Report: Satisfied life
Is it the 5, 000 euro salary? The perfect partner on the side?
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- Spirituality as personal fulfillment
- "I realized that my demands on me were mercilessly high!"
- Go your own way
- "When my mother became ill, I felt how precious life is"
- Believe in love
- Children as personal fulfillment
- My son is the most important task in my life
- Living sustainably
- "I have to do something so that our earth does not break any more"
- Find a true calling
- Friendship as a personal fulfillment
- Swim up
- "Just being a secretary did not satisfy me!"
- "Top Five Regrets Of The Dying"
"Meditation gives me the inner peace I've always been looking for" Elke, 41, mindfulness trainer / coach
"Inhale and take a deep breath! Do not go after your thoughts, let them pass ... That's right! Stay with your inner perception. Watch what you notice in your heart. What are you feeling? How are you? "Elke Gebauer introduces a client to the meditation technique of" body-centered work of the heart ". With a mixture of deep relaxation, body travel and intuitive verbal assistance by Elke, people hope to solve physical and emotional problems.
Spirituality as personal fulfillment
Elke would never have imagined that she would once be able to work as a meditation teacher: "I was always very rational, studied medicine, wanted to be a doctor, to be respected. But then I fell three times through the Biochemieklausur. I was desperate, feeling like a failure and even thinking of suicide! "
Elke sought advice from a psychotherapist. "It helped me to get rid of my destructive thoughts, but still I still did not know where I wanted to go, what I should do with my life." As Elke on TV shortly after an interview with the inventor of body-centered heart work, Safi Nidiaye, She found that so exciting that she booked a meditation with her.
"I realized that my demands on me were mercilessly high!"
"My first time was like a revelation! I felt that's just right for you. After only a few sessions, I found what I was looking for: deep inner peace. I realized that I had far too high demands on me. "Elke caught fire in such a way that she started training at Safi. "With that, I finally found my job: My desire is no longer to have the reputation of a doctor." For 14 years, she now helps other people - "so they get to inner peace, like me."
"I stopped running away from my goals" Annemarie, 27, student
"Imagine I have a math one, " says Annemarie, laughing. The young woman from Herne is 27 - and pushes back to school. "I'm doing my high school diploma, then I study psychology and open a small practice, " she explains passionately their future plans.
The late realization of her true calling came to Annemarie through a terrible experience: "Last year, my mother became ill, there were complications and, unexpectedly, her life was suddenly on the edge. In addition to her bed in the intensive care unit, I have thought a lot. How short life is. That you have to enjoy every moment. And that you should fill your days with things that give you pleasure. "
Go your own way
Annemarie, brooding, realized that her life was the opposite. "I had learned at the hotel and done various jobs, chambermaid, production assistant ... Since I was 23, I worked as a sales assistant, later I was even team leader. A safe job, good money - but no fun! "
Annemarie's Dreams of Youth looked quite different: "In the past, I often imagined being a psychologist. With glasses and smart practice, "she laughs. "The truth is, at the age of 17, I was too cowardly to go on with the school. I just did not dare to do the Abi. I've never expected anything! "But that's over now.
"When my mother became ill, I felt how precious life is"
Annemarie decided to finally take the path from which she had stopped dreaming ten years ago: "I threw everything down and started again. Finally, after so many years, I'm really happy. I believe in myself, write good grades and now know that I can do anything - not just my final exam! "
"My love has saved him!" Ninja, 27, internet entrepreneur
Actually, Ninja had already finished with the men. Too many disappointments and wrong guys lined their way. "Until 2005, when I met Michi. Love hit me like lightning, almost at first sight.
He was not a fake beauty, like the men who used to stand on top of me, but a rock in the surf, full of love, humor and warmth. "That Ninja was 14 years older than her and already had two daughters Purchase. In 2009 both made their luck perfect and got married. "Michi never disappointed me until he almost left me."
Believe in love
In April 2011, her husband suddenly collapsed: blood in the brain, emergency surgery, coma, little chance of survival. "I was devastated. But I talked to him when he was in a coma and sang to him. Although it tore my heart to see him like this. But I wanted to be with him, encourage him! "
Miraculously Michi got well again. "I believe until today that it was our love that gave him this power!"
"Being a mother is the job that really makes me happy!" Britt, 41, communications manager
"I used to live an exciting life: as managing director of an event agency, I got paid well, jetted around half the globe, met thrilling people, and joined chic galas." In 2006, Britt's wanted child, Luke, was born, but she continued working, often 60 Hours a week. Since she was a single parent on top of that, she hired a childminder for Luke. "Shortening does not work in this job. I also wanted to prove to myself that I can reconcile my child and career. "
Children as personal fulfillment
That went on until just before Luke's first birthday. "In fact, I did a full week of work without having an hour for him, " says Britt. Luke had to stay with the childminder for five days and nights. "When I was finally able to pick him up on Fridays, my panic suddenly struck me that I might have missed an important step in his development. That he calls the childminder 'Mama'. I was about to miss the childhood of my own son!
