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How to Break Boundaries | Tim Yap | TEDxBritishSchoolManila


[Applause]
so perhaps I wouldn’t know how many of
you guys have been told that you
couldn’t do it yes there is he some
people okay nothing motivates me more
than being told that I can’t do it
hi I’m Tim yup and I’m here to share
with you guys how to break boundaries I
come from a very conservative Chinese
family and I was always told that no you
can’t do this you can’t do that
so for me to reach a point at this point
of my life where I am in different kinds
of industries like us such as my plight
the media I had to really fight for him
I had to really work hard for it I had
to believe in my vision to get there
it started also in a health club we
formed a club called embassy ten years
ago more than 10 years ago and at that
time there were only small bars and
restaurants in Vienna so we my partner’s
told each other that every generation
deserves its rightful dance floor its
rightful space where people can come
together artists and musicians and
business people to be able to share
ideas and to you know have a drink and
really be together
so before everything and that time a lot
of people said no that’s not possible it
can happen because it’s just not the way
things are being done there’s not enough
people Manila discover and to have a
rifle club so a lot of the people who
said no to us will be when we wrote them
the idea of this club are now regretting
it that they should have come and join
us at that time from embassy it became
encore it became flying and we
transferred to Resorts World that became
Republic and now we are here friendly
neighbor
we are the palace we’re just right
beside you guys and I
I’m familiar with some of you guys may
see some of you guys over there yes so
so this coffee we put together
it’s the biggest club that you have in
the Philippines right now and it’s
number 35 in in the world so if we put
this club and after that we always sit
down and talk like what can we do to
make it better it’s not just for the
Philippines but for the world so we
bring in all these foreign DJs we bring
in these acts we constantly do things to
innovate our business and our service
and one of those things that we did was
we realize that when it has become too
small and we have to be we have to
stretch out and do things outside of
Manila also so we open something we open
the hotel you will be the hotel in Bora
I called the tides hotel and it’s one of
our other businesses that just so that
we can be in another place that have a
change of scenery from there also some
of you guys might know that I am also in
the events industry that’s why I can’t
determine apologist I didn’t want to be
an event coordinator of an event
designer so I designed my own name I
called it the event ologist
so from being a one-man team of
conceptualizing planning and executing
all these different events for different
brands I now have a group called Yabba
ROTC events and this group of young
karate events brings together the best
event experts and we service the event
and PR needs of many of the top
companies and corporations and brands in
the Philippines and all over the world
okay so for all of us you know and we
would be makeup I saw this and a friend
of mine shared this with me I wanted to
share it with you every day when you
wake up these are the things that we
sort of have to balance all together you
know we have to you know
three body so that we can have the best
picture for oval TV and all these things
online we’re trying to balance all
portrayed to be the best person we can
be for ourselves and for the people we
love you know and it’s just
nerve-racking to put all these
one-in-one thoughts all together and be
who you’re meant to be but really that’s
goal let’s go to my tips all you need to
do really first thing that you have to
put in mind is you have to wake up dress
up and show up that’s the first thing
when you’re lazy to get up just say I
have to wake up and I have to try some
it was being way too dressed up for it
you’re ready for action and I remember
there was one time in my life where I
was I would wake up at 4 a.m. because
I’m finding if I would be running in the
polo field around me already but because
my 6:00 a.m. I had a radio show to do
and it was a radio show that was aired
from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. at 10:00 p.m.
that’s a holiday I had to do my radio
show from 6 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. and then
do my meetings within the whole day and
then I had had to take a TV show that
they have show every day it was aired on
GMA and it was with the air at midnight
and I would have some parties and then
do that thing until the next day I
almost died but I’m still alive lasted
me 7 months but the thing I learned from
that experience being able to wake up
dress up and show show for it has
changed me immensely in life and that’s
me waiting up to be my morning run there
that’s how I did it
yes ok so after that you know that you
are already there you already waken up
and so you have to create your
title you know because many times we
fall under societal norms and we have to
conform which is totally understandable
but I realize that the best thing to do
is to design something that fits
perfectly for you you know if you want
to be a designer if you want to be
excited it has to be specific to your
fit and that’s why you went earlier part
of my career I called myself an even
taller just because I didn’t want to be
called something else I wanted to put
more premium into the job that I was
doing and so when you’re there you have
to announce to the world that you’re
there you have to let them know that
you’re here and so that that’s me at the
regional launch of the product that we
were launching for Dyson in the in
Bangkok Thailand and that’s me using
their hair that’s actually a hair dryer
and I was using it as a microphone I had
to announce and here and also in your
journey and by finding how to spike your
career you always have to repack your
bags
how I repacking your bag is about thing
looking back into what work for house if
you have to travel light look inside
your bag and if you find both just like
a party they have to look at their bags
and see what you need and what you don’t
need and if you don’t need certain
things you have to be able to tell
yourself and I don’t eat this so you can
take it out and you don’t need it in
your life and you can move on and go
ahead with your journey because you know
it’s expensive to be charged with excess
baggage right so you are not travel
light that’s me traveling light actually
not so much stuff inside it’s it’s it’s
not really what sir it’s really not what
the size of the bag is but what you
bring
and from there you have to also tell
yourself that you have to be insistent
you have to be persistent and you have
to be consistent did you know when I was
a kid I was one of those guys that was
out that will be outside the club I was
giving away some of you are not yet
allowed any clubs I wasn’t allowed in
clubs then and so I was outside waiting
