28/12/2023
DO THE RIGHT THING, RIGHTLY!!
In May 2008, I was among the exhibitors of Indaba Travel Show in Durban ICC, South Africa.
Before that May, I'd attended several other local exhibitions as a visitors over the years and did enough research on what it takes to be an exhibitor. I was well convinced that I was well equipped for the show.
One day during the Indaba 2008, Mr Moomtaz Juhoor - the Managing Director of Welcome Vacances Agence de Voyages et Receptif of Madagasca visited my stand. After some talks, I realized that he was not a buyer neither a prospective buyer. He went off and he come back again. This time, knowing him as a time robber I couldn't gave him my time nor my attention. Off he went again. After a little while, and I was like aaaaggrh, here he comes again. But this time he come differently. He politely said to me, "you are like my own son to me and I think it is worthy to waste some of my time with you", and he kindly asked if we could sit down for a talk, which I agreed. We talked a lot as far as I could remember from the ownership of the company I present, the management, marketing to the tests of theories I thought I have well researched before the show. After long conversation of what best I could have done, at the bottom line he had this to say "son, you are doing the right thing, wrongly!" this was like a nail in the head!
As he walked away, I looked at an open sky and I thank God for letting him pass into my life. Though we did not seal any business deal, he remained to be the best person I have met on that show.
To-date, his words have been guiding me in all that I'm doing. To do it right, and rightly! You might have been in the same shoes as I was and never had someone to tell you so. It's time to re-think. And if it ever happens you meet someone doing the right thing wrongly, take a courage and do not hesitate to tell him/her so. You might touch his/her soul and change his/her world completely.
Wishing you a Happy and Prosperous N. Y!!
