BALANCE AND PURPOSE 1st part

first of all. Happy 25 years to the occupational therapy department and U. S. D.

I mean what can I say? This is probably one of the invitation I could not say no to

and said this is very close to my heart.

Most of my life is spent in USD 10 years as an educator in 14 years as a learner.

So quite a bit of time spent in USD.

Mhm.

So if I may say I'm not complaining but

I might just say they have actually gave me quite

difficult topics to discuss today and it's just challenging

because I need to compress it in 30 minutes.

So bear with me I'll try my very best.

Good thing.

I'm I'm I actually love a good challenge.

So here I am today and I was actually just meant to provide

a personal story like sharing my own personal story about balance and purpose.

But I actually reflected that my life is they're very much in

progress and so I cannot really walk the talk with you.

So I'd rather just give you other perspective about balance and purpose.

I mean don't get me wrong subjectively I feel very happy.

I'm quite contented and fulfilling life.

When we talk about balance and purpose we equate that to

our career.

Are we where we are supposed to be.

Have we maximized our potential in that in that area of our life

in

to most of us to it is about satisfying

and happy

family life.

So

in that sense if that's our idea of balance and purpose.

I may say that yes I do have a growing career,

it gives me a good challenge and it also compensates well thankfully

and I also have a very happy family life,

very grateful to marry my husband and also have a

three year old daughter who are both my bestest friends.

That friendship is so precious

and in terms of taking the biggest timeline, like the biggest thing in my timeline,

I think I did that when I finished my PhD. So

I mean generally I am happy

but actually being happy. It's not the topic that I was supposed to talk about

and most importantly,

reflecting to all of these things are idea of balance and purpose.

Do we really need all of it? Like do we need to have a degree?

Do we need to be married?

Do we need to have kids?

Do we need to have

a rewarding job?

So will all of these things

equate to

a balance and purpose purposeful life.

And if subjectively I felt happy.

Does it mean objectively I have this balance and purpose?

I guess we will all find out as we discover more about this talk.

Okay,

okay,

so they're still very important elements to the stock, finding your balance

and finding your purpose.

When I moved to Australia in 2017,

I lost the vote,

I realized that most of my life I spent in usd as an

occupational therapist and a psychologist and

a professor that I became my identity

when I left my comfort zone

Philippines and Usd?

I felt so lost no balance, no anchor and definitely felt like I lost my purpose.

I came to Australia to start a new life with hubby,

you know my gosh, she was the most exciting place of my life, you know,

like the league,

all those killing factors during that time it was and I still feel the same,

like I still feel grateful that we have a chance to be together,

no regrets to this day, but when you have to restart from scratch, you know,

the career that you have built on

The past 11 years

just gone.

You know, the transition is actually very tough

then actually having the PhD

have stretched me in all possible direction and

I find myself committing to a lot of ongoing

projects back in the Philippines in different countries like

Malaysia and in Australia with my current work.

So that that extra qualification actually meant more responsibility.

It became overwhelming at one

and on top of that I gave birth,

I mean obviously that is another big milestone. It's very rewarding for me.

But now, because I have my own child,

I am even more torn on having to choose my priority in life.

So all the things I did mention earlier,

the career, the family life,

the job,

your extra qualification

that actually made the equation even more

complex when we talk about balance and purpose

and there is a real struggle to buying balance and

purpose amidst the beautiful chaos of all of these things.

So how do you find it?

That's the million dollar question If I'm going to be honest,

I am still in the process of full discovery

and I want to take you all through the journey today.

So hopefully it may also lead you to what may be searching for.

So the next thing is about monotony. This is

Probably the overarching theme of 2020 and 2021.

We get easily drawn into the daily monotony of things,

especially during the pandemic.

You wake up, follow your routine, whatever it looks like.

Then you go to bed again and sleep the next day will be the same thing.

Okay, You can add a little bit of online shopping,

You can also add a little bit of K pop or add a little bit of K.

Drama in that, but it's still quite monotonous, it's still quite repetitive

because there's no weekends to look forward to.

You have no goal to keep you going.

No travel to plan and get excited about

no catch up

and no actual going to window shopping,

an actual store and looking out at those things.

It's just different feeling,

isn't it compared to online shopping when you try it on and all of it.

Like you actually

you actually feel the picture of things and all of that.

That's all gone

then that went on for almost two years.

That was stuff.

But why why would a repetitive routine like

this considered harmful to our mental health?

That's another important reflection that we need to

to actually

look into?

So in the next few slides, what I'm going to show you is actually a short video

that pretty much describes this monotonous lifestyle.

So that's the 1st,

1st part of our Roberto. It's all about balance.

So hopefully you enjoyed this little video

and we'll discuss it after.

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