โ๏ธ A PROJECT MANAGER CONSULTANT INFLUENCER PERSON WITH HER SENIOR STAKEHOLDER ๐
Today’s post is a bit different.
Today I brought my consultant origin story.
My cheat code.
My senior stakeholder.
This is my dad.
Captain Lim Khoy Hing.
๐ 80 years old
๐ฉ๏ธ Retired airline pilot
โ๏ธ Qualified lawyer
๐ Author of three books
๐จโ๐งโ๐ฆ Grandfather of five
๐ Still doing 8,000 steps daily
Let me give you some more numbers, because I need you to understand the scale of this person:
๐ซ 25,500 flying hours accumulated over 53 years in the skies
๐ That’s enough to fly to the moon and back approximately 28 times.
Read that: Twenty-eight. (Or 541 laps around the Earth.) ๐ตโ๐ซ
โ๏ธ He flew 27 different aircraft types – from a little Chipmunk in Yorkshire in 1967 all the way to the Boeing 777 and the Airbus A320, A330, and A340.
โ๏ธ Then, during COVID, when most of us were making sourdough and rewatching Netflix, he completed his Bar exams and was called to the Malaysian Bar – one day after his 75th birthday.
I didn’t get the flight hours.
I got the mindset that earned them. ๐ช๐ป
So here are my beauty tips of the day:
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๐ฌ๐ผ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐น๐บ ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐ถ๐บ๐ฝ๐ผ๐๐๐ถ๐ฏ๐น๐ฒ ๐๐ถ๐บ๐ฒ๐น๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ๐? ๐
Watch a man who has hand-flown a C130 Hercules through tropical turbulence without losing his packed lunch.
Your go-live weekend is not turbulence. ๐
It is a light breeze.
๐ฌ๐ผ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ ๐พ๐๐ถ๐ฒ๐ ๐ฎ๐๐๐ต๐ผ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ ๐ถ๐ป ๐ฎ ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ผ๐บ ๐ณ๐๐น๐น ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐๐ฎ๐ธ๐ฒ๐ต๐ผ๐น๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐?
Grow up listening to someone who spent 15 years flying government officials and dignitaries around Malaysia.
And never once lost his cool.
(Or his passengers) ๐
๐ฌ๐ผ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฝ ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐น๐ถ๐ฒ๐ณ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐ต๐๐บ๐ฎ๐ป๐ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ฏ๐น๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐น๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ป๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ฎ๐ฏ๐๐ผ๐น๐๐๐ฒ๐น๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐๐๐ต๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ฎ๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ ๐ฎ๐ด๐ฒ?
Just know that somewhere in the mid-1990s, while still actively flying wide-bodied jets, my father was quietly studying for a correspondance law degree through the University of London.
As a backup.
*As a backup.* ๐ถ
He wrote the original project charter for what consulting excellence actually looks like.
Thanks Dad. โค๏ธ
For the genes.
The stories.
The insane example of work ethic.
And for showing me that a lifetime doing something with 100% commitment is what #mastery actually looks like.
โ๏ธ askcaptainlim dot com – go read the man’s work. โ๏ธ
A Pilot’s Story: A Lifetime in the Skies: Insights and Stories on Flying is out now at your nearest Amazon store ๐ช
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