A note from Chi Chi

I grew up in Taiwan being told my hair was too curly, my teeth too big, my lips too full. For years I pushed myself to fit a mould that was never made for me. I worked hard. I tried harder. But willpower alone is exhausting. It runs out.

It was not until I moved to Australia alone at 19 and began discovering different cultures that everything shifted. I realised beauty was not a universal truth. It was a story someone else told me. And when I let go of that story, something unexpected happened. I stopped forcing myself forward and started being pulled forward. That pull came from purpose. And purpose gives you a kind of energy that no amount of willpower ever could. You wake up with a reason. Decisions become easier. Hard days become easier. Everything feels like it is moving in the same direction because it is.

Purpose does not come from outside. It has always been inside you. These three questions are the beginning of finding it. I know because they are exactly how I found mine, and I wrote about it in my book.