best gift. The best gift was an advice that came along with the notebook. She said that the best thing we could do was to write down things that we are doing in our business - for years later they will be relevant and will help the future generations of leaders that we will create. 

And we did it - we noted the turning points of our business in this notebook - accompanied with beautiful pictures and quotes that it already had. 

And here is one of the first entries from it, dated 5th November, 2004:

“ Got Arpan/Nidhi, Manoj/Priya and Akash/Shilpa together and it wasmagical - we played some videos including our Emerald recognition video. With 20STP club Manoj opened 5 personal kits in the last month. They talked about how they did it and he said that he does the whole plan like a story of how he met me and got impressed and how successful I am and what a privilege it is to be able to associate with me - creates an aura around Ankur Gupta and that’s what goes and creates a magic result. Build the business around a person and not around a meeting. We’ll have 100 people from these 3 IBOships and break 3 silvers here for sure”

And how amazing, in just a few years from that night, all these 3 couples are going to start Emerald qualification in a few months. It’s just about keeping on keeping on and not giving up - having the patience and the faith that things will work out.