self-awareness - Vito Lim

Your Life’s Meaning Through Three Key Phases

What is your life’s purpose? It’s one of life’s most profound and difficult questions. The variations and perspectives on this question are endless, but ultimately, it boils down to discovering what each of us wants to achieve in this brief yet magical journey called life. "Life

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Essential Leadership Traits for Inspiring and Empowering Teams

"Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and actions." - Harold S. Geneen Equating leadership with authority is a common misconception that still persists in today's society. When we think of leaders, images of a high-ranking officer in the military or a

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From Success to Slump: Understanding the Arrival Fallacy and How to Avoid It

Congratulations! After investing a significant amount of your time and effort, you finally achieved that special goal you have set for yourself. But what’s next? What Is Arrival Fallacy After that surge of satisfaction and happiness, have you experienced your emotions normalising and even felt a tinge of disappointment

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Looking Inwards - How I Navigate Difficult Dialogues And Lead With Trust

Having difficult conversations is truly not for the faint hearted. Sometimes, high stakes are involved, such as regulatory compliance or about a family's livelihood. There are also conversations that take you for an emotional ride, caught in between a cross fire of shouts and unpleasant vocabularies. Is there

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Unlocking Success: How Being Agile Gives You the Edge

What does being agile mean in today’s society? And how does it give you that competitive edge over others? You might have visualised a person who is quick on his/her feet. Someone who is physically athletic and fit. On the contrary, what we are going to explore in

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The Path To Self-Responsibility

Are you still ruminating about the painful mistakes you made in the past and fearful of the uncertainties in the future? Maybe, you have learnt from your past experiences, now eager and hopeful to apply your insights to overcome future challenges? The concept of self-responsibility is simple to understand, yet

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The Words That Changed My Life

As long as you have done your best. - My Mum As a kid, my parents were the primary role model in my life. Their beliefs, actions, and words often leave a deep impact on me as I grew up under their protection and guidance. Out of the countless life

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What Does Work Mean To You - From Burnout To Engagement

"Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work." - Robert Orben It isn’t a surprise to say that majority of us are working for the money in this

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Humility - A New Perspective

"Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less." - Rick Warren What Is Humility? Often touted as a virtue to possess, humility is about having an attitude that everyone is equal, which translates to actions that embody fairness and empathy. In the

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What would your message to the world be?

If you had the opportunity to gather the attention of everyone on Earth for 1 minute, what message would you want to share to empower them for their future? Pause. Give it a shot. This isn’t a trick question, but one that stimulates reflection and contemplation of your life’

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Reviewing My 2023 Goals (Part 3 of 3)

The future starts today, not tomorrow. – Pope John Paul II With 2 months left for 2023, the spookiness of Halloween had creeped by and the Christmas jingles can be heard just around the corner. As we take a look at the outstanding goals set at the start of the year,

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Reviewing my 2023 Goals (Part 2 of 3)

The way we spend our time defines who we are. – Jonathan Estrin There is a common saying that how you spend your time everyday, is how you will spend your entire life. To many of us who hear or read this for the first time, it is easy to shake

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Reviewing My 2023 Goals (Part 1 of 3)

The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot. – Michael Altshuler Have I been a responsible and disciplined pilot for the year of 2023? As we enter the final quarter of the year, this post serves as a reflective one for myself to review what

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Overcoming Your Fears

What is fear? "an unpleasant emotion caused by the threat of danger, pain, or harm." - Definition from Oxford Languages Fear is an emotion that even the most successful and respected amongst us will encounter and experience. Yet, these people do not seem to be fazed by the

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The Concept of Modularity

The pursuit of life holds different meaning for each and everyone of us. One thing is for sure, there are challenges and personal goals that each of us will encounter and attempt to achieve. Although these events can be of varying scale and held across different lengths of time, it

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Your 100-Seconds Life

Imagine your life as a short 100-seconds video. In the first 20 seconds or so, life is fuss free. It is also fun and exciting as you get to learn and try a breadth of unique experiences. Then comes the next 60 seconds, where it is jam packed with responsibilities

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Handle Stressful Situations Mindfully

This is the third part of a series of posts detailing my key learning points from the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course conducted by Brahm Centre Singapore. If this happens to be the first post you are reading, you can reorientate yourself with the different posts of my mindfulness

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The Benefits of Daily Mindfulness Practices

This is the second part of a series of posts detailing my key learning points from the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course conducted by Brahms Centre Singapore. If this happens to be the first post you are reading, you can reorientate yourself with part one of my mindfulness journey

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The Start of My Mindfulness Journey

“Do not lose yourself in the past. Do not lose yourself in the future. Do not get caught in your anger, worries or fears. Come back to the present moment, and touch life deeply. This is mindfulness.” – Thich Nhat Hanh Simply, it is the practice of being present on purpose,

finance

Jars of Wealth

Do you remember your childhood days, where you eagerly stash away your leftover coins at the end of each week into a little piggy bank in your room? Slowly but surely, you accumulate your savings in order to achieve your goals. You could be saving to buy an item such

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Relationship With Money - To Control Or Be Controlled

Money is a great servant but a bad master - Francis Bacon A subject that plays a pivotal role in everyday living, but not talked about enough objectively or taught sufficiently during most of our upbringing days. It is interesting that although our current education system prepares us to provide

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Kaizen - How This Concept Set Me Up To Be Better

Kaizen (改善) is represented by two Chinese characters meaning "change" and "for the better" respectively. Kaizen is often understood as the process of seeking "continuous improvement" and commonly used as a management concept or approach to improve business processes. Understanding Kaizen I was first

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Life Lessons From A River

"What makes a river so restful is that it doesn't have any doubt. It knows where it is going and it doesn't want to go anywhere else." - Hal Boyle Do you have doubts whenever you are required to make an important or big

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My First Wandering Step

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- With the close of 2021, I set myself an overarching theme for the year ahead: Introspection. To raise my self awareness, and examine my thoughts and ideas as I go about my daily living. I realised that during the past few years of my life as a young working