YOUTH

From bed to ground

Rahul Prasad

Cover page designing- Nihaal Ramesh

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Portfolio of the Author

Rahul Prasad is a 24 years old student of R.V.College of

Engineering,Mysore Road,Bengaluru.His native is New
Delhi.He founded Juvenile Care in June 2010.He started
Juvenile Care as a platform for himself and other college
students to come forwards and work for child rights and
child abuse eradication.From past 5 years,he has not only
given a platform to over 15,000 volunteers across country
to come forwards and work for child welfare but has also
evolved himself to be a motivational speaker and an
inspirational leader.Presently Juvenile care operates in
Bangalore,VIT University,Vellore,Jaipur,New Delhi and
Pune.In coming 3 months the chapters will get fully
established in Hubli,Kolkata and Gujarat. Juvenile Care
undertakes social activities such as Educational workshops

in slums and villages,medical and sanitation awareness

workshops in slums,Awareness drives in urban areas and
delivering free education to rescued child laborers.Recently
Rahul Prasad was Nominated as a Finalist in the 'Citizen
Youth Category' for Namma Bengaluru Awards for the
year 2013 and 2014 across over 80,000 nominations
across Karnataka.Also he has been given The Karmaveer
Chakra (instituted by iCONGO in association with The
United Nations) and REX Karmaveer Global Fellowship
2014-15 .

I have no right to motivate you,

I am just here to ignite a fire!!!

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Lets promise to make this book a part of our little secrets in
life. This is not a religious book or a novel, its just a
translation of your individual thoughts into words.
Initially before writing this page, I thought to myself Why
not give this page a title as-Who to read!
But later I realized that motivation is something that can not
be characterized or generalized. Its for all to learn, age no
bar, because learning never ends.
I am not here to talk Hi-Fi and take your conscience on a
different level. Its just that I am here to make friends with
whom I can share my experiences and my thoughts.
Being from a middle class family, I always believed that my
dreams are limited or its a crime to follow my passion. These
qualities of mine molded me in such a way that I started
having some personality characteristics that 65% of you
might be having
Lack of confidence
Complex about what would people think of me or
how theyd judge me
Low self esteem
Fear of meeting new people

 Fear of publically speaking about self or anything

else. (My right leg used to heat up and shiver)
Many of us still have this feeling, many of us still have this
threat.
Why does it happen?
Why have we made it a part of our lives?
Why have we adjusted our self to it?
If not, what are we doing to get rid of it????
Its easy to cry, its easy to complain but is difficult to work on
it OR do we make it too difficult to work on?
The above points are not only taking us down, but they have
also made our sky so limited that we have become scared to
think beyond what people are thinking about us. Always
remember that whenever you see a seed of apple, looking at
it you can never judge that it will someday become a tree and
will grow a red colored fruit. For once, all we need is,to not
think about what people think about us. For once dont worry
about our past, dont worry about future. We just need to
make our present perfect.
Always remember

Motivation give MOTIVe to your

creATION

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You get up in the morning, the first thing will be checking
your phone for unanswered calls or messages. Then you
move towards the washroom and stare yourself at the
mirror. After completing all the chores and eating breakfast,
you move to your college/work place. 6-8 hours of
study/work makes you tired as hell and then you come back
home, open your laptop, watch series or movies,eat dinner
and eventually sleep.
You get up in the morning.The first thing will be checking
your phone for unanswered calls or messages. Then you
move towards the washroom and stare yourself at the
mirror. After completing all the chores and eating breakfast,
you move to your college/work place or later you realize that
Whats the use of going to work today? Lets spend some
time at home watching TV and call friends, have a party ora
small get together or why not go to a mall?
You get up in the morning. The first thing will be checking
your phone for unanswered calls or messages. Then you
move towards the washroom and stare yourself at the
mirror. After completing all the chores and eating breakfast,

