In the moment when you don’t think, you are still. And what happens is magical. Stillness speaks. Anyone who has done some kind of reflective work in their life is aware of this principle. From stillness can come the loudest voice, the grandest message, the greatest wisdom. I’ve experienced it.Stillness can sometimes have logic. Sometimes it can’t. But regardless, they are all pieces of a puzzle that you’re trying to fit together. I find that stillness is best used or produces the best ideas when you have a conscious idea or project you are working on, but stop to be still so that a tool or piece of wisdom you require can speak.

Being still is simply to allow you to be with the wisdom and the insight, and then to allow you to see for yourself where — if anywhere — that takes you. Most people be still to look for something particular. They are lost in thought. And so most of the time, the magic just passes them by. For me, stillness speaking is like the soul rising like the sun. For me, it produces experiences of joy, happiness, clarity, energy, excitement, oneness, peace and gratitude.

Most people say when they try to be still, they have a lot of mental chatter. My concept of stillness is to allow that mental chatter to happen so it sorts itself out, and behind all of that is the real stillness. Allow the chatter to happen till it’s over, but don’t get lost in it. If we think about it, if we begin to analyze it, if we start to argue with it or try to “figure it out,” we’ll become lost in thought. It could take a minute for some to get there, or even 43 minutes. Every situation will be different. But you will get there, it’s guaranteed.

To often we get drawn back into a life where everything is comfortable. Work is comfortable, life is comfortable. Playing sports is comfortable, living a day of work, play, and eat is comfortable. Not being bothered to get up and cook a delightfully healthy meal is comfort too.

But the real fact is that we’re not going anywhere when we’re like this. Each one of us has within us infinite potential, but it’s those who get up and show courage to live a powerful life on purpose that get somewhere. When you take responsibility for everything in your life you have the power to change it. If you refuse or fail to take responsibility—your life is outside your sphere of control.

Taking responsibility is courage. But even when you take responsibility and you don’t aim high, you settle for less than excellent. One of the biggest lessons that I’ve learned in the last month (and many of you will find this quite surprising especially because I talk a lot about personal growth) is to aim really high. I mean, aim so high that what you want to achieve is totally out of your reach. When you aim so high for something so great and impeccable to be achieved by you, any obstacles, problems or mountains you face become so much more easier to solve than when you had a smaller goal. And this is my current philosophy.

As your eyes open to all your power, you will understand that much of what you learned about how to navigate in this world is convoluted and sometimes ‘backwards.’ For instance, you will realize the traits of honesty, integrity and impeccability make it much easier to create the life you have dreamed about.

Give yourself credit for having the courage to walk impeccably in this world; for accomplishing all that you have. That’s exactly what I’m going to be doing, for sure.

One of my goals is to become a lightweight bodybuilder. I’m starting that in two weeks time. A huge diet change will see me eat up to 4000 calories a day and workout intensely three times a week. Don’t be surprised when I look different the next time you come to a Kavit Haria seminar

Another one of my goals is to be fluent in 10 different languages (excluding English) in the next five years. I’m already getting there with Gujarati and will be there with Spanish in about two months. Anybody up for a Gujarati or Spanish conversation, fluently for about 20 minutes?

When I first told some people close to me about my diet change for bodybuilding, they gave a short laugh which of course, for someone like me who loves to be encouraged externally as well as give myself internal encouragement found it quite harsh and that there was lack of support - but I’ve been used to it for a long while now.

Starting the journey at the age of 16 to become an entrepreneur, finding it difficult to mix in at school and college, but what’s required to step out and be big is courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.

It was Ralph Waldo Emerson who said, “To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.”

Aside from becoming a bodybuilder and learning 10 languages in five years, I also want to achieve other things. I’m currently setting up a program for my company Inner Rhythm to exercise the power of music and peace via Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and more will soon be available at our website and I’ll announce it at this blog soon.

I’m also in the process of formulating ideas for my first book on entrepreneurship, peace and compassionate capitalism all brought together. What I need to make this happen is passion and courage. Without these two, I go nowhere. It’s the same with you.

To end, here’s a question from Marian Wright Edelman, “Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?”