About a month ago, I broke up with my partner/boyfriend of three years. Not knowing how to deal with the loss, I threw myself into my work. I organised workshops, managed events, coached people, and …
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Stability and instability In our lives, we need both stability and instability. These can also be understood as certainty and uncertainty. We construct structures for ourselves that provide us the stability and instability we seek. …
Growing up in Singapore in the nineties, I always felt vaguely stifled. Maybe it was having my helicopter mum breathe down my neck every time I did my homework. Maybe it was the weekly ‘Civic …
When I first started this blog, my intention was to chart my growth along the journey of evolution. Would my writing change as my perspective of the world shifted? Looking back on my posts one …
I recently turned 30. The biggest turning point of my life was when I shifted from an achievement-driven life to a relationship-driven life. Over the years, I’ve learned that how much I achieve is not as …
It is easy to be hard in this world. It is easy to compete, to achieve, to conquer, to fight. Being hard is what our culture rewards and demands. It is far more difficult to …
Back when I was an investment banker, it seemed like I had reached a peak in my life. I was young, free, living in New York City, and earning more money than I knew what …
Ever notice yourself procrastinating before you begin a piece of work that’s important to you? Intellectually, we know what we should do. We should have that conversation. We should reply that email. We should submit …
Imagine you’re playing a game, the game of life. You’re standing in the middle of a many-laned road facing the traffic. The cars are coming toward you. These are life’s challenges. There are many challenges …
The more I coach, the more I realise that people are just looking for love, and that love is everywhere. We are starved of love not because it doesn’t exist. However, because of how we …
We humans love personal development advice. We love articles that tell us how to be happy, books that teach us how to be successful, commencement speeches that preach risk-taking. There are 4 tips to clear …
I had a WOW coaching moment today. I was just sitting with the client, being with him and holding space for him. In a moment of quiet knowing, I picked up the crux of the …
I’m an introvert, and terrible at expressing myself. But I’ve always wanted to communicate with people and be understood. It’s like there’s a beautiful song I wish to sing, but I don’t have a voice …
I was in primary school, in music class. Mrs Bong was choosing students for the school choir. She asked each of us to stand up and sing. If she found a student suitable, that student …
Since young we have been taught to know things. Our school system gave us exams to which there were fixed answers, and to do well we had to show how much we knew. We took …
Being sad is a natural emotional response to being alive in this world. The world can be sad sometimes, and life can be sad sometimes. People quarrel, people leave, things don’t go the way they …
Ever get the feeling that time is just passing you by? You wake up each day and dread getting out of bed, because each day feels like a repeat of the day before. You know, …
Since young I have loved helping people. I mentored youths, volunteered with Habitat for Humanity, raised money through charity runs, and became a tutor in university. A few years ago I even left my job …
We were taught a great many things in school. How to complete assignments, how to obey our teachers, how to study for exams. But we never learned the important things. Like how to love, how …
It is a habit of mine to push myself beyond my limits to see what I am capable of. I want to see where my potential is and I want to go as far as …
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