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10 Lessons I’ve Learned from 10 Years in Career Coaching

2023 marks the 10th year since I started career coaching! Back in 2012, I was awakened to the fact that I had no further interest in climbing the corporate ladder after my early roles in international HR and talent development. Then, confirming my life’s direction during a life-changing trip to India & Nepal, I started…

How do we survive in this AI era?

How do we survive in this AI era? In this era where AI will for sure become mainstream (I wrote an IG post on AI here) and change human behaviours entirely, what we crave even more will be truth, and human connections. Because the world doesn’t need us to be robots anymore! When I decided to start…

AI is the Collective Consciousness?!

AI is JUST a product of our 🔮Collective Consciousness🔮 How do you feel when the “collective consciousness” is no longer something esoteric as a spiritual or philosophical term, but something you can SEE & INTERACT with? Whether it’s ChatGPT or MidJourney or the latest tools that are emerging, these tools synthesize what people 💬have already…

Self-Love Reset: Invitation

Self Love In Embodiment – How Does It Look Like? In need of a Self-Love Reset? Imagine the version of you who have so much self-love that every time you come across a mirror, you can’t help smiling and appreciating how amazing you are just as being true to yourself! How would you show up…

Human Design Authority: What type of leader are you?

Human Design Authority: What type of leader are you? A few months ago, I watched a Japanese anime series called Cells At Work, which is an educational and entertaining series of stories that humanise cells in the body, and portray how they play vital functions by division of labour and cooperate to maintain a person’s health,…

Being Grounded = Settling For Less?

Being grounded = settling?

Reparent Yourself – How?

Reparent yourself is sacred work of a lifetime – are you ready to be fully committed to who you truly are? It’s so hard to be a conscious parent, or just be a conscious adult in general. Would you agree? You already know one’s childhood could make or break one’s life. Therefore, with the awareness…

Do You Want To Become A Healer?

  Recently I keep getting feedback from clients who told me they would love to pursue a “spiritual” or “healing” career to raise the positive vibes for humanity. Of course this is great news that more and more conscious people choose to answer their callings and to live out their missions🌟 As a career and…

How To Really Follow Your Gut in Human Design?

Follow your gut human design “Follow Your Gut.” In Human Design, that’s the “mantra” for Generators and MGs when it comes to decision making, and responding to act at the right timing. Is your gut telling you: Hell Yes! or Hell No! or um….not now?   However you might ask, “How do I know if…

When To Pause Your Inner Healing?

Are you wearing scars with you like a badge, or are you showing up in the world with renewed skins? Innerwork can be a life-long thing. Be it healing traumas, emotional wounds healing, reparenting, inner child healing, past life clearing, ancestral healing, mindset work etc Let’s recall…When did you embark on your self-healing journey? For…

Do You Believe in Destiny? The Story of The Drowning Man

Do you believe in Destiny? Do You Believe in Destiny? I do – because I believe that our existence on earth is never just a random accident; Each of us has a special reason WHY we are here (= our purpose), and it’s our responsibility to figure out what that is, and then live it…

Rediscovering Purposeful Work as a Parent

Purposeful Work as a Parent – Is It Even Possible?! Becoming a mom is a life-transforming experience; For those who chose this path of parenthood, it’s a watershed of a woman’s life – and her path to maturity and personal power. We used to find pleasures in little details in life and in beautiful things…

Who Are “Non-Essential”? Who Decides?

There was a time when my workplace was in the basement of a hotel. With no windows and no access to the sky view, every morning I sneaked in through a backstreet staff entrance, walked down the humid corridor with fluorescent lights, breathed in and out the recycled conditioned air of an aged building, and…

Mending Relationship With Parents During Lockdown

When Your Parents Turn Into Teenagers During Lockdown How do you cope during this lockdown in 2020? The biggest disruption for me at this global-wide stay-at-home social experiment, is on how to balance intimacy and personal space with my loved ones while we are staying together within that 4 walls 24/7. Does anyone feel the…

