How did I come to Mess to yes Coaching?

Born in 1976, I grew up as a village child in the southwest German province. Safe and sound with my parents in the beautiful house we built ourselves, with my little sister.

Grandma with her big sister in the little half-timbered house across the courtyard. Part-time farming with fruit, vegetables, butchery and distilling schnapps as well as growing and pressing wine and 20 chickens, including 6 cats on the farm at times. So I learned early on about the processes of sowing and harvesting, hard work, weather influences, input/output. Hermeticism and divine order at it`s finest, only I had no idea about it at the time.

I grew up to be a rebellious, leather-jacketed, tattooed, blue-haired teenager who loved heavy metal (“chainsaw music”) more than anything. The blue hair is now copper-colored again. But some things never change….

School didn’t give me much, so I decided, pragmatic as I was and am, to do an apprenticeship. No matter what. The main thing is to have a bill in your hand. In the end, she became a medical assistant. I was immediately fascinated by the laboratory and the analyses. Logic, calculations, examining things, tabulating, putting things in order. Discovering worlds under the microscope. I was the first to take blood samples.

After completing my training, I knew that this could not be my profession until I retired.

So I joined a major global player, who offered me the training, including the master craftsman (higher technical examination) to become a laboratory technician. Exactly my thing. The next step was to develop project-related analysis methods, uncover problems, analyze, solve, sort, trial and error. Research and develop every day until the evening. I was completely in my element. The lab was my playground. This is where I opened up. My mind was constantly being fed, and my ego along with it. Top marks, chandeliers lit up for me. Several months in the USA in California after training. It was a great time. I was fascinated by the laws of nature, chemistry, biology and physics. Thermodynamics. And how these laws could be applied to life itself. I still only had a rudimentary idea of hermetics. It was all about logic, reason, head. Nevertheless, I knew that there were other things between heaven and earth.

Throughout this time, order has always played a major role. Of course, conducting studies and experiments without order is possible, but pointless. And there should be order in the lab, otherwise it becomes dangerous…

In 2018, I moved to the competition to help set up a new department. It was chaotic at the beginning, everything was in its infancy. I saw right from the start that defined processes and order were necessary. To keep stress levels low and employees and customers satisfied. Nobody wants to work in a mess store (Mess) or invest money. Here I saw again how order and defined processes lead to outstanding results. Yes!

After long discussions about necessity, budget, capacity, etc., I set up the lab logistics with a highly esteemed colleague. Cheers Dragana, I love you! Things were running smoothly. The scientists were happy in the lab, focused on what they were doing. No stress due to searching, disorganization, defective equipment, missing chemicals, etc.

This led me to the realization that this theme of order is just as applicable to our inner life.

Combing the soul and creating order within. Then the outside will also fall into place. The two are constantly interacting. If we sort out our outside, we do the same on the inside. And vice versa. First, the idea comes from within.

This was the initial spark for the idea of the coaching business. Analyzing, getting to the bottom of things, organizing, untangling. Growing, moving forward.

Let your soul be combed through.

Mess to Yes!

With love, Andrea