for people to come out and I was giving
them flyers for them to be able to go to
my parties right and I could see some
people would just throw the pliers I
would see somebody would keep them you
know so now every time I see no people
in a fire Sun sign for the real estate
project I really take it because I
remember that was me before you know and
now the people who did not only to go
inside the clubs I don’t allowed to get
to my clubs – it’s called revenge okay
but so from then on yes I remember
experience I was in Iceland just a week
ago and really we wanted to see the
Northern Lights and the first day we
were checked out and we were looking out
of the sky and we were riding up to the
north part aside from here driving to
the big guy or not nor myself trying to
pack your and waiting and looking and it
was there for three days the next you
date who just out there in the cold
about to die ok that’s a term a decision
but a super cold and waiting for it and
then our friends were saying it’s not
gonna show up you know we should just go
home
they was not there it’ll go it’s there
that I was closing my eyes talking to my
angels please show up please these two
outfits I know it’s gonna throw up and I
opened my eyes it showed up and this the
picture that resulted so you have to
really believe you know sometimes even
especially when people don’t believe you
have to
even yourself and what you see it what
you know you are going to see and the
only person who can answer that is
yourself you have to embrace diversity
and practice facility you know you won’t
be able to experience the world or break
boundaries if you stay in your room of
course there’s internet it’s worse than
if there’s no internet but if you just
stay in your room and be within your
little safety cubicle you have to go
outside your comfort zone and you know
be able to reach out and get to meet
more people get to experience life
that’s how it is so this is me
experiencing some divers need quite
quite diverse going out of my freaking
zone in a very dr. Bergman yes okay you
also have to learn how to evolve for me
the best thing to do is you should
always help date yourself you know when
you see your old self you tell yourself
how am I going to be the better version
of myself this year and the next you
have to look at yourself take a good
look at the mirror and see for yourself
how who you are and how you want to
change change is something that you have
to embrace within yourself and even if
we were afraid to do it it’s something
that we have to face in order to become
better like what I would see some
sometimes I don’t like sigh sometimes I
don’t keep up sometimes I don’t like
bigotry so you know that’s part of it
you know change from house it starts
from within but it can also go from
outside to inside you know so I like to
play
play with those you have to also do
things sometimes you have to do things
upside down we’re always given a set way
of doing things there’s always such a
manual that people expect us to follow
and sometimes you don’t go through the
front door you go to the back door or
you go to the window as long as you get
there
that’s what’s important and this is me
doing things upside down you know I was
getting a soft number for a friend on
his birthday sit there very figurative
and also you have to envision you have
to paint it till you make it when I was
a kid until now and this dream journal
and I put all my dreams and all my hopes
and desires I sketch a total I write
down things I am I am going to be like
this I don’t check this but what I want
to achieve within the sphere or within
my lifetime and some of it I could put
the book aside and then after that years
after I will see it again and it’s all
full of tricks I was able to do it but
sometimes you have to write it down I
remember one time I saw an advertisement
in the newspaper and they saw the page
and I go I have to be that one I want to
be this this I deserve to be this bad so
I cut out the newspaper and then I put
my face on in the garden I put it in
front of my bed and every day that’s my
eye that’s my hat in two months that was
me it became me my first time to see it
so you can of course you can apply it in
different parts of your life too and so
there I saw myself and it’s a wonderful
fairy you know you have to see it first
and it will happen things that you want
to achieve please do wanna go to things
you want to have all these things it
starts from you thinking that you can
have it and when stuff happens you have
to use it as fertilizer you know that
you can use that as stool put it on the
floor I think it’s good for nothing no
and actually enriches the floor
just the soil and it’s what the plant
will use for imported to grow right so
there are always bad days you know there
are always very very bad days there so
that’s me as the Donald during Halloween
I was trying to scare everyone so it
happens there are good days and there
are bad days you have to be able to deal
with it and not be scared that the bad
day will if you are because you have to
realize that you have so much to learn
and so much to grow from from these
not-so-good days a life mentor of mine
taught me this and I move in a creative
industry and sometimes people sort of
copying or imitating what would you do
more people would say they’re concerned
it’s a form of flattery but also it
could get to you and then go wide wide
early copying us you know it’s blatant
plagiarism what’s up with that and she
told me you know ten in a flock of
seagulls the one that’s in front has the
best view because you have the view of
the horizon the one in the second row
has a view of the but at the front row
right so you have to bear in mind and
you have to enjoy that you have that
front row view you have that I don’t
really do the horizon so you can pick
and choose which parts you want to call
her that goes for you with whatever
you’re doing in your life and now let’s
go to the actual secret the secret on
how to break the boundaries in your life
okay but for this one I want you guys to
like close your eyes close your eyes
right now please everybody please close
your eyes and think of that time when
people told you that you can’t do it
that you’re not smart enough you’re not
good enough you’re not you’re you’re
weak and it’s impossible for you to be
able to do this think of that person
listen to that voice that’s telling you
that you can’t do it
and put all that energy into a ball
right in front of you so think you can
hold it that you can hold this ball of
negative energy telling you that you
can’t do it and everybody in one two
three let’s break it and you can open
your eyes
yes do it guys do it break it
yes you can break it Oh big enough in so
I want you like to remember that energy
of this you have to release it out
because if you keep it in it’s gonna
hinder you from being able to do things
we have to take out Eradicator boys and
break it and remember this when you’re
about to hit your brakes
okay so there I hope you’re able to
learn a thing or two on breaking
boundaries we can all do it thank you
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