How To Make Friends With Your Emotions During Lockdown

Making Friends With Your Emotions During Lockdown How are you? I hope you are doing okay in this global lockdown! We in Hong Kong have been in hermit mode for 70+ days. In my family we take turns for grocery shopping every 4-5 days, and stay inside for the rest of the time. As an…

Planet Earth Is Shutting Down – How To Prepare for Stormy Time Like Now

Planet Earth Is Shutting Down to Recover   How are you? I hope the coronavirus and its impact hasn’t brought too much panic to your life just yet. Something for sure though, what is happening in the world reminds us how closely connected we are with the Universe, in every breath we take. We are…

Real Peace vs Fake Peace: Calmness Amidst The Storm

Real Peace vs Fake Peace   When you are immersing yourself in a serene lake, a blissful mountain top, a church or temple, a breathtaking retreat place, or engaging in a mindfulness activity like art, handicraft and sports, it is easier to feel peaceful in such environments. Because what we design, design us. Our environment…

Stop Self-Sabotaging with Affirmations + Mirror Work

Self-Sabotaging, Affirmations, And Mirror Work There was a time when I was too shy and nervous about a presentation at work, someone recommended me to practice in front of a mirror. I did. It felt awkward at first to talk to yourself in the mirror, seeing yourself eye-to-eye, but soon it becomes a very soothing…

Willpower in Human Design: Undefined Will and Productivity

Willpower in Human Design: Undefined Will = Not Getting Things Done? Willpower in Human Design: Undefined Will & Relation to Productivity   In Human Design, one of the most powerful motors is the Will/Heart center. It governs our willpower, our sense of worth, and our persistence in pursuing our ego desires and commitment to push…

Introverts: Your Holiday Survival Toolbox

Introverts’ Holiday Survival Toolbox   Holiday Seasons are supposed to be joyful and fun-loving! For some, it could be stressful and nostalgic as well. For introverts, in particular, we could feel the pressure to socialised and are generally expected to be chatty, cheerful, and welcoming whoever comes our way with open arms. Below I’ve summarised…

How To Turn Your Shyness Into Superpower?

Shyness Into Superpower ⁣ What Exactly is Shyness?⁣ ⁣It’s an awkwardness you have when you are around other people.⁣ It’s NOT the same as introversion; You can be extrovert, introvert or ambivert, and be shy at the same time.⁣ ⁣ The pre-requisite for shyness to happen, is that you have a keen awareness and sensitivity…

Types of Quiet: Which One Are You?

2 Types of Quiet Nature As an introvert who also have a lot of introverted friends and clients, I’ve identified a significant indicator of how happy and powerful you are as a quiet person. It is that under the surface of showing up as a quiet person, what is the energy underneath? Fear or Love?…

Window Shopping For Your Next Career

Feeling stuck in a job yet not sure what else is possible? Actively start your job hunting like a game! I see browsing through career sites as Window Shopping and getting to job interviews like trying on a dress in the fitting room to see if it fits. So why not? You only buy when…

Untangle Your Life Through Decluttering

Untangle Your Life Like Knots While doing my mid-year decluttering, I found some neglected accessories sitting neatly inside a 4×6 partitioned jewelry box, tangled.(what kind of description is it – neatly tangled?!!) The first thought that came to my mind was, “What have I done?”😭 And then I feel excitedly challenged. What’s more fun than…

Words To Take Back Your Power At Work

The WORDS we choose have enormous power to shape how we think. one word to take back your power When you can put the right word to describe a complex feeling or abstract concept concretely, it makes a paradigm shift. And suddenly, the solutions and possibilities are falling into your lap out of nowhere. ‘One…

4 Steps To Get Unstuck And Move On

steps to get unstuck and move on I was watching the MasterChef finals on a Sunday; The 4 finalists, who have grown so much after going through levels of challenges, harsh feedbacks, mistakes and fierce competitions among peers, continued their growth journey in the pursue of excellence. And among the best of the best, what…

Why Self-Respect Is The Root of Personal Power

Why Self-Respect Is The Root of Personal Power Jun 19: Self-Respect Monthly Career Freedom Guide Is one of your weaknesses being TOO NICE? Like, you are always the first person to give an apology, regardless of whether it’s your fault, to make peace? Or when different opinions are expressed, you usually are the one to…

