Aim High to Achieve Success in SSB

Suddenly I see a growing madness for defence. Youth are now crazy to approach for that uniform. Is this craziness love for the motherland or today’s youth is attracted towards the shine of the profile, respect and the facilities you start earning when you are inducted as an officer. I am sure if you want to serve the defence forces you need purity at the heart. I am quite sure that the assessors at SSB looks for all the quality and make sure that no wrong element gets into our forces. They are specially trained for all this. Life glows when the uniform comes in and the stars shine on the shoulder. Not everyone is lucky enough to achieve all this in life. And believe me this is something you earn and not get without hard work. Life shines only when you have purity of thought and want something sincerely. You are ready to devote everything you love and have just one target, to clear the SSB and be an officer of Indian defence forces.

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss you’ll land among the stars ~~Les brown

This statement makes me feel what every individual should do. Rightly said, always set your targets high so that even if you miss your original dream you land at a position which is also respectable in society. Now this does not mean that you should not realise your capability before setting of targets. Realistic goals should only be set because once you achieve them the morale is boosted and you have a desire to achieve more. Even if you achieve failure you tend to learn where you went wrong and hence the learning of not to repeat the mistakes is there. Failure also teaches that there was some gap we left in our preparation and our goal which led to such results. But yes if you put your full efforts without worrying the end results, you definitely feel satisfied of performing your best.

Many aspirants ask me that their only goal in life is to join defence forces and they have left everything else for them. I would suggest you keep trying till your last attempt, but don’t forget your other responsibilities, you have ageing parents, don’t keep your dependency over them for long, stand on your foot somewhere else and prove your mettle. Clearing SSB, and joining the forces should not be the last dream but it should be one of the dream. Don’t allow to waste your talent. Getting rejected in SSB does not mean you are good for nothing, it simply means you were a misfit for the forces. There are many rays of hope. Keep trying and give you best shot. If you need mentorship join me on facebook and mail me at [email protected] , it would be my pleasure to help future officers.

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Jayendra Singh, Editorial Team

Jayendra is pursuing MBA from IIM Ranchi and is a die heart counsellor for defence aspirants. He was recommended in the first attempt for Indian navy UES entry and is willing to help aspirants to make use of his experience in this field.

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