How to create an impact from where you are

If you can unlock a way for people to continue finding their purpose, how much better would our society be!!

Well, the actual question is, “Do you live a life from a space of creating an impact, and if you do, what kind of impact are you creating? This time on The xMonks Drive, Vanessa Liu, The ‘velvet hammer’, joined us to explore what it means to live a life of impact. Here is a transcripted version of the conversation we had.

The Seed Of Impact

Gaurav: What impact can a woman have on the family, or in society?

Vanessa: The way I look at the role models that I had in my parents was the way you look at work. So if you have work, you should work hard. And this is how you develop a foundation, and then people can take you seriously. Especially for my mother, I never questioned whether or not I should be working when I was older, because my mom was working, my father was also working in the family businesses. But my mother was really driving a lot of the work that we were doing. Witnessing that, it was engraved in my heart that the expectation is that I’ll definitely be contributing in some way, by coming up with something of my own and doing something that’s purposeful outside of the additional responsibility, like raising a family, which is also so great.

These expectations one should never take for granted. They instill in us the importance of education, the importance of using that so that you can have the tools to build things that were part of the default script. “Okay, you are going to get the best education possible. And with that, you are going to figure out what it is that you are going to do. Alongside of finding the right person to settle down with and have a family.” So the notion of working and also living was ingrained very, very deeply.