Creative life - balanced leadership - meaningful connections

"Life isn't about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself" - Anonymous.

So reads the cover of a journal that changed my perspective. It was a gift from my team of over ten years ago, just months before I was supposed to embark on an exciting journey overseas. Instead, I spiralled into grief, depression and burnout, owing to a bewildering combination of a family crisis and professional stress, and put the journal on a shelf.

Fast forward to last year, when I experienced a major disappointment. This time, equipped with over a decade of learning, through trial and error, positive self-care, counselling, formal training, coaching and sheer determination, I approached my next steps differently:

I re-confirmed my values. I made a plan. And I stuck to it. I dug out this journal and began: "Somehow it has taken 10 years to get back to this - to this notebook, and to this thing of "creating myself".... I will use this book for notes, brainstorming, planning and reflecting about my next professional endeavours and creative projects. It's time to reinvent - recreate - myself and I'm going to have fun doing it."

I didn't find myself - I created a new approach to being myself. In this blog, I'll share what worked for me.

I wasn't lost, and neither are you.

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