This quest came at the right timing for me. I resigned from my 22 years job end of February, I was supposed to resign 2019 at the age of 45 as planned in 2009 when I turned 35. I made a request to God Almighty that when I reach the age of 45( 10 years from 2009) I need to resign and do what I love, follow my passion. I came to realize that it is true that what we bound on earth is bound in heaven. God truly listens to our prayers and grant us the desires of our heart. I was a Home Loan Collections Manager from 2008 and Payments Manger from 2019 to end of February 2021.
All was well in my role as a collections manager running the inbound contact center, my team was thriving and some of them promoted to leadership roles. My passion was around growing and developing people, through coaching ( work related and personal, counselling where I noticed negative behavior or tension caused by changes within the business strategy or personal reason. I thrived in the Inbound team because my role was to make sure we offer superior client service to our internal and external client. I needed to make sure my main clients, which was my team were motivated and inspired to serve our clients. One of my best qualities was seeing potential and believing in the talent that surrounded me, at times more than they believed in themselves.
I was asked to move to legal collections and start a new legal collections outbound team. This role required a more analytical and strategic person, these were not my strongest qualities. However I had a very supportive boss who believed I can master this role if I gave myself a chance to learn. However I could sense deep in my soul that I was in the wrong environment, it felt like I was a misplaced star. My performance dropped from excellence to average. I new then that my time in the Corporate world was coming to an end. I began to invest in myself by enrolling at the University (BA Health Sciences and Social Services) in 2017. I could not complete this course due to work pressure, I was reporting to a new manager, who was autocratic. At first I was liked her leadership style as she shared information freely and she was patient. She moved to a payments role which was new in the collections space. T o my horror, the portfolio was given to a new H.O.D who was a Narcissistic Boss from September 2018 to September 2019. This was a sign that heaven has answered my call, I turned 45 in July 2019, it time for me to move to my next. I tried to negotiate with God , to stay at least two as I did not have a plan in place after resignation.
However as the Bible says "Many are the plans in a man's heart, but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails". I new in my heart and even told my friends that the Lord has open the door for me, all I must do it to enter it , or else He was going to push me out of it, painfully, but it was going to be for my good. I needed to make a decision to honor my answered prayer and take a leap of faith to my destiny. This did not happen in 2019, I dragged myself to work. In 2020 during lockdown, things got worse, I was not coping in my portfolio, I spent ridiculous hours, including my family time trying to learn and understand my portfolio. I could not get it right. Instead I grew more frustrated, I even asked to step down from my snr management role to a junior management role. At this stage I was reporting back to my autocratic boss. She did not waste time, she demoted me and gave me a QA role, she even made sure I did not get bonus for 2019/2020 financial year. That was it for me, this was the 3rd and final sign , I could not be angry with her, even though I was hurt. I could not blame her as I knew that it was time to go. in December I handed in my resignation, I was not bitter, because I knew I over stayed my welcome, the environment was no longer serving me. I did not have a plan, but something in me told be I will not lack, God will provide for my needs, whiles He is pruning me for my future.
I was mentally exhausted, I lost touch of who I was, I was miserable and depressed, I cried most of the time. I sat with my family and told them that I need to resign and pursue my purpose. , I got their support, even though my husband was worried because we just took out a 20 years mortgage loan in 2018 and I earned more than him.
The granny we bought a house from in 2018, gave me a book : The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren, this was my 2nd sign, God was preparing me a year before my 45th birthday.
I handed in my resignation in December 2019, however I was asked to stay on until end February 2021.
I wanted to be a Purpose Driven Transformational Life Coach and Image Consultant, what was interesting is how things were turning out after I took a leap of faith and resigned. I got myself a coach in January 2021, he asked my about myself and my family, I broke down, as I related my story to him. He asked me about my vision and plan, I knew what my vision was but I found it difficult to put a plan in place.
I knew then that I needed to detoxify my conditioned mind, I needed to find myself. I told him in that I need to focus on personal mastery until end of 2021. Come to think of it, I was listening and watching Dr . Myles Munroe, Iyanla Vanzant, Dr. Clarice Fluitt, Pricilla Shier and others. So I shared with my coach some of the insight I got from Dr. Myles teachings and sermons. One day in March as I was listening to Dr Myles motivation, that recording was combined with Les Brown, I started listening to Less Brown motivations and even joined him prodigy program, that's how hungry I am. I must say it has not been easy, but my journey is worth it, I am confident that the Lord has started a good work in me, He will complete it until the day of Christ Jesus.
As I was browsing on Instagram, I saw Vishen's Be extraordinary short video. I always received mindvalley emails, I think since 2016 or 17, as I was searching for purpose or anything that could help me find what my heart and soul was searching for, however I did not read those emails and I even skipped Vishen's videos on YouTube, I was not interested. But The Be Extraordinary video caught my attention, I watched it until the end and I enrolled for membership 2 days later.
My goodness, when I saw what was offered, I was like a kid in a candy store. I enrolled to more than 4 Quests, Life Visioning, Be Extraordinary, Lucid Dreaming, 5 days To A Powerful Memory, Superbrain,7 days to break with sugar, you can tell that I had a monkey mind, I was taking in more than what I can chew. It took me time to get to day 29 as I was destructed in some days, but I pressed on and did some of the practices. This quest has helped me understand myself in many ways I could imagine.
I am in a process of unlearning, becoming and being Extraordinary. The most exciting part is I am in a happy space, I am between the current reality trap and bending reality. I still have some work to do because there are times were I find myself in the negative spiral and negative habits, but I don't stay long in this stage, thanks to all the practices, meditation and visualization. I am still getting grip on meditation and visualization and I need to re-do the quest so that I can review my 3 most important question.
This quest has helped me to pause, review my life and limiting brules. I practice gratitude and do the segment intention daily, this has produced positive results in most cases, going through the quest one more time will help me improve and set my vision and plan in motion. My desire was to get Life Coach Qualification through Mindvalley, I am not sure is that is offered, I am also looking for a mentor and to attract like minded people in my tribe.
Thanks Vishen for this life changing experience. I have not done any videos yet!