Mother as a Role Model

SHAPING THE FAMILY AND SOCIETY nature’s wheel. Such a person is left unsupported and can never be successful. The same is true of time. Time is the prime asset that is required for successful planning. If you fail to make good use of your time, you will be deprived of that sole basis, after which there is no other basis for success. Success is the outcome of the right planning. There are two basic factors in right planning: internally, it is the nature with which you are born, and externally, it is that period in which you organize all your activities. If you are lacking in either of these, it will lead to disaster. Success comes from planning, and planning is the wise utilization of these two gifts—natural wisdom and time. Akash Ambani learned these lessons by discovering his mother as a role model. His mother serves as a role model for other women. WOMAN AT THE BEGINNING OF ALL GREAT THINGS A maxim says: A woman is at the beginning of all great things. One example in this case is that of Nancy Alwa Edison (d. 1871), the mother of Thomas Alwa Edison (18471931), the famous scientist whose scientific discoveries number more than 1000. A school teacher, Nancy Edison, worked hard to add the name Thomas Edison to the list of the world’s most outstanding scientists. Edison’s hearing was impaired from birth. He could not