At that moment, I said, Now you're looking for a half-time job. "She found a job as a sales assistant, for whom she is totally over-qualified, exchanged a great salary for a measly one, the Cherokee for a small car and her independence against a household with a child, two dogs and three rabbits.
My son is the most important task in my life
"At lunchtime, I turn off my phone and take care of Luke for the rest of the day. We play football together, I read to him ... And I have no regrets. On the contrary. When I look at my son, I know he's the most important job I've ever had. "
"Fukushima opened my eyes!" Agnes, 30, winemaker and archaeologist
As a trained archeologist, Agnes buried in the earth - but not in Egypt, but in Alsheim, on the vineyard of her family. She already had her master's degree in her pocket, flew on research trips to Lebanon and lectured at the University of Cottbus, when the nuclear disaster in Fukushima last year brought her a rocket.
Living sustainably
"Shortly thereafter I was with a friend paddling in the Spreewald. In the middle of this dreamlike nature we talked about the nuclear accident. These terrible catastrophes reappeared in my mind. How fast that can happen to us! A huge uncertainty came over me. And the question: how do we live right? Do not humanity stop its downfall? "
Agnes felt that she did not want to close her eyes anymore: "I had to contribute, do something so that our earth does not break any more." For them, the solution was obvious: Since her parents run an organic winery, she decided to go there to start afresh, to live and work sustainably. "I had always helped on the farm during the holidays, I knew and liked the work. Only then did I not feel that as a perspective. "
"I have to do something so that our earth does not break any more"
With her decision to go home, she made a U-turn 180 degrees. "Maybe I first needed to flee to the city to be able to decide on rural life. Instead of students I am now standing on the vineyard - and live on and with nature, without exploiting them. "
"After my burnout, I realized that I was in the wrong life!" Claudia, 38, coach and business economist
She was a real workaholic: "I worked as a marketing specialist for large companies. Only the career counted, I had almost no time for me, "says Claudia. Until 2006, when the burnout came. Claudia had to take a medically prescribed break.
"Suddenly I had days to think and realized that I had only defined myself through the job. I had to admit that I had broken myself down just to get confirmation. "She thought about how to proceed and came to the crucial question: why do not you do what you care about?
Find a true calling
In her case, that was Feng Shui. "I decided to go through with this, started with the training, later came color and style advice and coaching. Today I am decelerating, have time for my friend, my dog and help people. Is there anything better? "
"Only a crisis showed me who I can really rely on" Naghi, 26, student
Since we are 13, we know each other, my girls and me. With Vero, Sandra, Anna, Steffi, Sinem and Dagi I went to parties, shopping - the classic clique. "
Until Naghi's mother contracted cancer three years ago. "I had to be strong against my two sisters, but I could really drop my girlfriends. They were there for me day and night, strengthening my back and not leaving me alone. "
Friendship as a personal fulfillment
Only then did Naghi realize how happy she is to have such companions. "They are my second family and are in every situation to me." Currently, the girls help her while learning for the university, because the native Iranian is in the middle of the Jura exam. "These great women helped me become the person I am!"
Even Naghi's friend Pepe understands when he has to play second fiddle: "If one has a problem, I'll be there for you right away!"
"Being able to afford two horses makes me proud" Veronika, 26, entrepreneur
Earning money has never been my biggest goal, I wanted to get on top of my job because I want to make a difference. "Today's young entrepreneur manages a good service for personnel development, job application and business mediation.
No career marked out for her: "After my apprenticeship as an office clerk, I switched to a headhunting agency. There, in the CVs of these successful decision-makers, I saw that some of them had to finish their high school diploma before it went up. Now they earned ten times more than me. That spurred me on. "
Swim up
Veronika picked up everything, first the Abi, then she studied business administration in the evening and completed an apprenticeship in business mediation. "The moment I had all the degrees in my pocket was a triumph for me! And the starting signal! "
In February 2009, she became self-employed and soon surpassed the sales forecasts from her business plan. "In the meantime I have even won major customers like Audi, " she says proudly.
"Just being a secretary did not satisfy me!"
From her profit Veronika makes two horses and bought with her friend a house near Munich. "Financial independence is freedom for me. And when I see the fruits of my work, it makes me so proud! "
"I live so that in the end I have nothing to regret" Bronnie Ware, 45, ex-nurse
Bronnie worked for eight years as a palliative care nurse in Australia and accompanied dying. In conversations, she collected what they most regretted, the "Top Five Regrets Of The Dying" (see below, as well as the title of her book). "That's how I saw my own life with new eyes - and realized that one should listen to his heart much more." Bronnie works today as a writer and musician and just got her first baby!
"Top Five Regrets Of The Dying"
1. "I wish I had the courage to live a life faithful to myself rather than one that others expected of me."
2. "I wish I had not worked so much."
3. "I wish I had the courage to show my feelings."
4. "I wish I had kept in touch with my friends."
5. "I wish I had made me happier."
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