We’re all on a journey in life and on this journey what could be more important than knowing who you are, the path that your on and you’re strategy for getting there?
This is what the captains log aims to help you answer.
Don’t be a passenger. Be the Captain.
How It Started:
Over a decade ago and clueless as to what to do with my life I visited a career guidance counselor. He made a suggestion. It sounded respectable and like it had the potential to fulfill my naive and immature definition of success at the time. I had no clue what I wanted so I rolled with it. Big mistake!
I was then catapulted into a work-life I could not have cared less about. For years I accepted it as fate but then I began to feel I was living a meaningless life. Eventually I couldn’t take it anymore, there had to be more to life than this. I started to search for answers and I started to read… a lot.
From the autobiographies of top entrepreneurs like Richard Branson and Dragons Den business-men to self-help classics like Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. I was all “7 habits this, goal-setting that”. I couldn’t get enough. Success was on the brain and gradually my mind started to open. Old thought patterns began to disintegrate and new possibilities and opportunities started to unfold.
This is when I began setting goals and keeping a journal. You know the drill, a few lines of reflection at the end of each day asking where was I going in life, what were my goals.
It worked… in a way. Within about 6 months I had thought myself programming, changed careers and became a web developer; things were certainly looking up.
The problem, it seemed to me, was that the feeling I got from hitting a goal was almost always short lived. There was always another goal to take it’s place and this thing called ‘success’ was still no where to be found; just like Bono – I still hadn’t found what I was looking for.
The search deepened. Now my reading had moved from business and entrepreneurship to philosophy, spirituality and yoga. I was no longer satisfied that material accomplishments alone were the answer, I had deeper questions, I still do!
Then one day something clicked. I began to realize just how conditioned my idea of success actually was. It wasn’t really even mine, it was what I’d been led to believe I needed in order to be successful.
It was clear: outward ‘success’ does not always result in fulfillment or happiness, true ‘success’ does and must. Therefore true success must be largely internal, something to be cultivated or discovered within.
The problem was, I was too wrapped up in achieving goals; getting busy being busy with out ever really asking WHY. There was little depth or meaning behind what I was doing and the answer wasn’t to be found in travelling the world or in a better profession with more money and believe me I tried.
What was missing was a balance between being productive and just being, between hitting goals and progressing in life to being happy with the here and now.
I created the Captains log as a tool to help strike this balance. It’s no magic pill, just a tool to help live a more balanced and happy life.
Contact Information:
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