I turned 28 last month. I took time out to sit down and think about the most important lessons I’ve learned along the way.
These are some of the deep lessons I try to imbibe in my life. Some of these lessons are very powerful, take a moment to absorb them.
Amit Kumar Giri found his passion in helping students find their strengths and uniqueness while conducting free sessions for poor kids. He wanted to do something about it but had no idea at all about where to start.
He quit his well-paying job at media house of repute to start his company Brain Gateway. First few months were not something you’d want to happen in your own life. Everything he has saved was burning out and there was no hope of getting the show going. He has stopped believing that people would love investing in his idea and something interesting happened that he shares with big enthusiasm that helped him get his business off the ground.
Is fear of failing or being rejected stopping you from executing on your idea or plan that you believe will transform your life and life of people around you?
When you are in this situation next time ask yourself these three questions:
What is the worse that can happen as a result of this task or action that I am about to take?
Even if the worse possible happens to me, can I bounce back to where I am today?
What is the best thing that could happen if I do this?
Nine Powerful Lessons I have Learned in 2017
I am sharing with you the most powerful lessons I have learned in 2017. As we start brand new year 2018, these lessons might be useful for you to navigate through your own true potential and make impact in this world in 2018. Here I present you these nine lessons.
In her mid 20’s Lena Kay found herself living in a homeless hostel, depressed, overweight with a brain tumour and living on benefits. Suicidal thoughts became prominent at one point of time in her life. She thought her life has no meaning to be alive. She never thought she could come out of that trap of her own thoughts.
Lena discovered neuroscience, quantum physics, meditation and law of attraction, used the knowledge to transform her life and helped many people on her journey as she organically fell into coaching.
Dr. Divya Ghai left her decade long job as academician to pursue her passion in writing and empowering young people. She got stuck for a while when she was making this change. She was confused whether to get back to job that she didn’t loved anymore or start on completely new journey.
Dr. Divya’s book Stop Fooling Yourself will wake you up to face the simple realities of life, which you have conveniently chosen to ignore
When she needed the most Gemini’s father left her for forever when she was 16. Responsibility of not only taking charge of her own life but also to earn bread for family came to her shoulder. It was not easy for her to fight the challenge life has thrown but she managed to come to the next side of it by overcoming it.
Gemini Dhar is take-charge expert, fashion entrepreneur and Author of the book 9 ways to empower. For over 24 years she has been working with an extensive range of people including celebreties, CEOs, home makers and children to help strengthen their core belief systems and bringing balance in their life.
When he was 18, Dr. Sukhi Muker after severe three-day drug binge almost pulled the trigger of loaded gun to kill himself. That was the lowest point he has ever been in his life. He never thought he’d ever come out of drug addiction, violence and crimes at that point. But with strong desire to heal his own brain and body Dr. Sukhi has transcended boundaries and came along a long way.
Akshay Nanavati almost gave his life to suicide at one point of time. He struggled with drug addiction, PTSD from fighting the war in Iraq with US Marines and alcoholism in his life. He overcame all those challenges and has since explored the most hostile, and awe-inspiring environments on the planet, started a nonprofit foundation and built a business helping people live limitless lifestyles.
Combining his life experience with years of research in science and spirituality, he wrote a book called “Fearvana: The Revolutionary Science of How to Turn Fear Into Health, Wealth and Happiness.” Of the book, The Dalai Lama said “Fearvana inspires us to look beyond our own agonizing experiences and find the positive side of our lives.”
Krishan Chahal was fascinated by the art of memorizing at younger age. In his quest to experiment on the power of his brain he memorized the value of pi upto 43000 decimal places breaking his own Guinness world record of 33000 decimals. Apart from this, he holds other two records one of them being remembering the sequence of several decks of playing cards.
He says he was not the best as a kid but learning and experimenting on his brain led him to have exceptional brain power. His feats are acknowledged by Guinness Book of World Records, Limca Book of Records, Record Holders Republic, Open Record Book and Pi World Ranking.
