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Welcome, everyone.
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Let's start by wishing you a very happy new year.
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I hope you got some time to rest, recharge.
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Rejoice.
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Spend some time with your family
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yourself and just enjoyed the holiday season that we had.
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It's funny.
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Before I decided to take the time off
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completely off, I didn't force anything.
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I didn't go in social media.
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I mean, I did go, but I didn't interact.
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I just was in and out quickly.
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You know, old habits die harder,
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going / being on social media platforms every day.
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And, you know, for multiple hours,
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it was very hard to put the phone down and not look.
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So I did.
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I would say that I did look around,
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but I didn't interact, I just kept it minimal
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unless it was important.
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I just didn't have any social interaction.
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I tried to limit my time there, and
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I focused my time with my family
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doing the chores, whatever was needed
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and just stayed home, you know, out of doing the work.
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So I hope
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you got some time off, too, and you, you know,
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were able to at least do some
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rest and recovery and reflect on
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2021, honor your wins
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all, honor what 2021 brought to your place before
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you started planning it and get it out for 2022 already.
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One of my mentors, Penny Ooi, who is a brilliant leader,
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brilliant, brilliant person, really caring, loving
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person it's the person you would want to be your leader.
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She used to wish us a Happy New Year by saying
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Happy New Year and happy new you.
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And that was something she would say
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and do every year.
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And what she meant by that was that, you know,
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in her ways, she was telling us that.
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If only you create something new in your life,
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like if only there is something new in your life,
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in your day, in your months, in your quarters;
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then only you have a new year.
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Otherwise it's just a repeat right.
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It's just
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repeat of 2021 into 2022 for the majority of the part.
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If there is nothing new like think of it,
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if you're doing the same exact things that you did last year
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this year, how can you expect growth, right?
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You have to do certain things even, you know,
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exercising routine everyday muscles.
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If you're doing the same exact set, same exact exercise
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after a while, it stops,
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it stops working
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or it stops giving the results you want.
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Right.
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So you want to bring in change and it is important
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in bringing something new gives you, you know, aliveness.
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It feels like life that there is something new happening.
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It gives you the excitement that there is something
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new happening.
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So what my mentor meant
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when she said, Happy new you.
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She wanted us to create something new in our life.
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You know,
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not only just in our
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businesses, in our work, but in our life.
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She wanted us to
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explore things, try something new, be it,
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you know, new food, new recipes or meeting new people,
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just adding things that give joy to our life.
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And that would, you know,
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mean that
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there is actually a new year, otherwise there's just numbers
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changing right,
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as I was thinking of sharing a message for the new year.
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I was reminded of the movie, the bucket list.
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I'm not sure if you've have seen it or not.
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If you have not.
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You should really watch it.
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It's really
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amazing movie was,
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I think it was released in 2017.
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Amazing amazing work by Jack
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Nicholson and Morgan Freeman in the movie.
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Really
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soul touching movie, I would say.
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So in the movie, Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman,
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when they are sitting on the pyramids.
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Morgan Freeman tells about the Egyptian philosophy
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when somebody dies and before they could enter
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the gates of heaven, they ask two questions
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Did you receive joy in your life?
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The second,
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did you give joy out to the people in your life,
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right?
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And I wish you this new year.
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I hope I wish you that you receive
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joy in everything you do in your life.
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Whatever you touch upon, whatever work you do,
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I wish you that you do it with joy.
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You would do it with
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a sense of aliveness to that work not just it
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being some mundane routine that you do with your day,
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but add and find a way to enjoy it
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because that's what will give your work.
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the meaning.
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If you cannot
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by any means have joy with you at work.
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Maybe it's time to change that.
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Maybe it's time to see what else can you do with
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your life that can bring you joy so that work does not?
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You know, becomes the work at
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work becomes the joy of work, becomes the play.
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So that's the first thing and the second thing I wish
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was that whoever you come in touch with, whoever you touch,
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you give them joy, you are able to bring joy to their lives.
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Right.
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Whether it's people
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at your work, home, friends, family, strangers
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that wherever you go and you become this
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light of joy that when people see you, they receive joy?
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And I know it's a hard thing, but that's one thing that I
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wish you all and that I wish myself
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that I'm able to do that when I meet somebody
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what I interact with somebody that my presence
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becomes the reason they are able to get some joy.
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And that's the big thing. It's not a small action.
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It's not something that can happen overnight, but
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I think that's what gives meaning to our lives.
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And that's something that I want to strive for in 2022.
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So as I close this first episode of the show,
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I just want to wish you all really happy new year ahead.
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I wish you joy. I wish you bring joy.
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All right.
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I hope you enjoy the show as much as I did
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and got some valuable nuggets out of it.
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If you liked it,
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So thank you and see you around.
