Showing posts with label Sailing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sailing. Show all posts

Thursday, April 16, 2009

The new website...to go where no chart has gone before!



I think I will go with Carole's suggestion of a nautical theme for my new website. What I like about sailing is that it is very unregulated, no licensing, no registration, and no fees. It's kind of like the freedom of freelancing.....so.....sailancing is a very appropriate term.
Plus, our futures are as vast as the oceans. Almost anything is possible if we have faith in possibilities. Even though sailing requires a lot of "target setting" on landmarks, when you are in open water you need to depend on chart. I see career counseling as the charts for uncharted areas of your work life. It is my hope and prayer to help people to discover the uncharted possibilities of their lives.

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Literaly...making a living from a sailboat


One of the bloggers, Danielle, said "why don't you literaly make a living on a sailboat by taking people on the boat for a day or weekend to think through their career dreams". I just stared, like a deer staring at headlights, and after a long pause said "Cool!".
It was successful when I took teenagers on 7-day canoe trips to dream about their futures. There is just something about getting away from the hussel-and-bussel of daily life in order to step back and take a look at your life.
Danielle, who is trained in art therapy, suggesting taking time on the sailboat to read, write, and draw. Again, something I find extremely beneficial as I sit, here, in my sailboat every morning. I think the drawing would be a lot more therapeutic anchored in a cove off Georgiana Island in Lake Simcoe.
Would you spend a day on a sailboat just to get an idea of your work dreams and future?