Mindfulness trainer “IN-ME”,
NLP trainer IN – NLP (Germany),
IANLP (Switzerland), SANLP (Serbia), Professional Coach ICI Berlin, Wing wave® Coach ISO Certified, Neuro-linguistic coach, Practitioner of Quantum Harmonization, Autogenic Training,
A katathym-imaginative approach to the unconscious, Bars and MTVSS techniques.
Usually when we get a job and work in a big successful foreign company or bank and we are young, we think that that’s it, that we have fulfilled all expectations and made our dream come true. We have a good salary, we work with educated colleagues, help clients achieve their desires and feel useful personally and socially.
However, what would happen if at some point we realize that it is, in fact, not exactly the right job for us? Yes, it looks wonderful from the outside, and formally too, people even envy you, however you fundamentally feel tired and exhausted, because your soul yearns for something finer, more beautiful and more subtle. It feels that it can, and should, give that to others and to yourself.
And so, that moment in time happens, when after 10 years of working like a dog, exhausting myself to the limit (as if my life was hanging on a thread), time spent in spasms, fear, stress, in a rush, under constant pressure by superiors and clients in order to satisfy all of their demands and with a lot of responsibilities at home, around the children and the husband, at one point, I realize and catch myself doing a job that, in fact, is not for me. I worked only to survive, at least that’s how it felt, though, now that I look back, I would have survived even if I hadn’t done all that. Years and years of suffering, often working in inhumane conditions, going to work with an aching stomach and with the question of “should I get up or give up”, though I was brought up never to give up.
Until one day I felt that I had enough of everything. I became aware that I would remain trapped and increasingly dissatisfied there if I didn’t do something myself.
In addition to all that, as usually happens, I was constantly sick, going from one doctor’s appointment to another because of various symptoms, ranging from real diseases to various pains in the stomach, spine, skin problems, nervousness, even arrhythmia and rapid heartbeat, the so-called manager’s disease… When I look back now, a lot of it was psychosomatic. My medical record was extensive, and medical histories long. I felt like a chronic patient whose days of life were numbered. I was in great pain and suffering, which I became more and more aware of. Of course, my condition also affected my relationship with my loved ones, without me being very aware that it was in fact me who allowed the condition to develop.
At the time, I bought and loved reading the only useful magazine to me with advice on the path of self-conscious development and growth. In it, I learned many things, for example that a person develops and grows throughout his life and that development does not stop when he graduates from university ☺, in fact it is only the beginning of learning, and success means different things to different people, for some it is money, for others a love partner, children and a family, for someone else happiness is a successful business. I learned that hard work does not always amount to a good outcome in life and personal satisfaction, that there are people who have knowledge and skills that they can use to provide us with support and help in challenging situations in life, that balance in all areas is important for us to feel good and that it is possible to accomplish it, and thereby find our purpose, what our soul wants and seeks, and find our inner peace. Scrolling like that, I read an article by the wife of a doctor and coach with many years of experience. When I saw her picture I felt a call and intuitively knew that she was the right person for me at the moment. The next day I already called her and that’s how my travels started. After a couple of sessions on the topic of changing jobs, I felt much better and felt at peace after a long time.
Changes started to happen after just a month, and significant changes at work happened in a couple of months. After almost 10 years of working the same job, I was transferred to a better position, however, there were indications that I would be in the company’s redundancy program, which is exactly what happened. I was surprised to be in the program after years of commitment and dedicated, self-sacrificing work. However, it soon turned out that they did me a favor and that everything happens for a good reason, as the saying goes: “One door closes and another one opens.” A big turnaround happened. At the same time, while I was leaving the job, I was invited to another job that I could only have dreamt of before, which I accepted, and during the next month I was employed at both companies at the same time. I got a better salary, the job I wanted at the time, it was more pleasant, I was in good company and in a pleasant environment. It was as my colleague in my colleague’s words: “cinematically unreal.”☺
I realized that it did not happen by chance, but as a result of working on myself with the help and support of the person I chose for myself, to whom I was now even more grateful. Yes, miracles do happen, but only with our permission and our own action and awareness of what is holding us back and blocking us from living better and being more satisfied with ourselves. While I was blaming others for my dissatisfaction, the boss, the company, the country and the family, I felt very bad and felt that I was spinning like a hamster in a circle indefinitely. Only when I took my life in my own hands did I become content and breeze through safely and into my new future story. It’s good to know that every person is the director of their own life and is responsible for what they do or don’t do in it. Miracles don’t happen by themselves, we create them consciously. We choose whether we create our own miracles or are just part of the miraculous story of other people who dared to live it.
Then a new path opened up for me. I wanted to learn about communication techniques, ways of working on myself and others, about how our brain works and what the prerequisites for a successful and happy life are. I set out on a path of no return, a path of falling and getting up, a path of achieving mastery. Because a master is not a person who is perfect and never makes mistakes, a master is one who has failed more times than the student has tried.
Since then, I have chosen to consciously create my own miracles and build my life, enjoying every step along the way and taking it in stride.
And so, when you think about it, ask yourself how you’d like to join me on this life journey, with me to support you on the path of creating your own miracles in life, your own beautiful memories and your very own story…
With faith, gratitude and love in my heart, I invite you to live each day as a small miracle, each month and each miraculous year as an even bigger miracle, and finally to live an exciting, fantastic and miraculous life.
Andrijana