We are 3 days away to celebrate the 20th foundation day of brand Hearty Mart, as on 11th February this year we will complete 19 years of Hearty Mart’s launch.
The journey so far is satisfying as it gave me an opportunity to explore newer things and to realise my own strengths, which wasn’t possible had the journey been smoother.
Entrepreneurial journey is full of positives and negatives. Positive experience inculcates confidence in your abilities while negative experiences or failures provide you enough fodder to think, reflect and perhaps change your approach. My advertising days provided me with opportunity to interact and learn from the best of strategic minds. That helped me while I was pondering upon creating a business model around brand Hearty Mart.
My teaching days, when things at Hearty Mart weren’t so good, gave me opportunity to interact with young students and helped me nurture my mentoring skills. This, I took it to my business and turned mentor to my employees.
A detailed timeline on the journey of Hearty Mart and the growth it achieved is shared here. We became instrumental in changing the retail mindset in villages we explored. We generated employment and entrepreneurial opportunities here. Our micro enterprises created micro entrepreneurs who are part of our growth story.
At the end I would like to share this beautiful couplet of Sahir Ludhianvi :
माना कि इस ज़मीं को न गुलज़ार कर सके
कुछ ख़ार कम तो कर गए गुज़रे जिधर से हम!
(Yes, we couldn’t make this land a bed of roses
But we sure picked some thorns where we passed by)
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