Ladies and Gentlemen,
It is a Common Mistake that we spend so much time focusing on building relationships with other people in order to achieve Success, but forgetting to foster the most important relationship of all, which is the relationship with our own self.
At this point you might ask, what is James Oh talking about?
Just like some of you, perhaps, though I'm with myself 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, however, I know very little about my own self until I was transformed by my own soul searching journey couple of years ago.
Prior to this, I must admit that I am just like majority of people who are so consumed and caught up in their own lives that they've forgotten who they truly are. When someone asks me to introduce myself, I normally respond by telling him what I do or where I live. These are certainly important aspects of my life, but they do not truly reflect me.
I often identify myself with only my roles, my word or my career that I often lose track of myself. I do not know whether you have discovered your true self or not? At that time I forgot who I wanted to be, who I truly dreamt of becoming, what I love and value. In effect, I've forgotten my "self."
I have buried my authentic self so as to please other people, or to look good AND to be socially acceptable. To me, the effort to maintain this image not only requires too much energy, yet it is both draining and self-defeating.
It took me lots of courage and time to step out of the scripted life I've been living and to embark on my journey to search for who I am really in the depth of my being. I slowly peel away everything that is not essential and discover my authentic identity. I reclaimed the person the Creator truly wants of me and I find the journey very fulfilling and truly free. With the help from God I am being transformed my new self which is actually my true self rediscovered. Without believing in God, I would not be able to do it by my own ability.
I remember what's most important in my life - I live for a specific purpose and love to live a meaningful life. Remember my hopes and dreams. Discover or rediscover my deepest yearnings. In order to do this, I embarked on a psychological search-and-rescue mission or soul searching journey to comb back through my life and recover my joy, wisdom, passion, enthusiasm, self-confidence, vitality - the threads of my true self that I had lost along the way.
I took my courage, commitment and perseverance to craft the life I love, most of which I have now. I share this with you with the objective that you too will make the call now to be your authentic self. I am now persistently connecting with my authentic self and reclaiming my true joys and passions that made me able to share with you all these while.
Since then I never regret and am able to do and achieve much more with less. That's something I would never have thought off and which contradicted my initial belief. I also realise that I am able to do something what I would never have thought I could do. Amazingly awesome.
Ladies and Gentlemen, what I share now are something real and deeply inside me that would not be revealed unless the person is being transformed. As such, I invite you to take up my challenge to begin your soul searching journey soonest possible.
