to be inspring

Woke up pretty late today as it was a crazy New Year celebration. Didn't do much - reading & replying emails ;) Got myself a sandwich & cup noodle for brunch as I didn't feel like eating much.

Met up with Ken for dinner in Mongkok to catch up. It was a really good chat ;) One of the topics which we talked about was on how to be inspiring. This discussion pop up as Ken was planning to write something to inspire leadership.

So I was sharing with him my recent experience on this. Recently, I went back to my home LC to share about my @XP. Was given 45 minutes to share my 4-years @XP - was a great challenge! And after the sharing, I myself felt that I could have done it better; but surprisingly even the EBs came up to me to want to listen more and said that it was so inspiring. And I thought to myself, what did I say to make it inpsiring? Then I thought that probably it was the stories which I shared are the stories which has impacted me the most during my journey in AIESEC. Story of me experiencing snow. Story of me meeting young people from over 100 countries & territories. And lots more...

Sometimes, we take for granted what we went through in AIESEC. Take for example, he said that he was pretty excited to recognized the PAI when she visited the Hong Kong booth during the IC 2007 Global Village, and after which he took a photograph together with her. To me, this little story would already be an inspiring story - as he values it so much ;) For me, it would meeting my friends from other countries who have been to APLCPM 2004, Taiwan at IC 2005, India for the 2nd time. And what more, when these friends are also are on the same role as me in their country. Everyone has his/her own story to tell - you just need to pick the ones which you feel most connected & impacted with!

Sometimes, we do take for granted about the impact we have on others through in AIESEC. The very fact that Susie & Maggie were excited to meet me in Malaysia and was immediate to share it with their colleagues about me shows that even I myself didn't know the extend of my actions ;) What I did was to provide them an opportunity to go through an internship which I hope would be life changing for them as it was for me. What I didn't expect was how much it made an impact to their life.

At the end of the day, I would say that share whatever you feel is most important to you and when done with enthusiasm, the inspiring magic would somehow appear ;) Well, at least this has worked for me so far - hopefully it would also work for him as well...