"I just quit my job, and it's gonna be the biggest leap I've ever taken to follow my passion," Jenn quips happily, imagining the life she's always wanted.
Dream job, world travel, lack of commitment and living free-spirited. In an idealistic world, there are many Jenns who had leaped but only a handful who actually beat the odds and achieve their terms of success.
Not truly knowing what it means to follow her passion, Jenn like many others who took the leap and didn't make it, eventually goes back to her cubicle nation. Her non-existent strategy to 'making it' barely lasted for a year.
To Jenn, the passion has indeed spurred her to take action. Little did she know, passion alone wasn't enough.
Her make-believe reality created a comforting cocoon where in an ideal world of hers and the many hopeful others', they're convinced that with the power of passion, lies the key to success and in turn, everything else will fall in place.
With passion, you can survive doing just what you love.
And if you work hard enough, passion could somehow compensate your lack of strategy.
Perhaps, if you persisted longer, and pushed a little harder, passion could somehow be your strategy towards success.
So what's really your passion?
Passion, an overrated noun, has been a driving trigger for the lucky 22% of fulfilled, satisfied millennials who get to pursue jobs their younger selves had envisioned.
However, the majority no longer find their cocoons comforting, but drowning in suffocation and stress.
If not passion, what then?
Sometimes, we're too focused on one thing, we've forgotten to pause, observe, and enjoy the rest of the life journey. Perhaps your answer lies in living with purpose.
And purpose (instead of passion) could be the key to unlocking your dreams and crafting the life you've always wanted.
How do you find the key then?
Listen and learn from real-life experiences and practitioners. At least I find this method extremely practical and useful.
I've constantly been challenging and learning from real-life experiences and I'm no stranger to growth workshops and personal development space, which I think you should give it a try too, especially if you're looking to "take the leap, which in my honest opinion, is a total BS.
Forget about the leap. Rather, go with this practicality.
Meet @coachmelleow and @maverickfoo the duos who are no stranger in the leadership coaching and talent development sphere.
These high-impact speakers will be coming together to conduct a workshop to share with you the ultimate formula and fundamentals that have tremendously helped discover their own life purpose and living it to the fullest.
Not only these principles and applications have benefitted them, but they have also helped Mel's and Mav's clients achieve clarity and sustainability.
Coach Mel Leow
Leadership Coach, Founder of Asia Pacific Institute of Coaching, Catalyst
- Identify the 7 key areas that is holding you back
- Reframe limiting beliefs to empowering beliefs
- Unlock your Dreams into Reality with 10 Power Questions
- Find your Purpose with the IKIGAI
- GROW from your Purpose to Potential
Maverick Foo
Business Development Strategist, Community Builder
- Leverage on your unique Strength Formula
- Develop the mindset to combat adversity
- Uncover the lies about passion and why it's pure BS
- Discover the inner values that drive your behaviors and beliefs
- Channel your new found drive into epic side projects that put a smile on your face and maybe money in the wallet too
Rediscover your absolute purpose with only real-life applications and methods.
Experience it yourself with only RM50 ($13USD). The best part is you are actually helping a social cause, 'cause all proceeds go to the Catalyst, an initiative founded by Coach Mel Leow in 2013 with the aim of supporting Social Entrepreneurs (SE) in parts of Africa through Coaching, Motivation and Leadership skills.
Change your life, start with a purpose here:
Date: 5th May 2018
Time: 3pm to 6pm
Venue: Nestspace Malaysia, 85M, Jalan SS21/1a, Petaling Jaya, 47400 Selangor
Register: Head over to Live With Purpose and sign up now! Think your family and friends can benefit from this too? Bet you're right— gift them this probably once-in-a-lifetime opportunity so they get to set their life course on track too.
BONUS: Get a FREE book worth RM30 if you sign up now.
Location Map: Google Maps
LIVE YOUR PURPOSE is a half-day program where normal people, just like you, share their stories and strategies they used in discovering their life's purpose and making it happen.
This event is jointly organized by Steemitup.club and Wholesome Living, an initiative that promotes wholesome living by fusing a plant-based diet, exercise, meditation, positive mindset and sustainable lifestyle
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Wait, whatever happened to Jenn now?
A year later, fate decides to bump me into Jenn on the busy streets of Kuala Lumpur. So I decided to follow up with her passion and dreams, in hopes of catching up with her latest development.
For a moment of awkward silence, Jenn admits to feeling tad helpless when all my sincere questions are asked.
From impractical passion to dead dreams, Jenn shares that she should have reevaluated her strategy towards achieving her goals instead.
Deep down, she wishes that someday, she'd finally be able to hit the restart button and muster her residual courage to re-taking the second leap —after learning of her trials and tribulations.
"The good news is…," I told her as I place my hands on her shoulders with the purest intentions of encouragement, "I know someone whom you can speak to. For guidance and experience sharing sake."
"Whatever sweet-nothings that you read on the Internet? Scrap that and go meet real people who get the sh*t done."
My Jenn has met with these soul-changers and has never looked back since.
To all the other "Jenns" out there, if you truly want a change in your life, here's your chance to meet real people who have been there, done that.
Then maybe, you'll know how to work better towards achieving your goals and live your life passionately, if not to the fullest.
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