Self-Worth: Knowing Your Worth and Stop Giving People Discounts

May 19: Self-Worth Monthly Career Freedom Guide A lot of changes are happening, momentum is building, but the new future might not seem to be right next door >>> Do you feel the same? A lot of people in my circle are also yearning for a fresh new start in their careers and in how…

April 2019: Feel Motivated And Take Inspired Actions

Feel Motivated And Take Inspired Actions Career Monthly Freedom Guide Can you smell the Spring in the air? The vitality, forward-moving momentum and action-taking vibe that you can literally feel from those around you. So this month, I’d love to start the conversation with you on action taking: When it comes to taking actions, I often hear clients…

March 2019: Embrace Your Shyness & Quirkiness

So What is Shyness anyway? It’s an awkwardness you have when you are around other people. It’s NOT the same as introversion; You can be extrovert, introvert or ambivert, and be shy at the same time. The pre-requisite for shyness to happen, is that you have a keen awareness and sensitivity to energies around you. Which means, very probably,…

I hate every job I had. Is there something wrong with me?

The other day I was having a coffee chat with an old friend of mine. We talked about life, careers, and how much we hate our jobs. And while we have been switching through multiple jobs and career options in our paths, changing jobs feels like we are just jumping from one hell to another. …

Feb 2019: Honouring Yourself

Welcome to our Monthly Freedom Guide 🙂 Happy Lunar New Year! wishing you all a joyful, fulfilling and exciting year of the Pig in life and in your career! Whenever we are entering a new beginning, we bring our hopes, desires and dreams into the new future as we move forward. Interestingly, do you sometimes…

The 2-Year-Itch In Your Job, And 5 Questions To Get Unstuck & Find Your Deepest Why

Do you feel like you’ve outgrown your current job (again) and ready to move on to the next? Think about the smartphone you are using – if you’ve been using the same phone for 2 years (probably months before that), it’d be running slower and slower and the battery is not performing at its peak….

January 2019: Plan That Works!

Researches show consistently that 15th January is usually the time when most people give up on their new year resolutions. Because? It’s the same LIST carried forward every year anyway!!! Get up 1 hour earlier to workout and go to bed before 11pm >>> But I arrived home at 9pm after working overtime…..that’sexhausting Cut sugar from my…

New Year Resolution – Freedom To Be Yourself

What is your theme for the new year? Mine is “To Lead”. For the last 2 years, my theme was Freedom. The freedom to use my time according to my wish, to choose work I love and that allows me to express my genius, and to choose people I love to work within an environment…

December ‘s Guide: Ride The Wave

Finally, we are coming to the final month of the year 2018. Are you feeling excited? relieved? Anxious about what will come next? Change is definitely in the air, whether it’s on a personal level, on a collective consciousness level, on the technological breakthrough level, or on the global economy level. We are all preparing, in…

Ready To Grow Your Impact? 5 Actions To Start (+ Useful Tools)

What do you do when you come across an inspiring piece of writing or video online? You Google that person‘s name. That‘s it. Then, when you Google your own name, what do you get? Here‘s Come Your Personal Branding 101 – Owning Your Online Presence! 1.Claim the Domain of Your Name I mean – what?…

An Unusual Holiday Gift Guide

Black Friday is coming! Have you started researching the best offers in town, reading every holiday gift guide you can found, and preparing your to-buy list? Although I don’t celebrate Thanksgiving, in Asia we’ve just experienced a HUGE online shopping event on 11 Nov. So I get it – the entire sales season feels like…

My Mission was always within me…I just failed to recongise it earlier.

