Write your Own Story
The Art of Living Your Story
A Journey Through Life's Infinite Possibilities
"You should write a book" I'd rather shoot a movie, with Sequels. A Show rather than Tell-All.
How can I compose a story big enough, deep enough and broad enough to encompass the reality of my life? When I'm at sea, immersed in action, I am the protagonist. You can't create experiences like this, you undergo them.
The power of narrative comes forth when I am engaged in the telling (or selling) of these accounts.
There are 3 versions: First, the edited "inside version," Secondly, The story I tell the world, and Thirdly, my created self - or RL Real Life (story). Depending on my audience, my motive, or my mood at any given time... The countless possible versions of (my story) can vary widely.
"Whoever authors your story authorizes your actions."
When we tell our own story—and write our own autobiography, we truly begin to live more consciously and unfold our own myth—with us as producer and director, going out to sea, in an infinity of hope, it's life's coming attraction, where we have final cut. There is, indeed, the uniqueness of inhabiting our own life when we follow our bliss and tell our own story.
I think that the majority of people never get inside their own lives.
Write? Right!
A One-Man-National Geographic on that everywhere trip.
The earth school kills all of its students. Life is like rowing out to sea in a boat that has a hole in the bottom. Have as much joy and fun and fulfillment - because success without fulfillment is failure. This is known as Present-Moment Hedonism; conservative risk-averse types call it PoiZen.
Traveling is like shaving my head - if I'm not doing it everyday I start to feel like a bum. I use traveling as a medicine to feel differently. Traveling is a drug that gives me a fix when I'm down and turns feeling normal into a buzz.
Unlike retail therapy that ends up being buyer's remorse, the cure IS the poison, and the fool, who persists in his folly, becomes wise. The pressure of modern life (or as it's also known, being lucky enough to be born in the USA) seems tiny compared to some of the beauty in the world.
Action Plan
Alaska - The Great Land
Consciousness Is Wireless
Exploring the depths of connection
Hooked
My Life Based On A True Story
Everyday Epiphanies
Despite the undoubted camaraderie, the laughs, the jollies and the sense of tribalism that attends any cruise contract or project, the profession remains a notoriously lonely one. FriendSHIPs are intense but brief; when the gig ends or the curtain comes down, you can soon find yourself back home staring at your cell phone and wondering if any of it really happened.
I write my own rules for nautical success: continued enthusiasm despite failure after failure.