Life Designer with Jingyu Chen
Capturing once in a lifetime moment and each encounter is one of a kind and unique. Life designer is looking to genuine and meaningful human connection, and telling candid human stories. In each episode, I will interview an amazing talent coming from all around the world across all different industries. They are artists, creatives, professionals, entrepreneurs, slash everything, and they are all on their journey to pursue their mission with a passion. It's their story-telling about how they become their own life designers! Please feel free to visit my website to find more information: https://www.lifedesignerwithjingyuchen.com/
I am also running my solo podcast ‘Jing Lens’ -- my lifestyle diary . Here I share daily hustle and grind, small joys from my travel and hobbies, exercise routine, self-care practice, and reflection on my personal growth, etc., I consider Jing Lens as my dynamic diary to document and capture evolving and ( hopefully elevating) journey of my lifestyle. Lifestyle is a bit overkill buzzword today but I have always been drawn to this word, spending years and years searching and building my lifestyle. I guess I finally reach this self-validation point to feel may be able to to share some mindset and practice from an ordinary person’s life to provide one possible form of wholesome and joyful living.
Both podcasts are located in my website. My website is like my container where I put my heart and soul to curate . Please feel free to visit my website to check in both podcasts if you are interested. Thank you so much for listening to my podcasts!
Life Designer with Jingyu Chen
Conversation with Terry Ng about his Life-Searching Journey
It's a huge honor to get this interview with Terry Ng from HK.
Here are some key takeaways for today’s show: Terry shared his spiritual journey which coincides with ancient Chinese philosophy yin/yang. The Yin/Yang symbol is composed of the white and black sides, two opposite forces and characters. To apply this concept to understand humanity, Terry believes his life journey started with discovering the dark side of humanity. What matters is to acknowledge our own dark side as opposed to suppress it. Having consciously embraced two sides, we can put less focus and energy to address the dark site. When something happens, we can have a choice between the white/positive side and the dark /negative side. That means we should uphold our values and strengths while abandoning what goes against them. In Yin/Yang dynamic, everything manifests two opposite elements which should exist in harmony.
Terry also reiterates helping people and the community serves as an underlying drive and motive through his career. Working in a giant tech company, he found technology can be used in a wise way to improve the quality of elder’s life and to advance the education system. Although ups and downs occurred at work all the time, he was able to bounce back to continually work with the unshakable drive.
Even when we break down at work or life, it can be a signal or sign the universe sent it out, reminding us of taking a pose and taking a step back. Terry mentioned that mindfulness PRACTICE ( meditation, yoga, etc.,) helps us to focus on our inner voice and true feelings without self-judgment. When we are mindful about what’s going on around us and inside us, we will become less stressed and more capable of seeing the big picture of life and the new path ahead of us.
Terry got an eye of curiosity towards people and a spirit of adventure towards life. He traveled worldwide, truly enjoying opening himself up to different cultures and people where he found pure human connection and life joy. I guess that’s also why he could always embark on every new life journey fearlessly and passionately, even from a fresh start.
In the end, I want to say we are so easily affected and distracted by external noises and the environment. To seek happiness in our life, we need to embrace the complexity of humanity, shift focus to our own inner self, and treasure every little joy we encounter every day.
Thanks for listening to my podcast today. See you next time!