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Stop Wishing. Start Doing!

What are you waiting for? GO!

Very obviously you already have learnt of the largely used term YOLO! Keeping aside all the myths and spiritual ruckus about reincarnation and 7 lives, its true, you do only live once. Well at least in this life you have resources to take you to a ‘land unknown’.

My advice to you? Pack a bag, set a destination and sail from the safe harbour. Dream. Explore. Discover.

The world believes that everybody should get away, not just for a week or two but actually experience a country. The food, the culture, the lights. Don’t say that it’s impossible to take more days off, there is always a way.

Oh and yes it is scary! Travelling to Africa, China, Turkey all by yourself! But it is the good kind of scary that puts your outside your comfort zone and lets you breathe that fresh you otherwise would have never. Leaving your friends, your family, your everyday routine, ofcourse it is scary, but isn’t the excitement in the fear more?

It may not always be easy, and sometimes there may be small bumps, but it’s an experience, and one worth having.

How do we do it? Did that question just entirely ruin a beautiful picture that your mind was beginning to show you?

Stop wishing, take the first step. Find an opportunity and plunge!

Be Fearless

Fear paralyzes us, it prevent us from reaching our ultimate potential and goal. It stops us from becoming as successful as we are meant to be.

As Marianne Williamson very eloquently puts it – “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

If you have a dream, go out there and get it. Don’t any fear and anyone hold you down. Your potential is limitless.

Is your goal to travel to various countries and make a difference and have a leadership experience? AIESEC gives you the opportunity to do so, register here.

Going Global to Kenya

“As part of my internship, I visited schools in and around Kibera to talk to the adolescents about the problems they face, made proposals to fundraise for the sanitary napkins project and marketing for the Women Empowerment project.The schools we visited were mainly in the slums so the children from the schools got an opportunity to interact with us and discuss the problems they face in schools.

I also got to experience so much of the Kenyan culture, their food, their night life and how they generally live through the AIESECers from Nairobi who were again an amazing bunch of people. I travelled and saw almost all of Kenya and each place was better than the next. I had no idea that the country was that beautiful.

My internship experience helped me grow so much as a person. It led me to introspect and my future plans have taken a whole new turn. I also met some AMAZING people who really inspire me and changed the way I used to think. I can say that my time in Kenya was a mind blowing experience. I had so many misconceptions and I realized how wrong I was about the country. I lived with 10 different nationalities in an intern house and the amount I’ve learnt from all of them is just incredible. All the interns worked for different NGO’s and through them I met more amazing people who redefined how I think.”

– As said by Lomarshini Anand – a student of Manipal University, an exchange participant who went global via an AIESEC internship to Kenya.

Read about Lomarshini’s internship experience via her impact report here.

If you too want to have such an experience, sign up now!

BRIC Conference 2013

This conference, the first ever of its kind will witness young students and entrepreneurs from four resurgent nations of Brazil, Russia, India and China, popularly denoted as BRIC countries finding these answers. The objectives of the conference is to create a conducive environment and build a common consensus of what the youth of these nations stand for. Together the participant members of AIESEC international will try to find common solutions on how AIESEC can establish itself with greater relevance and understand better what does young people want, more than ever. The international symposium will also seek more avenues for mutual understanding and growth.

The conference hosted by AIESEC India will try to establish a niche for itself in the international network by promoting mutual growth and understanding as the base agenda. Being the leading country in the network, India will harmonise the diversity while giving an international direction to the participating nations.

The conference is in full swing, you can join the discussion virtually.
Find the live stream: http://new.livestream.com/accounts/966462/BRIC
Follow the discussion on twitter @AIESECIndia with the hashtag #briciton

Going Global to South Africa

Hear Satwik Rajani’s global experience to South Africa.

“I went to South Africa for an AIESEC internship.

I worked for a project called S.M.I.L.E run by a South African not for profit organization that focuses on the empowerment of youth, education, illiteracy training and career guidance. I was teaching students Maths, English and Physics and was also the head of the photography workshop in the summer school.

This internship has been a definite eye opener more than anything. It challenged the way I perceive the world and opened my eyes to various things around us that I take for granted. I interacted with young ambitious people from over 15 countries. It really gave me a sense of being part of something bigger and made me realize the power I have to change the world.

Leaving in a different country, speaking a different language and living a different lifestyle never sounded simple till I experienced it which got me thinking of the various other things in life that I thought would have been impossible but might have just been in my reach.

I would definitely recommend this experience over any vacation or summer school, simply because of the depth of human interaction and the self learning. I would like to thank AIESEC for exposing me to a different meaning of life.”

If you too want to have such an experience, sign up now!