you move to your college/work place. You dont realize how

6-8 hours passed and you want there to be more. You come
back home, keep thinking about work/study, have dinner,do
some pending homework and then sleep.
You get up in the morning. The first thing will be checking
your phone for unanswered calls or messages. Then you
move towards the washroom and stare yourself at the
mirror. After completing all the chores and eating breakfast,
you move to your college/work place but a strange thing has
happened. Since morning to 6-8 hours of work/study, you are
not satisfied. Something is going on in your head, something
which is forcing you to think more. Some idea of yours, some
driving force, something you want to do but you cant!!!
Why cant you??
Your family or friends dont want you to excel in whatever
you do. Instead they want you to start judging things
excellently. In the above 4 cases, the one who is going to be
more successful in life is the 4thcategory.Hardwork is good
but the moment you start working too hard, always get an
idea that you are about to fail. Work doesnt require hard
work when you start enjoying it. For example, you love
playing cricket. Now cricket requires hard work but you can
play it any time in a day, for any number of hours because
playing cricket is your Passion.
All you have to do is, for once, switch off your phone, close
yourself in a room, sit down with a pen and paper and find

outWhat is your passion?

What is it that drives you crazy?
What is it that you can do any time in a day for any number
of hours?
What is it that brings a smile on your face?
Nobody asks you to work, work and work. But people ask you
to enjoy your work because once you start enjoying your
work, you are no longer working, you are playing. As an
individual, your motive is not to think about what will happen
after 10 years.
Instead your main aim is to start working on the dream you
just saw last night. Thats your mantra! Thats your secret of
success!

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Now once you have your passion, once you have a calling,
how should you proceed towards working for it?
First and foremost, never ever get excited and discuss it with
family or friends. Family may want you to be an Engineer or a
Doctor, hearing your passion for dance, art or acting, they
might scold you and try to demoralize you for the same and it
will directly affect your confidence. Discussing with friends
depends on the set of friends you carry. Always remember
that if you think that you have 12-15 best friends then you
are faking it because best friends are only 2-3.
Now you start to do your homework, here Google plays a
role of your best friend. You need to start searching Google
on how to achieve what you dreamt of last night. Its not that
you cant achieve it or its out of your league or something.
You just need to have that courage to attempt; you just need
to have the fire inside you. While surfing Google, you might
get tired and think that you are wasting your time for that
particular phase of yours, I would love to tell you that its the
first time you are investing and your time is not being
wasted. Earlier you used to waste your time on the bed,
watching movies and playing games but today you are using
that fire of yours to achieve something, to become

something, to learn something new.

While following your passion, there will be times when you
would feel that things are not working out and maybe its not
happening with Gods consent but my dear friend, you need
to take it is as a hurdle set by the God to see how dedicated
you are towards your goal and passion. Lets cross this hurdle
and prove it to God that you are the best person to do it in
the best way!!!
Friends, I am here to make you people feel HIGH so that you
can win the GAME.
Confused??
HIGHHurdles In Growing Higher
GAMEGetting Aged and Matured with Entity
I am here to make you feel those hurdles in growing higher
because until you face the hurdles, you wont be able to grow
higher. Life is like a graph of Sine or Cosine. Its always up and
down. Until you fail, how will you succeed? Today you might
be feeling that you life is full of shit, everything is complex,
you dont know what to do, everyone near you has left you
and you are completely alone, you have constantly failed and
you see no hope of succeeding!!!
Always remember that you are just on the down phase of the
sine graph. And as we all know that what is down today will
always go up tomorrow! You just need to trust yourself and

trust the people who expectations from you and count on

you.
This way you will not only be able to redefine you present,
but will also be able to form a better future for yourself. So
that you can aged and matured with a unique entity.
If you start loving what you do or if you start doing what you
love, you would be making a better future for yourself and
will get to know the correct definition of Success!!

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While talking about our personality, one more thing is there
which matters a lot to our actions in practical life. That is,
how do we manage our emotions??
You may think that your emotions are such that you can
suppress them and fake a smile in public and friends. But you
will never realize that your emotional status gets directly
reflected on your personality and confidence. The first and
foremost mistake that we do is that we tend to get attached
to everyone. At our age, its a very common problem.
Friends, always remember that out of 100% people you meet
in your life,98% people will be there next to you only for
entertainment or a reason but 2% of the people will be the
ones who will be there next to you all the time. You fall or
rise, the 2% will always be there. One of your aims in life is to
find that 2%.And only those 2% deserve to get attached to
you. On your body, everything that you wear and carry does
not belong to you, it belongs to your parents. All except two
thingsYour Smile & your Tears
You should not smile in front of everyone, it marks a negative
impression about your personality and you shouldnt cry in
front of everyone. Smile for those who deserve to see you

smile, crying front of those who deserve to see your tears.

