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April 7 2019
I am a first-time father and a mid-career executive. It's a few nights before my son turns three months old. My son is my biggest fan and greatest motivation, and together we're recreating a different father-and-child relationship, the one I had always wanted. And then, my wife and I hear an unexpected scream in our bedroom. I run to our room:
"I held up my son. Foam started coming out of his mouth. He was choking, fighting for oxygen. His body colour changed to blue-ish purple. His limbs went motionless. He looked past me and closed his eyes. It was the longest 5 minutes of my life."
Growing up in Hong Kong and Australia, I was an introvert. A quiet boy who did not know how to commnicate, stand up for himself. I felt inferior because I fell short by societal expectations. I thought I was an underperformer at home.
Sports were my outlet. I spent a lot of time playing basketball. My dream was to play in the NBA. I gave up the dream and worked on my academic grades.
I don't know what I did that saved my son that night. After he suffocated in my arms for five minutes, I experienced waves of negative emotions. I felt like I failed. Every day, I asked myself the same existiential question but I did not know how to answer it.
- What is my purpose?
There was a void in me that I couldn't shake off. The life that I thought I knew. It came crushing down. I felt stuck.
After languishing for half a year, I remember saying to myself
one day, "I should just follow my heart."
I locked myself in my room and wrote about what happened. It was the beginning of my first 8,000 words.
I started to write and reflect daily on my negative thoughts. I made everything I do about 'making positivity viral'. Following my heart and clarity shall come later on was my hope.
Writing and podcasting help me become a curious
child again.
If you ever feel stuck in life, here's what I learned from my journey that guided me out of darkness.
1. Do what you love and you will be great at it.
2. Focus on becoming 1% better each day. Don't try to be perfect.
3. Help others to become better.
This is
Transformative Purpose.
Walking on an unconventional path may seem scary at first. We are trying to see the second step without taking the first.
"Getting unstuck is a reminder that we've outgrown the known path."
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- Founder at Transformative Purpose
- Mid-career professional with guilt turned award-winning motivational speaker, 3-time author and #4 Purpose podcast creator globally
- Amazon and Hong Kong bestselling author of Unstuck
- Speaker and corporate trainer at international organisations including Robert Walters, Bank of Singapore, IWG, LVMH, Kering & MTR.
- Serial internet entrepreneur and made $1 million internet revenue at age 22 and 200x gross profit at his first job using online marketing
- Over 18 years of leadership experience with a coaching background leading people and digitising businesses across corporates, consultancies and technology companies including Microsoft, Deloitte, EY, Korn Ferry Hay Group and lalamove in Asia Pacific.
- Aaron holds an MBA degree from Macquarie Graduate School of Management and a Bachelor of Commerce degree in marketing and management from University of New South Wales.
Aaron is a passionate father, he lives in Hong Kong with his wife and two young boys.
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