I am certain about this because I was on this journey myself.

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Before I started Shan Living, I had spent more than two decades in the corporate world, specifically in advertising sales which is undeniably one of the fastest and most stressful industries. I know firsthand the impact of job burnout and employee dissatisfaction, which can lead to high attrition rates resulting in work overload and hasty hiring - an endless vicious cycle which can cost a company dearly.

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Being a leader only made it more challenging to maintain my composure and lead my team to success while managing my own personal struggles with stress and anxiety.

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Towards the mid-point of my career, I realised that I needed to make some changes not just for my own wellbeing but also for my family that I love deeply. 

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As I began to reflect, it dawned on me that the real challenge wasn't the business, skyrocketing sales targets, or people issues. It was my own emotional capacity. If I had the mastery of emotional resilience, I would be able to handle those tough emotions much better and emerge stronger.

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For example, I could have been more aware of my emotional reactions and not taken things so personally. I could have recognised the triggers of my frustration when I fail to achieve or when I hear about biased treatment, unethical behaviour, witness incompetencies or lack of accountability in the workplace. Rather than avoiding those overwhelming feelings, I could have developed emotional intelligence to articulate and express my emotions in a healthy way and establish better communication.

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If I had been more emotionally empowered, I could have owned my emotions and established a better relationship with those tough emotions of frustration, guilt, anxiety, fear, and insecurity. Instead of letting those emotions accumulate and manifest, I could have done something about them to restore my emotional balance.

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By realising these underlying emotional drivers were the real culprits behind my work stress and growth stagnation, I became determined to explore how I can become a better master of my own emotions instead of being hindered by them. 

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Thus, I began my long and winding journey into self-discovery and emotional mastery. From mindfulness meditation, new-age energy works, astrological psychology and finally becoming a certified Emotion Code practitioner, I found myself now, riding the waves of my emotions rather than against them. 

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In 2019, I reached a turning point. Having seen the radical transformation in me through all these self-development works, I decided to take a leap of faith and follow my passion to help others, by showing them how they can, too, heal their emotions and become empowered again. That was how Shan Living was born.