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INSPIRATION How to Live Successfully In Challenging Times Conversations with Wolfgang Christoph By Angela Mutiso Wolfgang Christoph is a world renowned strategic life coach, motivational speaker and guide to successful living. He helps people to create opportunities to transform obstacles into stepping stones, build bridges and foundations for success and to achieve their highest potential. Wolfgang says that during his career as a mentor; he has come to see that all people are children in some way regardless of how old they are. Wolfgang has traveled around the world to encourage mankind and has been travelling for the past 30 years. “I see a lot of different cultures, environments and struggles; good and bad, and I realize that as human beings we are all the same, our desires are the same and we can all connect. No matter where we live in the world, we want to be happy, we want to be healthy, and we want to make enough money to make a living, to be safe and to be free.” He says with the right attitude, you can be more or less of anything you want to be. He has been in Kenya doing what he knows best. The Accountant caught up with him during his busy schedule and shares some insights with you. What inspired Wolfgang to become a mentor and to encourage others? And what lessons does he want to share? I was in East Berlin. In 1961 when they built the Berlin wall, I was on the wrong side of the wall. I had gone for a sleepover, I was only 10 years old, and the wall had suddenly separated me from my family. I could not go to the other side, so I was stuck in East Berlin. Instinctively, I decided to swim back to the other side to re-join my family. I don’t know where I got the courage from, but I kept swimming as I was shot at. Thankfully, I was able to get to the other side without being harmed. Life was tough in this part of the world, and that is the life I had experienced with my mother who sad to say, had very weak parental skills. When my son was born in 1983, I realized I had no parental skills either. All I knew about family life was based on how my own mother brought me up. Determined to give my children a good upbringing, I went to college for 42 september - october 2017
INSPIRATION Wolfgang says some people in powerful positions always want to exercise their power over others by instilling fear. He describes fear as; F-false E- evidence A- appearing R-real. He quotes one of William Shakespeare’s masterpieces; “nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so. training on Early Childhood Education. It was during this time that I got interested in mentoring and in training children (for free). I also got into yoga and learned nursing and meditation. I realized through all these and as I learned the psychology of children that all people are children, regardless of how old they are. Living in a country where at the time freedom was restricted, I realized how important freedom is, how hollow life can be, and how much people need to be inspired to live life fully… He understood early through these experiences how easy it is to disconnect as families and how parents can unknowingly create a rift between themselves and their children. He also felt the need to make parents understand how important it is to create an atmosphere of friendliness and understanding between themselves and their offspring in order to build lifelong and binding relationships. Wolfgang says some people in powerful positions always want to exercise their power over others by instilling fear. He describes fear as; F-false E- evidence A- appearing – R-real. He quotes one of William Shakespeare’s masterpieces; “nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” Fear is an acronym; it is what you imagine; don’t feed it. If you feed fear, the consequences will be bad for you. You should always be confident and happy. Don’t bother about people who reject you because you are not like them. Reject evil and evil people. No one wakes up and says I will be evil or a loser, or a failure today. Remember that being happy and fulfilled is not about what you have, it is about your peace of mind, it may be challenging when you have no money, but you must never allow that to determine your happiness. Determine who you are, not what you have. Do not identify yourself with the external concept of what you are supposed to be. Happiness comes from the act of giving. Do it without expectations, believe in yourself; affirm that - I am happy, I have to be happy, I want to be happy, think along these lines and make it a physical reality. Create an attitude of gratitude. Have this fusion approach, it is like a mirror; when you see it far away, you imagine you may never reach there; but if you continue bringing it close to you, you will eventually come face to face with it. Indeed you will come face to face with what you believe in by bringing it closer every hour every minute and each waking day. We need to unlearn the wrong attitudes we have learned. Attract the positives and do things differently if necessary. Don’t think; I am not smart enough, if you want a solution, you can reconcile and change strategies of how to deal with it. You then realize you can do better, you discover your potential, bring new meaning to your life and embrace challenge. Look at it this way; a certain medicine may be bitter, but it may be the best medicine for you, so take it. Saying no! In some cases, if you say no, you give it power and it makes you powerless. Every time you say it is enough, you are giving yourself limitations. But if you say I have to change, the hardest part is over. Continuously work at what you want, make it a part of your conscience. There are times when you may need to create a new habit; the way you perceive things; your life must become mindful not mindless, then you become a participant in life. The attitude of gratitude is basically the foundation of all things to come, if you don’t have this, you may find that you are living a very narrow life; you should remember that you are doing it for yourself but not by yourself. When you make others happy, you too will be relaxed and happy. Wolfgang says he sees people through their attitude of gratitude. We normally get drowned in our anxiety and find no solution; you should propel yourself to a forward motion and whatever you desire, will meet you halfway. Everyone has infinite potential. We all have a mission in life; we are our strengths and weaknesses and potential. When it comes to guiding your children, is important to know where to draw the line as a parent, in every aspect of their lives. Parents send children to college and insist that their children must do the courses they suggest. Encourage dialogue with your children at an early age. Dialogue with your children is critical if you want them to attain their potential. Remember, nothing really belongs to you. This includes what you have and what you don’t have. My children don’t belong to me; I should encourage them to be the best they can be. What is missing in most parent/child relationships is personal engagement and personal development. To reach your potential there are several steps you need to take. Like a business, you need a marketing strategy, you need control, you need to keep the place clean, you need management skills, you need a mission and a vision and you must follow through. There are always rough edges that you need to smoothen when you want to be an entrepreneur or to succeed in any aspect of life. Change bad habits. If you can’t change your mind, change the habits of your mind. You can tell yourself that I am going to replace this thinking with another way of thinking. I will improve it until it becomes second nature. Wolfgang says: “I smile because I practice it” He visited Nagasaki (Nagasaki is a Japanese city on the northwest coast of the island of Kyushu. It’s set on a large natural harbor, with buildings on the terraces of surrounding hills) to re-discover himself and reasons for the longevity of the people in Japan and to have some inward thinking. He discovered that the Japanese try as best september - october 2017 43
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