Respect your anger, dont let it burst out all the time. Only
2% of people in your life deserve to see your smile and tears.
Find that 2%.
Several times in a day you would feel that your brain is
clustered and you cannot think properly. There are a lot of
things going on in your mind. Some are emotional and some
are waste, you dont know what to do, you will just end up
calling your self-confused.
All you need to do is introspect, close yourself in a room and
talk to yourself. Take a pen and a paper and note down the
things in your head. You will get embarrassed reading such
senseless things on the paper.
Back in 2011,I suffered from a similar phase. I stopped being
happy and I used to find out reasons to be unhappy. I used to
listen to flute music tunes on my phone and used to go and
sit on a random bus stop. As the bus used to approach, I
could see a lot of faces. Some were happy and most of them
were depressed. Every face had a story. Watching the happy
faces, I realized that if they can be happy and smile, why
cant I? Irrespective of each and every resource given to me.
Since then I decided that I will never complain about life and
will feel happy from within.
Always remember, being sad requires hard work but there is
no hard work needed to smile.
Dont look for platforms to be happy, always look for

opportunities to be happy!!
It does not matter that what you do in life. As long as you are
happy while going back to sleep at night, everything is fine.

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In todays world PR (Public Relations) is a very strong
element. The better you are at it, the more number of
demands you make for yourself in public, market and
companies. It not only comprises of your personality
development but also consists of the way you talk and
represent yourself. You never realize that from shaking hands
to handing over your visiting card, everything requires proper
training. The PR skills are often used for corporate meetings
such as corporate partnerships meeting for college fests and
events, interview round of your campus selection,
presentation in colleges and companies etc.
Corporate partnerships meetings follow a simple formula,
either you convince the client or you confuse the client!!
You might be watching a lot of people who are good with
words and interacting with different people which is NOT a
natural talent. The easiest way to develop your PR Skills is to
interact with as many people you can. The more the number
of people you interact with, more is the reduction of the
confidence barrier in your heart. Those who have stage fear
will never fear speaking on the stage again.
As a part of a simple PR Training lets do this activity1.You need the telephone directory of your city.
2.You need to get enough phone balance on your phone.
3.Call 50 random numbers, say that you are from XYZ juicer-

mixer-grinder company and you want to go to their house for

a demonstration of the same. Initially you will not be able to
convince people. They might cut the phone or abuse you too
but later you will be able to convince them andget an
appointment from them regarding the same.
4.This way, your PR will get develop to a large extent and the
barrier of talking to new people will easily disappear.
Till the age of 40,your main aim is not to get a house, money,
car, etc. Your aim is to get your CV better than others.
Because at 40,if your CV is better than others, you will be
President or Vice President of some company and if your CV
is not better than anyone, you might be the Head Project
Trainee.
A lot of companies come for your campus recruitment; some
of them are mass recruiters too. They recruit 200 people at a
single time on a nominal pay. If your CV is same as others;
you will be one of those 200. But to achieve something
different and to obtain a better pay, you need to get your CV
better than others. You need to sell yourself, you need to
market yourself because this world revolves around
marketing.
Even the word marketing gets too much marketing!

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Close your eyes and DONT think that YOU CAN DO IT!!
DONT think that YOU CAN ONLY DO IT!!
But for once ask yourself that WHY CANT YOU DO IT?????
Many of us plan a lot, dream a lot and think a lot but what
happens to us when the time comes to choose our thought
and someone elses??
The problem is that we are too scared to try something new,
too scared to think in a unique dimension. For once just let
yourself loose, dont take your decisions based on the
examples but try to build an example. We have no right to
dream and think about things we are too scared to act on.
In the journey of life there is no best friend, there is no
companion. Only thing you can trust on is your inner soul.
Many of you do not realize that the bridge between your
conscience and soul is called Patience. If you have patience,
you can talk to yourself and take better decision rather than
the way around.
In childhood our parents teach us a lot of methods to keep
patience or control our anger such as Drinking water or
counting till 10.All these methods are designed to make us
habitual to invest some amount of time before reacting.
There is only a single reason between any fight or
misunderstanding. Be it misunderstanding differences

