The Real Influencer

The Perfect Story

The day Nandini Came and dropped Pari, almost 3 years back, I didn’t know what I was getting.

Emotionally I was living the lowest phase of my life 2022-2023 were my drowning years.

At that time I had barely any students. I was going through the phase of hopelessness too.

As Pari sits for first class, I understand that if someone is more hopeless than me, it would be Pari; she would not lift her face for eye contact, nor would she solve a single problem.

In the initial days, her good days would be solving 2 maths problems a day.

Her self-esteem was ruthlessly low.
Practically I should have given up on her, because internally I was also fighting a battle to survive.

I would lie down to sleep and think about Pari, is it a wise choice to continue with her? Will she be able to solve her school paper? She was in a different school then and I was an amateur.

Most days I had self-doubt. Am I applying the right strategies with her?

Then the year changed, she switched schools, and a new journey to understand the school and the pattern began.

The change of school showed a positive change in attitude towards herself.

Her self-esteem was climbing the ladder and for the first time, she knew that I would not give up on her. So she has to do the math.

I would write letters of hope to her when she did not perform well. I would not give up until she removed the fear of math and the feeling she was drowning in.

Last year, after much courage she got 37/40, I don’t remember how much she got of 80 may be above 70 but it doesn’t matter.

Because for me the growth was that she completed the paper rather than sitting blank and not attempting anything.

Personally, she is an annoying student as she won’t sit still even now, sometimes she doesn’t want to do anything and just comes and sits. I became a safe space for her.

I understood one thing here, children achieve differently at different pace and with different individual.

I couldn’t feel happier than this she is overcoming many things she feared once upon a time.

As a mother Pari’s mother was doing everything right, I just amplified her vision by being there for both of them.

Some mothers are raising children.
Some mothers are raising children while healing parts of themselves at the same time.

And that kind of motherhood deserves a different kind of respect.

The mother who pauses before shouting because she remembers what harsh words felt like.
The mother who listens because she grew up unheard.
The mother trying to raise emotionally secure children when nobody taught her how.

That is invisible work.
And it changes generations.

This Mother’s Day is for the mothers choosing awareness over anger, connection over ego, and softness in a world that often mistakes it for weakness. ❤️

How to Guide Him/Her (Important for you as a parent/mentor)

At 16, don’t just tell them to read—guide like this:
• 📌 After each book, ask: “What career did this make you curious about?”
• 📌 Encourage journaling (1 page per book)
• 📌 Connect books → real careers (CA, MBA, CFA, entrepreneur, banker)

🎯 Bonus Tip (Very Important)

If he is not a heavy reader, start with:
• Rich Dad Poor Dad (easy + engaging)
• Then move to deeper ones like The Intelligent Investor

💡 How These Help in Commerce Careers

Even though these are not “commerce textbooks”, they build:
• 📊 Discipline → needed for CA / finance
• 🧠 Decision-making → business & entrepreneurship
• 🎯 Focus → exams + long-term goals
• 💼 Work ethic → real career success

👉 Basically: These books build the person before the profession.

I created this unique report for one of my client recently.

DM “Books”

if you want this full analysis how I evaluated each book’s importance .

Some books entertain you. Some unsettle you. The Housemaid does both—and then quietly lingers in your mind long after the final page.

Trigger Warning:
This book contains themes of psychological abuse, emotional manipulation, gaslighting, domestic control, power imbalance, and implied violence. Some scenes may be distressing for readers sensitive to these topics.

Is the book perfect? No. Some moments stretch believability, and seasoned thriller readers might predict parts of the reveal. But the emotional payoff, the tension, and the sheer readability make it hard to put down and even harder to forget.

Read the full review linked in my story and highlights.

I read it on Kindle, it is free if you have a subscription.