Founder of Practical Wellness Guide, Executive Vision and Kowalski Enterprises, Kamil Kowalski also known as Chris Strongarm, inspires and empowers thousands of people to take immediate action steps to change their lives for the better.
Kamil was blessed to receive a second chance in life after surviving a serious skiing accident, which thankfully put a stop to his deteriorating path. He decided to completely turn around his life, and is now helping individuals to live and organizations to promote wholistic, fulfilling, happy and well-balanced lives.
He motivates others to take full responsibility for their total wellness, to find fulfillment in serving their global or local communities, and in turn contribute to the positive change in the world.
What follows is NOT a sob story, but an inspiration to great possibilities in life!
My life transformation story
At 16 I moved to Toronto and casually started the new lifestyle: lots of friends, part-time job, great old car. I finished High School and University, went on great trips, spent time in pubs – nice and sweet life.
Immediately after University, I started a computer services company. I took the company to an impressive level in a short period of time. Our solutions passed the strictest standards of large companies and institutions such as Rogers Wireless, University Of Toronto, Deutsche Bank and many others.
At that time, I had was experiencing incredible happiness and had a wonderful life, where even the 80-hour work weeks were fun and exciting!
Then about four years later it got tougher as the economy slowed and margins in the computer industry shrinked. More work with a lot more pressure translated into not-so-fun-80-hour-work-weeks. The end result was a costly but highly educational “real-life” MBA degree.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
- G. K. Chesterton
After few insane seasons of overtime work, coffee, pizza and chocolate bars, I ended up with ill health and a poor image: overworked, broke, depressed, fat, and sick most of the time. Even though I was always interested in health, I clearly wasn’t caring about my own wellness at that time.
That’s when I realized that the only sensible way from here was to go back up. So instead of giving up and having a breakdown, I decided to do something about it and proceeded with a total makeover of my body, mind and life. It all started with The Secret.
At 28 years old, I watched the movie “The Secret” and made it my intention to change my life around (mostly the no longer satisfying 80 hours per week part: there had to be a better way to make a great living and really love doing it). I also started looking more into spirituality concepts.
A few months later, I had a near-death experience where after over 8 hours of continuous skiing, I crashed at the end of my last run – a “reset” if you will. It wasn’t pretty, so I was air-lifted 100 miles to the closest major hospital. I was a veggie for a few days, but I strongly believed that this couldn’t be the end. Deep inside I knew that I was yet to make a profound difference in the world.
The accident gave me a much deserved time off. I spent one month in two hospitals and another month in physiotherapy. My healing and full recovery was supported by the healthcare system, by the power of my mind, and by my new spiritual healing friends. This break gave me plenty of time to think, reflect and decide upon a new course in my life.
Big Lesson: Life can change in an instant and so we must be even more grateful for every day that we get to enjoy.
Corollary: If you don’t have too many joyful moments, change your life.
Over the next 2 years I went through a massive transformation. I reprogrammed my mind (habits, behaviour, beliefs, awareness), began spiritual growth, fixed my health and image, pushed to peak effectiveness, and took responsibility for earning my own living by being my best self.
We’re talking 2 years of University grade researching, testing and using various products, services, and concepts. I set out to find mentors and experts in different fields with key selection factors being: results, speed, value, ethics and integrity.
After not knowing my purpose for the longest time, but self-improving and aligning with my dreams and goals, after a few months, when I least expected it, the answer just popped into my head:
I want to provide practical advice to those who seek it on achieving the highest potential doing what one loves, that is achieving true peace and happiness in life — all while being the perfect role-model of the advice. This site is about practical action steps to change your life.
This website is a tribute to those 2 years of my life for the highest good of all. I sincerely hope it will help somebody somewhere. If it has helped you and you would like to thank me, you could do so by either spreading the word, posting a few genuine comments, donating monetarily, or any combination thereof, so that the PWG can grow even bigger faster.
With the help of this website, I am seeking like-minded people to co-create a better world – Kowalski Enterprises 
About this website
This website isn’t just about personal development. It is about complete life makeover. When you to do what you love and support your daily living with it, you’re in a state of bliss. Share your natural skills, knowledge and passion with others. Solve other people’s problems and help them achieve their vision or desires.
Live a happy life while giving happiness to others. – unknown
All advice has been meticulously researched and personally experienced. People’s heart and passion for the service they provide is very important to me – this translates into higher quality and better results. For your benefit, I present my journey as objectively as possible.
Over a period of 10 years I’ve been there, done that, experienced drastic life changes, been pushed to anxiety and patience limits, and been analyzed and self-helped more than most people are in a life-time. Through this website I want to share much of my experiences.
As I learned about myself and understood better how my body, mind, heart and soul work, my life became even more fascinating – a real daily life adventure!
I wish you the same or even better results!
*Special Thanks to Rabeea Syed, Laura Pazzano, Megan Philipp, Michael Stevens and Lauren Gill-Tempro for generous assistance with content editing.
My online profiles
Facebook Fan Page: Practical Wellness Guide
SelfGrowth.com Expert: Kamil Kowalski
Ezine Articles Expert: Kamil Kowalski
Twitter: Sweet Wellness
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