Olina Qian

I am in CTI’s year long leadership program and I have a life long quest to pursue. I used to think that my quest is to empower women, since I’ve been in a very difficult situation that I don’t know where to ask for help when I really need support. Now I am out of the situation, so I wish I can give other women that support when they needed. It is something I can do, but somehow I feel it is not 100% resonate with me.

Then I continue to explore, I found that I can be a catalyst for Asian Executives to grow, change and transform. I received the best coaching education in this world, I have the personality of loving and caring. I am willing to give others 100% of myself to hold other people’s growth. But after I sit it for a while, I realized that it is something I can do and I am good at doing, but somehow it doesn’t resonate as well.

Recently I keep on asking myself: what do I really want. Love comes first. Yes, love is the answer to all the questions. We all need love in this world. But is the love I want is the same to the love others want? Love sounds so abstract that I don’t know how to build my quest on! But I know that I am walking down a path of finding something big.

Mmn, something big, what is really that? What is my heart longing for? I felt I am a little bit lost, so I reached out to my beautiful tribe remembers. After several conversations, Freedom, my No 1 value stands out, I feel that my life purpose is to bring freedom to the world while I set myself free. Freedom, such a beautiful word. What does freedom means for me? After I brainstorming with Daniel, here are several aspects of my version of freedom:

Physical Freedom: It means stay on healthy for me in one sense, it means that I can move my body freely when I want to. I can eat any food if I love to, I can go climb the highest mountain in the world and diving into the deepest sea in the world if I wish to. Physical freedom means no limitation of your body condition.

Financial Freedom: It means that I have enough money to live in a comfortable life style I love to. It means that I can say no to the job I don’t like and doing something I enjoying doing. It means that I can plan any vacation destination in the world without thinking about money. It means that I have ability to give my kids the best education in the world without any limitation. Oh, Financial freedom, my heart smile even when I think of it.

Mindness Freedom: Mindness freedom means be mindful about everything life offered, accept what comes to us and be grateful about the reality, yet make powerful choice to head to your future. I see lots of people are locked in their mind, have the wrong expectations and end up suffering with reality. You are what you think, but what you think will decide what you do and what do you will decide who you becoming. The current way I am doing it is always challenge my mind, is it true? Is it really true about what you think? Read Barren Katie’s ‘loving what is’ if you want to know more.

Spiritual Freedom: Spiritual freedom means embraces joy, peace and belief in every moment. It is what we feed to our soul. Our heart always knows what is the right and what is wrong. Spiritual freedom means not against to your gut and your soul. Be peaceful at every moment. The current way I am pursuing my spiritual freedom is to grow to the maximum of my potential and accept who I am, my own truth.

The list can go on and on. And the more I wrote about FREEDOM, the more I feel that my resonance level is getting higher. Maybe this is it, it is the truth I come to this world for, it is the purpose I am living in this world. Freedom, what a beautiful word, it reminds me about creative, about choice, about love, about ease, about free of expectation and it is about free of LIMITATION!

Ok, now I know my stake is FREEDOM. What is the impact I want to make? I want to bring more freedom to the world! I want people choose love instead of fear, I want everyone knows that they have choice. No matter how difficult the situation can be. I want everyone in this world to dream big and finding their truth of freedom!

Next, what is the path I can be on to preach ‘Freedom’ and bring more freedom to this world? Do I need to set myself totally free first before I help others? Or it is life long journey that I should go with all of you? I believe that when I bring more freedom to the world, I am also setting myself free. By how? I can write blog/books about freedom, I can coach people about freedom, I can run workshops about Freedom, I can create a meetup group about freedom, I can make a TED event about freedom. I can build a tribe about freedom, I can do lots of things, but what matters is, what is your version of freedom? What do you want more from this world to support you about your freedom?

If you ever wonder what positive changes you want to bring to your life, if you ever puzzled about getting more freedom in your world, If my version ofFREEDOM touches your heart today, can you send me an email to olina.qian@gmail.com, we can talk what we can do together? Again, this is not about what Olina wants, this is about you! Yes, you! By getting yourself more freedom, we bring more freedom to the world! Because, it matters! You matters!