Reading your old diaries and writings could be an embarrassing experience when you tap into the brain of a more naive version of you. What bothered you when you were 10 years younger? How did you find the solution back then? Do these issues and struggles keep coming back to your current life? Why? As I’m purging…

November’s Guide: Recalibrate

A Month for Recalibration! As we are approaching the end of the year, I’m sure many of you are working on tying up loose ends, and getting yourself ready for a brand new start! For many, 2018 is a year of BREAKTHROUGH – earth-shaking, chaotic, lots of deep lessons learnt, and the uncovery of new strengths in…

October’s Guide: 70% Good vs Perfectionism

Good Enough vs Perfectionism? How many times have you abandoned a work-in-progress project, because you think it is not good enough…yet? How many email drafts sit in your mailbox after endless polishing and still never get sent? When was the last time you took a selfie ONCE and post it on Instagram immediately without editing?…

Sep’s Guide: Money And Trust

What Is Money Anyway? A Quick Money Mindset Discussion When we talk about career freedom and happiness, money plays a big role in it. Yet, money topics are so seldomly discussed other than from the Personal Finance angle. If we see this from a broader sense of how money flows around the world and throughout our everyday...

Career Playbook: Adding Playfulness To Work!

Career Playbook for Re-Energising Your Work First things first – Why would a Career Playbook ever exist?! Isn’t work supposed to be SERIOUS??! Well…career topics can be boring…until they are not! Creativity and innovation happens when we can more FUN  and OPEN-MINDEDNESS into our work. As adults, we need the time and space to PLAY…

Embracing Ambiguity: Be Like Water In A Chaotic World

Career Freedom Guide: July embracing ambiguity Be Like Water Happy July! We’ve been half-way through 2018, how has it been for you? For me, I would use Disruptive to describe what I’ve been through in the past 6 months. Course-correcting in the sense that I have too many ideas to implement that on some days that I don’t know…

Do You Choose your Soul Purpose, Or It Chooses You?

Do You Choose your Soul Purpose Or It Chooses You? Last Sunday I met with Jane again, my 1st ever coaching client, over a coffee chat. It was 3 years ago in May when we first met. Back then I was still the Career Advisor at a University, and I was giving job hunting advice…

June’s Guide: How To Overcome Procrastination And Get Stuff Done

A Written Guide For Multi-Passionates by a Recovering Procrastinator Monthly Career Mini-Guide Series – August 18 Answer me first – Do you have more than ONE browser tabs opened right now? How many? 9? 17? 23? 52??? Same here! And there is nothing wrong with it  In fact, almost everyone has some ADD symptoms in…

May’s Guide – Raw Authenticity

Emotions have potent power. Whether you label them as “positive” emotions or “negative” ones, they are there for a reason. Most people (including myself) tend to suppress or repress the so-called “negative” emotions over the years, and reject to acknowledge that they are indeed part of who we are as human beings. We are not robots nor…

When Silence Is Not Golden

When Silence Is Not Golden “Speak up for yourself; Because if you don’t, no one would.” Growing up, have you ever wonder why we need to adhere the social standards to be a “good girl” or “good boy”? For kids, “being good” usually means being obedient to authorities, peace-loving, nice and friendly to others, polite, attentive, having…

April’s Guide: Recreate

Life is very much like building a castle with legos; we work hard, take one step at a time, and build things up towards your goals. Earlier in life, you might think a castle will eventually make you happy. But mid-way through it, you realise that what you really want is a cottage house by…

How To Gain Clarity and Get Unstuck In Your Career (PDF)

Clarity is becoming a buzzword nowadays; To me, it means being able seeing things exactly as they are in essence. When the water in a pond is clear, you can see the stones (maybe jewels) underneath. When the water is muddy, however, all you can see is the muddy water! Most people who stay stuck…

What Your Career and a Roomba Have In Common

There are many courageous people out there, wandering aimlessly like a Roomba vacuuming robot, trying to find the right career/life path for them using a “trial and error” method. There are EVEN more people who have been saying “I’ll quit!” or complain about life for 6 months more and still not doing anything about it….

Clarity: Unstuck and Liberate Your Career [FREE REPORT]

Do you really know WHERE exactly you are heading to with CLARITY? clarity Unstuck and Liberate Your Career Clarity is becoming a buzzword nowadays; To me, it means being able seeing things exactly as they are in essence. When the water in a pond is clear, you can see the stones (maybe jewels) underneath. When the…

February’s Guide: Self Love at Work

It’s February already! ​ January passed in the blink of an eye, with massive action-taking and initiating energy for many people. On the second month of the year, I encourage you to pace yourself, and slow down a little. Our theme of the month is: Self-Love.  I’m not sure how that phrase sounds to you. Cheesy? Romantic? A luxury for…

3 Steps To Make Your Current Work More Enjoyable TODAY

I get it. You hate your job. You know what? Actually, you are one of the majority. — According to Gallup’s latest  2017 State of the Global Workplace, 85% of employees worldwide are not engaged or are actively disengaged in their job. The figures for East Asian cities are even worse. But taking the leap to…

Are you a Multipotentialite or a Renaissance Soul?

