Why I stopped writing in LinkedIn
Joy Abdullah
Marketing & Content Strategy Consultant | I help professional service business owners with marketing strategies that create consistent growth by building relationships which grow communities |Founder- Humanizing Business
I am back here writing exactly one year to date from my last article.
Why did I stop writing?
To be honest, at the end of 2016 my brains were fried!
This time last year I was asking myself some pretty hard questions that had to do with finding and acknowledging my personal purpose. And answers were not readily coming.
I decided to take a break from writing here and before I realised 2017 had passed!
Looking at the date this morning I decided it’s time to be back on here.
My writing hiatus has given me five key learnings which I truly value. I’m sharing them here and hope it will also help you:
1. Purpose
Every human being has a purpose in life. That’s my belief. Some find that purpose early in life and many, like me, go through life’s experiences till much later in life there is realisation. Finding, understanding and acting upon one’s purpose provides the platform or environment to share one’s experiences as stories for others to learn from. Purpose provides you the answer to the question—what’s in it for me—in sharing your knowledge.
2. Gaining knowledge
Learning does not stop when one finishes academic qualifications. Learning is life-long and from all sorts of sources. For me I finally followed my heart down the avenue it was long telling me to go. In the course of my search, reading, meeting people, over this year I learnt new points of views and methodologies in the areas of leadership, strategy, culture, communication. Most importantly I learnt about impact to society and about the importance of employees in strategy execution and how culture can make it or break it.
3. Putting it in practice and working out of my comfort zone
In the second half of the year I got an opportunity to be part of an advisory group on leadership which provided some awesome knowledge and interactions. Working virtually, across time-zones with different people, I learnt the value in sharing and giving one’s expertise and in seeing the creation of a beautiful service product (more on this in Jan 2018).
4.Time management
I started valuing my time more. Managing a day job and working on my passion heightened my need of really being mindful with spending time both at home and at work. It helped the quality of interactions professionally and personally.
5. Asking for help
There are times (even now) when it all feels and gets a bit overwhelming. I learnt to stop trying to be a superman and ask for help. Ask and ye shall receive! My heartfelt thanks to my project group who willingly and generously shared their learnings and experiences in order to help me manage the disjoint I was feeling between what I want to do and what I was doing at work.
My thanks to Ross, Subi, Puja , Wendy Woolfork, Dr. Vanditaa Dar, Yuva, and Anirudh for indulging me and helping me have these learnings.
Wishing all a very Happy New Year.
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Joy Abdullah is a senior marketing leader who brings a proven ability in developing business solutions that enable organizations to create financial value through brand experience.
A British national born in the UK, raised in India, and settled in Malaysia he was recognized as one of ‘Malaysia’s 10 Most Engaged Marketing Folks on LinkedIn’ in 2015.
He writes, consults, trains and speaks on brand experience value in an Asian perspective.
?Connect with Joy on:
1. Linked In
2. Twitter @JoyAbdullah
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7 年I learned about Life-Long learning from one of my early bosses and he calls working for his then start up company the life University of hard knocks. Where we learn and grow from the works. And learn a lot i did, only to realise later in life what things i did then build my experiences up for later unknown.
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7 年My reason for not writing at all. Plain just too lazy, Hahaha. Commenting seems so much easier for me - spontaneous, free expression with little need to care about vulnerabilities, and little necessity to 'defend' my line of thoughts (as compared with writing a piece). Technical niche writing I am okay, but unfortunately, that principally to me, must be paid work. Hehehe. Evidence-based and practice-based writing just need too much validated research work (best done possibly few years down the road, as a 'pay it forward' initiative, and when able to get my priorities right). As for now, just too disorganized. ??????.
I help people to be the best version of themselves, both in business and in their personal growth. I talk about #selfleadership #personaldevevopment #positivemindset #successmindset
7 年A good insight Joy, finding ones purpose can be a challenge sometimes. I think yours is getting cleared by the minute. Good to be connected with you and the group
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7 年In the event you need any additional encouragement... :-)
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7 年We missed you so I am glad to see your thought provoking insight back on Linked . Always glad to share the journey with you