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What Do You Want To Do With Your Life?

What Do You Want To Do With Your Life

I see dead people everyday in my life. They are dead and they still walk among us.

I am not joking and really mean it.

The living dead that I am referring to are people who just exist in today’s society with no aim or purpose in their lives. They are living, but yet dead at the same time (ironic isn’t it?). When you ask them what makes them excited or passionate, a large number of people have forgotten about it. They cite statements like they had dreams when they were younger. Some even had ambitions.

The sad thing is that after many years of working and climbing the corporate ladder, they looked back and asked themselves, “Am I happy and is this life?”

Half Time

In the book Halftime, it describes that most people really work hard to pursue success in the first half of their lives.

Everyone has a different idea of what success looks like. For some it will be money or career, while others it could be about places they have travelled or people they have met.

However, when they enter the second half of their lives, they look back at the work of their hands and ask the following fundamental questions:

“What have I done so far?” and the usual “Am I contented with it?”

They realise that their lives are no longer about pursuing success, it is about pursuing significance.

How I started my entrepreneur journey

I started off my career working in an engineering company that was extremely established in Singapore. I was into building automation and served as a project engineer handling building projects. It was something that I could do, in fact, it was something that I was trained well for. I mean, my early years in life was spent on preparing for a job in the engineering sector.

Until something happened

At the age of 26, I started to ask myself a question which all adults actually ask at one point in their lives and that is “What do I really want to do with my life?”

It was astonishing simple but yet, it could not be answered at all. I was dumbfounded.

This question kept ringing in my head. I actually ignored it, thinking that it will go away.

It did go away, only to resurface again a week later, then another week and a couple of days later. It just kept coming back.

Some adults ignored it to a point where their dreams were drowned by the immediate concerns of providing for the family.

I acknowledge that all of us have a responsibility to fulfill to our families, but what has happened to our dreams in the process? Can there be a way to fulfill both at the same time?

Took me a year

I took a year of soul searching and to constantly ask what I am passionate about? And I’ve finally found it.

Not only I found it, I took massive action towards it.

I discovered that I really love to teach and inspire people towards fun, loving and supportive relationships.

I started asking myself how can I do more of what I am passionate about? Are there groups that I can join to do just that? Is there a career decision that I have to make for that to happen? Can I change my attitude towards life and start taking personal responsibility for all the results that I have been getting?Will I make a firm decision to change my life right now?

Fast forward into the present now

I have traveled to 7 countries so far, conducting training and giving talks on motivation, mindset change and building teams. At a young age, I have spoken to CEOs, directors and people twice my age. I have given keynote speeches in conferences and learning seminars. I have personally trained or spoken to 5400 people. Everything started because I started to find out what makes me excited and alive.

So, my question to you is what makes you excited? What makes you feel alive? Will you take some time to list them down? Don’t do it for me, but do it for yourself!

Do read my questions that I have posted earlier here and reflect on it.

Take time to clear the clutter off your mind and another 30 minutes to reflect upon it.

Do share with me on what you have discovered!