Multipotentialite Renaissance Soul? Or in other words, do you have many interests and creative pursuits and do not want to be pinned down to one job? Maybe you are not having ADHD in your career choices; rather, you just would not have “one true calling” the way specialists do. There is nothing wrong with you!…

How To Choose A Resume Template That Works

If you type “free resume templates” in google, there could be over 90k results return. However how many of these templates are tested to be effective in getting you job interviews? Moreover, we all have different career strengths and situations, how to choose a resume format that best fit my current situation and highlights my…

Do You Have Pre-Birthday Depression Too?

The “Pre-Birthday Depression” Syndromes My birthday is in August. So every year during summer when I officially get one year older, I would have a sudden surge of panic to make a checklist, and measure my life and see if I’m “on track”. It is the kind of feeling that we know our youth won’t…

To Quit, Or Not to Quit? [Infographic]

To quit or not to quit, this is the question. We, humans, make decisions based on 2 directions: Either to MOVE AWAY from something we don’t want or to MOVE TOWARDS things we desire. When it comes to making a career decision, what is/are your trigger (s)? Love this post? Share to your friends and…

How “Good Girls” Can Speak Up for Themselves More

Good girls, speak up for yourself! Growing up, have you ever wonder why we need to adhere the social standards to be a “good girl” or “good boy”? For kids, “be good” usually means being obedient to authorities, peace-loving, having good manners etc. I recalled vividly a day in school when I was 15; It is the…

Are You In The Wrong Job? 3 Reflective Questions To Remove Your Job Frustration

  Are You In The Wrong Career, Or Simple Burnt Out? Job Frustration of the young, aspiring professionals Time flies. It’s graduation season again and when you see college students on the street, you feel like you are getting old faster than you think. Your colleges days seem like a nostalgia of the “good old days”. It…

Steve Jobs: “Everything Around You Was Built by People Not Smarter Than You.”

"Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use." ~Steve Jobs Very motivating right? When we are working our way up trying to make an impact on...

How to Use Linkedin as Your People Research Tool

How to Leverage Linkedin Research in Your Next Job Application Before applying for any job position, do you google the company and see if it fits your interest and competencies? Most people do. To stand out from the crowd, conducting an in-depth company research will strategically help take your Career Marketing to the next level. Let’s…

7 Real Thoughts Interviewers Would Never Tell You

A Day In Life of a Recruiter As job applicants, we are only familiar with one side of the story in recruitment. Have you ever wonder what recruiters are thinking? So, let imagine you were a professional in-house recruiter and your typical workday goes like this: “You have 10 vacancies on hand, and hiring managers…

Going to Work on Monday With These 3 Productivity Tricks

  Do you drag going to work on Monday mornings? Are you one of the walking zombies who feel tired all day long? Here are 3 simple tricks to boost your energy level and stay motivated: Here are 3 simple tricks to boost your energy level and stay motivated: Going to Work on Monday with…

Why Your First Job Doesn’t Have to be Your Dream Job

Get A First Job In Your Dream Career? Who wants to get a first job in a role you’ve been always dreaming about? That ONE DREAM JOB  which when you get it, you will be “happily ever after”?   Let me be upfront: I don’t believe such a job exists on earth.   Because just like every…

Job Search With NLP Mind Power: Secret Revealed

  When it comes to job search, have you ever wonder why getting job offers are so difficult, even though you are smart and talented? You have read tons of “hacks” on how to crack a job interview, but when you finally meet the interviewer in real, your anxiety gets in the way. Or you have downloaded many…

Be Who You Needed When You Were Younger

I was browsing through my Facebook Newsfeed the other day and this image, "Be who you needed when you were younger", stirred my heart in a profound way. This is exactly why I began my Career Coaching & Education journey back in 2013. (My Story) I was at a crossroad in my career development at 27. I've...