It was 2008 when world’s economy trembled and Divya’s life changed. She was well payed and having good corporate job, living her dream. With this falling economy, she saw her dear friends being laid off by her company. She was praying every single day asking god to save her job. She was not fired but she fired her job to take new journey of entrepreneurship.
Divya went to become certified Coach training thousands of leaders, CEOs and achievers across the continents. She authored books that got well accolade from her readers. Her latest book Entrepreneur’s Garden went to became Amazon #1 bestseller internationally.
“Meditation is about self love and which is about acceptance of whole of you” Chitra Jha is a Holistic Healing coach, Author of five books and Motivational speaker just to name a few. She has been grounded in Allopathic, Homeopathic and Ayurveda principles. She has also mastered the art of reiki, past life regression, inner child work.
Her articles and books has been featured in almost all national newspapers. Her book “Achieve Your Highest Potential” and “The art and science of meditation” has received tremendous accolade from her readers and critics.
“With every failure, you become a better person, you become sharper and wiser.” Kiruba Shankar had several reasons to settle down for an ordinary life. He got fired from his job when he needed it the most. He lost 10 Lakhs (1 Million) rupees in a deal where his client absconded after he delivered his commitment. But this man was never to give up trying to pursue his dreams. He says the best lessons of your life are learned when you are down and dusted. He sat down with me to share these hard learned lessons of his life in this episode.
“Unless you evolve along with the changing world you will not reach where you should be.” Manoj Shrivastava is senior IT Leader who has learned the art of wealth creation the hard way. With no formal financial education in his school and college he was tied between his temptations to consumerism and his desire to create wealth for himself and his child. More often than not the temptations won over the desire.
“Our limiting belief leads to inaction and inaction is the biggest enemy of achievement.” Manish Pharasi is personal development coach, NLP master practitioner and facilitative trainer. He has been into developing and coaching people for larger part of his life. Manish has helped thousands of people to live their lives as the best version of themselves. He has traveled around the globe teaching people his IncredibleU principles which he has now put together in amazon best-seller Unveil The IncredibleU book.
“If you have a desire to find out a way, nobody can stop you” Maruti Makwana started out as a freelance trainer after he quit his first job after 9 months. It was a big challenge for him since he studied in Gujrati medium and had very limited skill in English. People won’t believe a 23 year old kid asking for training engagements in corporate giants but somehow he managed to get his first client. Since then there is no looking back. He’s so proud of that decision he has taken in his life.
“If there is complete need of certainty, Sorry entrepreneurship is not for you” Jogesh Jain decided to quit his well-paying job at multinational company of repute to follow his passion of helping youth to become more employable. Jogesh has trained thousands of students the skills they need to crack their job interviews and has published the book “How to Get That Job” where he shares how one can land his/her perfect job. His programs help job seekers to build Confidence, Courage and Competence.
“If you are not enjoying what you are doing. You are not living your life fully” At the age of 54 after serving for Indian army for more than three decades, Brig. Sushil Bhasin has realized his life purpose of helping students succeed in their lives. It all happened when he was presented with a scroll signed by 800 students thanking him for transforming the school within […]
“You cannot win big by playing smaller games, if you want to win big you need to play bigger games.” Navin Gulia’s life changed when he was taking part in a sport activity while in army. He fell down from height and broke down his neck- bone leaving his body paralyzed. But, that couldn’t stop him from making his life iconic. He set out on life-threatening, all-terrain driving adventure to Marsimik (one of the highest mountain passes in the entire world) driving from New Delhi for 55 hours non-stop to the top that is 1400 feet higher than Mount Everest base camp. His record remains unbeaten for 13 years now.
“When I have no one around to tell me I can’t. I have always done Mysterious things”. Inspiring poem by Bijay Gautam: I had dreamed to fly higher when there was no one around, To tell me I will fall apart and will not be able to even crawl, I had dreamed to dive deep into the sea when there was no one around, To tell me shark will rip […]