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Post That Sheet: This Is Why I Am Doing This.

Hi guys.

This is Jason, and I want to be real with you.

I want to share with you my journey and why I'm producing videos right now.

I feel for some strange reason the camera, kind of like steals your soul, so I'm never in front of the camera.

But now I'm going to share with you why I'm doing this.

And I think it's important for you to understand and get to know me.

So I'm going to do it in the form of some post-its, right?

Firstly, "Who?"

So who am I, right?

I'm a guy that's based in Singapore.

I’m married and I have 5 kids and their ages are 12, 10, 8, 5, and 2.

I'm also an entrepreneur.

And I really love doing business.

Since young, I knew that I wanted to do some kind of business.

And I've always been looking at the entrepreneurial life and the entrepreneurial mindset of what I should be doing - how do I create value?

How do I impact the world?

In my entrepreneurial journey, I've done 32 different businesses.

32.

I've been a professional will writer.

I've done financial advisory work.

I did investments, insurance.

I was a busker on the streets of Orchard Road.

I did dental software.

I was an award-winning logo designer.

I did many things, all inside here.

And I'll share with you more.

And now, I'm a coach.

So I coach, most of the time, I coach MNCs, I coach directors, general managers, C-level.

I enjoy coaching - it's Leadership Coaching, and it's Strengths Coaching.

So I'm a certified StrengthsFinder, or now CliftonStrengths coach.

I'm actually Southeast Asia's first certified coach.

Very passionate about Strengths, and I'm gonna go into that even more in the later videos.

So there you have it.

This is who am I in a really, really short, short introduction.

And I want to go on to the next one, which is "Why?" -

So that's it.

This is a short introduction of "Who am I?"

And I'm going to go to the next part, which is "What?"

What am I going to be talking about?

So since young, I've been fascinated with this thing called self-help.

I've always been in the section of self-help in the bookshops.

I'm always there trying to see how am I going to improve myself as a young child.

And I only actually, kind of read only those things, those that are helping me to improve myself.

What is success like?

How do I become better?

And it's all about self-help.

I also enjoy hacking things.

I love hacking things - trying to find the shortcut with the same quality.

How do I get the same performance but with shorter time, shorter resources?

I love hacking things, always hacking, always finding shortcuts.

I also really enjoy this whole idea of leadership.

How does a leader make the team great, while another leader with the same people, probably will make the team really bad, right?

So most of my time is spent on leadership, and coaching leaders, and coaching teams how to be better.

How to be better, for them, the leaders, how to be better leaders?

And I'm very curious and fascinated about this whole idea of leadership.

How just one person can change the course of your life, or the team member's life?

And I love talking about leadership.

So when it comes down to what I really talk about, it is this - I want to bring out the best in people.

And this is my life mission - always about bringing out the best in people.

How do I bring out the best in my team members?

How do I bring out the best in my leaders that I coach?

It's always about bringing out the best in people.

So that talks about the 'what' - what I really enjoy doing, what I really enjoy reading up on, researching on, what I geek out on.

Now, we're going to talk about the “How?"

How are we going to do this?

How am I going to do this journey with you?

So one thing that I really enjoy doing is watching videos.

I always watch videos, right?

I mean, in the car I'm watching the video, okay, I'm not watching it, I'm playing it, right?

But I'm watching YouTube all the time.

I've watched almost all the TED Talks there is, that interest me.

I'm constantly watching because for some strange reason, that medium of video really speaks to me - the way that the person communicates, the body language, the tonality, everything speaks to me.

And it's video.

One more reason why I'm doing video is because I really, don't really like to read.

Not really I can't read, but I don't like to read, right?

Since young, I kind of had dyslexia and really found it difficult to read.

And a lot of times, even my father was telling me just two weeks ago, he was sharing that: "Hey actually, you and your brother, you read the same thing but if I go back to the words that you forgot, you totally forgot about it."

And he kind of like shared with me this in front of my kids and my wife, and I'm like, "Oh, now you tell me."

So he thought I was weird because I can't really read that well.

And so maybe that's why, because I can't really read, I really enjoy going through the video format of learning things, of growing.

So what am I going to be talking about?

I'm going to be talking about my life.

Everything about my life, when it comes to giving value to you guys.

What is it about my life that I've learnt?

And how can I hack it in a way that's presented to you, and you can learn from it?

So I've gone through so much things in my life.

And one thing I really want is that other people are able to learn from the mistakes that I have, and to learn from the hacks that I had.

So if you are able to learn from my life, right, and some nuggets here and there, then I'm really happy.

Because you have found value in the journey that has brought me here.

And lastly, I'm still growing.

I'm growing in Leadership, I'm growing in Strengths, and I'm growing in this whole idea of even giving videos and sharing about it.

So it's really sharing about my journey, with you.

And along this journey, I want to grow together with you as I read, as I learn, as I go through experiences, as I coach leaders, as I coach teams.

I want to be able to share these things with you so that you are on my journey together with me.

So just the other day, one of my friends, Moses Largado, he was actually talking to me and asking me very difficult questions about, "So Jason, you're on this journey.

Why?"

And I want to be talking about this - Why am I on this journey?

And he asked really difficult questions, which I'm going to be sharing.

So he asked me this question about "Why do you want to be able to produce videos?"

And I thought really long about it.

And I realised that there was one main reason - It's to give.

I really want to give.

I really want to give my experiences, the insights that I have, and I want to give it to you guys.

And the reason why I want to give it to you guys is because I know that you can learn from it.

And I know that the way that I've gone through life, there are certain things that if I can give it to you, and you don't go through those mistakes, or you're able to succeed faster, that's going to be a 10 upon 10 for me.

And I was thinking about why I'm giving so much, and why can't I just give through the same workshops or coaching that I've been doing.

And when I think about this, I think about a very morbid part of my life, which is the death part.

 And if I die today, how many people would I have impacted in the future?

Zero.

 Because one of the things about impacting people is that they need to be able to find a way to get that, to get that value from you, even if you're gone.

So one thing that's very important to me, and why I'm doing these videos is this - Legacy.

I want to leave a legacy so that people will continue to grow, continue to learn, and continue to be the better versions of themselves, even when I'm gone.

And building a legacy is not only for myself.

It's for the people around me, for my children,

I want them to understand my thoughts as well.

I want the people that I coach to continue growing in a way that maybe if I'm not there, they can still learn from the videos that I'm producing right now.

So as we go on this journey together, one thing I really want you to know, is to get to know me.

Get to know me as a person, get to know me as a coach.

And if you comment on something, I guarantee you I will reply to your comment because I really want to interact with you guys.

And lastly, the main reason why I'm doing all these things is this - is to impact your life.

I want to be able to impact as many people as possible in my lifetime.

And I know that the format of writing might not suit me, the format of podcasting, maybe a little bit.

But I know that videos, because I am such a video person.

I really consume videos so much that I know that this is my medium.

And I want to be able to impact your life using this medium.

So when I look at all these things up on the board here, I want you to get to know me, I want you to know why I'm doing these things, and why I'm producing videos.

I believe that I'm creating value, and I want you to be able to have access to that.

So these are, this is a little bit about me - my life, why I do these things, what I'm doing, what I'm passionate about, and who I am.

And I want to invite you to be on this journey with me.

I want to invite you to learn with me, and to grow with me, as we become better versions of ourselves, and we grow from strength to strength.

So please leave a comment.

I want to hear from you guys.

What are you curious about?

Remember, I'll answer every comment personally, right?

And I want to know how I can impact your life in the most targeted way possible.

So if you leave a comment, I'm going to reply to it.

So I hope you follow me, and I'll see you in the next video.