realize2actualize  

My name is Christoph, originally I am from Germany, and I am a life long free thinker and truth thinker. I became interested in the idea of personal development in the mid 90's, a time during which I was going through some radical changes and challenges in my life. On January 19, 1991 I left my home in Germany, moved to Kansas, and became integrated as husband and father into a whole new culture and ethnicity. My marriage of 12 years was overshadowed by a great amount of conflict and drama, an experience which put me face to face with my own personal limitations and shortcomings, but also opened me up to a great amount of introspective learning. In 1993 I came across the subject of personal-improvement, something which was very new to me at the time. I became instantaneously fascinated by the whole idea of working on myself, especially since I was facing some very serious challenges in my own life. After studying countless writers and public speakers such as Dr. Wayne Dwyer, Deepak Chopra, Leo Buscali, John Bradshaw, Dale Carnegy, Anthony Robbins and Earl Nightingale I became extremely inspired by what they had to say, but I began to understand that most of them are pointing us to the same awareness; that we cannot control the circumstance and people outside of us, and that lasting change can only be generated from within once we begin to work on the only person over whom we have ultimate control over, namely ourselves. I came to find that the missing link is how to put all of this awareness into practice, a way for us not only to be reminded of those timeless truths, but also an outlet which can allow us to learn how to apply this knowledge into how we deal with life on a day to day basis. After my divorce became finalized I moved to California in early 2004 and continued on my studies, the product of which is realize2actualize, a philosophy and practice of life and learning, dedicated to the study of how we create our own reality.