How to Answer “Tell Me About Your Weakness” In Job Interviews

“Tell Me About Your Weakness.” Recruiters are like Investigators, and they would love to know the REAL you. Asking “What are your weaknesses?” is a way for interviewers to find out if you are self-aware, and a proactive learner who makes improvement plans. So the Key Focus here is on Your Self-Management skills. That is,…

Tell Me About Yourself Interview Answer: Self Introduction Examples

Your Self Introduction is like a movie trailer- Make it short yet intriguing, so your audience wants more! Your answers to the “Tell me about yourself” question is a high-level description of who you are in less than 2 minutes.  It is YOUR STORY that sets the scenes that associate you with your positive qualities,…

You’ve got poor GPA. Now What?

We all know that as a student, GPA is the core metric to measure how much you’ve learnt academically throughout the 4 years. You might not be a great student, but hey, it doesn’t mean you can’t be an outstanding employee right? Well then, how are you going to explain this to your future employers?…

Networking Shortcuts for Freshers

When you approach the search for your first job, naturally people goes to the Job boards. Such as Career Builder, Glassdoor, Monster, Linkedin, or local job boards Or Mega-Search Engine e.g. Indeed, Simplyhired However, as you all know, the ATS(the Application Tracking System aka recruitmetn robots) tosses most people out electronically. If you blindly apply…

Your Gigs: Creatively Rewrite Resume Session Headings

Are You Participating In the Gig Economy? More and more people nowadays are diversifying their work portfolios. Whether it’s a hobby, a side hustle, or a passion project during a career break, there is a way to showcase that to your next employer. For example, many graduates got impressive extra-curricular activity achievements. They are definitely…

How to Follow Up With Interviewers Without Sounding Needy?

Recently I got questions from students on how should they approach your interview follow up when it has been 1-2 weeks after the last interview session. I hear you. The interview went well, and the hiring manager promised to get back to you as soon as they can. You’ve sent a simple and sweet thank-you…

Career Storybank: Your On-The-Go Prompter For Networking & Interviews

Have you ever wonder (and envy about) why some people are so charismatic and seem to have unlimited interesting stories to tell? Whether it is in networking sessions, parties, job interviews, or even new dates, great storytellers can effectively foster new friendships, build trust, deepen understanding and get buy-ins for their ideas. Having a personal…

3 Confidence Boosters on the Job Interviewing Day

Confidence Boosters job Interviewing How to Have Radiating Confidence In Job Interviews? Myth: The best person for the job gets the offer Reality: It is the person who performs the best in the interview gets the offer. Don’t you think it is quite ridiculous? I mean, an employer invested many resources finding the right candidate,…

Mindset Shift To Radically Transform Your Job Search

What if we all see ourselves as the CEO of our career? Mindset Shift In Your Job Search Can Make A Huge Difference! In the book “The Start-up of You”, Reid Hoffman, co-founder of Linkedin, introduced a concept that in this current age, to get ahead in your career progression, we have to think and…

1 Simple Trick to Transform Your Job Hunt Progress

Have you ever encountered this embarrassing situation? You’ve got a call to invite you for an interview; while feeling very excited, you forgot what that job was about… What’s worse, when you tried to revisit the job advertisement, the page has already expired! trick to transform your job hunt Your job hunt is indeed a…

An Introvert’s Guide to Job Interview: Before, During, After

Introverts’ Guide to Job Interview Introverts’ Guide to Job Interview Job Interviews have often seemed frightening, especially to introverts. As an introvert, the idea of opening up and sharing my thoughts with a total stranger is not very appealing. Let alone it’s a job interview that the other person has the power of making a…

Now I’ve Graduated. What’s Next?!

It’s that time of the year again – May, the graduation season! My social media newsfeeds are filled with happy faces in graduation gowns, and playful snapshots in classrooms and around campus. If you are one of them, big congratulations to you! Looking back, do you realise how much you have accomplished over the past…