between two school kids to deadly fights between two

nations, only one reason is responsible for all i.e.
EXPECTATIONS.
For an example I tell my friend to complete a task (I expect
from my friend that he completes the task) but my friend
fails due to some reason which holds an upmost priority to
him. What happens next??
A misunderstanding gets developed between us as he fails
my expectation and I fail to understand his reason but BOTH
OF US ARE CORRECT ON OUR PERSPECTIVE.
Now either I shout at him or he shouts at me or I TRY TO
KEEP MY SELF IN HIS SHOES AND CIRCUMSTANCES AND
UNDERSTAND.
More than half of Fights and Misunderstandings can be
resolved using this method and this entire trick requires is
Patience, Little silence with yourself, the COUNTING TILL 10
formula your parents taught you.

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Often people do make mistakes. Some decision that you
shouldnt have taken but you would because you just feel
your instinct the similar way. These decisions can be
anything, from choosing a life statement to simple
calculation. Taking a wrong decision is not a problem but how
you look on to it is!!
People would be either taking that mistake as the tool to
lower up their confidence and some would be taking it as an
experience and learn from it.
You may feel that you have made a blunder mistake, Now
how would u be able to face the people you know, You may
feel embarrassed or may feel that the time has come you
should go inside your cocoon as the guilt might make it not
so easy to play normal. Always remember that it does not
matter that at what time the sun is rising from the east. It
might be 6:00 am or 10:00 am, whenever the sun rises, its a
GOOD MORNING. Similarly it does not matter that what
mistake you have done, it does not matter that what damage
your decision has caused, as long as you have learnt from it,
it makes absolutely NULL difference in your life by making
you a better individual.

Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam saidYour best teacher is your last mistake
Now when you know that mistake is your teacher, how we
should avoid this teacher depends entirely on how you make
better decisions and avoid making mistakes. Always
remember that let it be a multi-million deal or a simple
calculation, it does not depends that how much time you
invest before taking the step but what matters is that what
thought of yours made you take that step. If our thought
process is on a right direction, the chances of mistakes get
reduced.
Always remember that

never trust yourself, always believe in yourself

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My Story
When I look back on my past, I often close my eyes and think
about all those wonderful times that I have spent with those
who are no longer here. My journey with Juvenile Care can't
be described in words.
I was 19, sitting idle at home, feeling guilty about not
qualifying any engineering exam. My dad asked me to get
some nails. I accidentally dropped them on my maids son,
causing him a tetanus infection. It was the first time I realized
that a child's cry was something that I have either ignored or
didn't pay attention to before.The next day I went to the
slum where that kid used to reside. Over there, I was in tears
was when I saw a kid drinking water from the drain and
eating leftover food of the house. I realized that its very easy
to waste water and food but there is a percentage of
population who still are hungry and thirsty and are
compelled to do what I just saw.
Juvenile Care has not only been a platform for the youth
across country but has also been a platform for me to do
what I could never do in my life before.
That day when I returned home, I started reading about
some famous child welfare organization websites in India.
Everywhere, what disappointed me was that, some
thousands and lakhs had to be donated to obtain the stature
of a volunteer. This struck me hard and compelled me to
open my own organization which not only acted as a
platform for me but also for others who share my vision.

My life has changed since that particular day.

I have been attached to the term 'social entrepreneur' and
have learnt that I couldn't have been attached to it if I hadn't
followed my dreams.
Whenever I sleep at night, thousands of faces come in my
mind, that doesnt allow me to sleep and keep me working
for the cause. Theses faces are of people who need my help.
These people are residing in slums and villages around us and
are the victims of illiteracy, poverty and lack of proper
education. The hopes of these people keep me driven to
work and achieve what they dream of.
Today Juvenile Care is in 7 cities across India with a volunteer
strength of over 15,000. When I look back on my journey, it
inspires me to achieve more. This journey has been possible
due to two factors. Firstly, an awesome team which is so
dedicated to achieve the happiness of children that
they never wake me up from my sleep. And secondly, the
hopes of those people that motivate me to work for child
welfare and child abuse eradication for 25 hours a day.
"Whenever you see a child begging for money, put your
hands inside your pocket and take out a pen instead of a
coin."

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