Funnily enough, online states an anniversary of 10 years is also known as a tin anniversary but you don’t have to buy me tin presents cause I’m not married (yet)
And as much as I will like to say its my corporate anniversary, it isn’t either!
Although to be fair, it will be my corporate 10 years anniversary in a few months time
But no, I think this is something far more important and that’s why I want to share about it
What’s more important than celebrating my business anniversary?
Well, I think it is a good idea to celebrate the time you found your purpose 🙂
Think about it
Your business can only prosper and do well when you have a well-formed purpose
You might also call it your life purpose
Although some might argue that you don’t need a purpose to do business, maybe you just want to make money
Hey, that can be a purpose too
However, if your business stands on top of your purpose in life
Well, isn’t it a good idea to celebrate finding it?
Maybe you might even want to realign with it
Reconnect with it
Let it spark and ignite something in you again
For old times sake
Or even a realignment
Of course, you might have also tweaked your purpose along the way
To greater things
With new knowledge and inspiration
Then my friend, I think it makes sense to reconnect with your original purpose
Because who knows, maybe something else might spark too
And if you are ok with it, read on to find out how I found my purpose on this day 10 years ago
10 Years Ago…
Damn I was only 26 at that time hahahaha
I had already done my Basic NLP Practitioner course and at that time, it was to help myself
I didn’t realize yet but I was suffering from PTSD, depression, and anxiety for years
Learning NLP was for myself, to heal myself
I also did the Master NLP Practitioner course to further enhance my learnings, to better help myself
It was only after this particular event did I also take the Conversational Hypnotherapy course
Yes, I learnt so much just for one purpose – to heal myself
And after I recovered, I thought it was pretty useful
However at that time, I was only helping a few friends
Buy me a meal and I’ll do a technique to help you in one of your issues
That was the deal at that time
I mean, I wasn’t planning on doing this full time originally
(Look at where I am 10 years later LOLLOL)
I just wanted to help my friends with this information after I have helped myself
So anyway, it was either 3rd or 4th of November that year
When my mom injured her wrist at NTUC
My mom is short and she was in the supermarket reaching up for some detergent
However, it was really heavy and due to the angle, there was a “snap” sound at her wrist and her arm started swelling
And when I say her arm was swollen, I mean it was really swollen
Her entire hand all the way to the elbow had swollen up!
However, she didn’t want to see a doctor
Be it Western doctor or TCM, she felt she can handle it and it will resolve on its own
Obviously it didn’t
I suspected it was something like a torn wrist ligament
And we kept persuading her to see a doctor but to no avail
She was in pain, she lost strength in her right arm, and the swelling didn’t go away
I also suggested to her some hypnosis for pain relief but she refused as well
Considering that we all thought hypnosis was black devil magic (a misconception even I myself had at one point) I can understand her refusal
A couple days later, on 7th November, my youngest brother was enlisted into National Service
So all of us are now in Pulau Tekong and my mum, my 2nd brother and myself are having the army camp tour
On the bus, I was sitting beside my mum and I saw her rubbing her wrist in pain...
And I said to her, that we will get off the bus in 5 – 10 minutes, and in that time, I can help her reduce the pain, and might even potentially heal her arm
It was an NLP technique but since we all need to go into hypnosis to do it regardless, I just call it hypnosis then
She reluctantly agreed and I started my hypnosis on her
True enough, we ended the hypnosis in that given time, just before the bus stopped at the destination
And continued the tour
Finally, we met my youngest brother again, who had collected his army enlistment stuff and we had a final meal together
Before we ate though, I looked back at my mom’s arm
It was healed!
I knew my brother was worried since it had been days with no obvious change
So I told him to look and see it is healed
Everyone was shocked to see that the swelling had gone, my mom couldn’t feel any pain remaining
At that time though, perhaps about 90% of strength had returned to her too
And on this day, this particular event, got me thinking
I’ve got an incredibly unique set of skills
And if I can heal my mom’s physical injury just like that…
What else can I heal?
Who else can I help?
This planted the seed, my purpose maybe
And yea, it has been 10 years since then!
In fact, it ain’t easy to be on this journey
Facing several challenges, from dealing with a few such clients, to getting hacked so often
Sometimes I feel like giving up and just end this hypnotherapy journey you know?
However, I reflect on the people I’ve helped
And how all this started because of my mom
That realignment has allowed me to stay this far so long
So thank you mommy~
And thank you for reading up to here!
If there is any message, just consider celebrating your finding of a purpose
It’ll probably help you through your endeavors, hardships, and setbacks
And if you haven’t figured it out, yes, do find your purpose
Oh and if you see my mom, say hi 🙂
