The Captain's Log - A Place For What Matters

Aim

The Captain’s Log is a place for what matters - a personal organiser with a difference.

The Captains Log - first it was a physical Journal, now it’s in an app (WIP). 

The aim is simple - to strike a balance between being productive and just being, between hitting goals and being happy with hear and now.   And to help people find and live their calling in life.   Check out https://thecaptainslog.com for more details.

I need to raise funds to further the App Development for mobile, add more products & marketing.

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My Story

After a poor career choice I was catapulted into a work-life I could not have cared less about. For years I accepted it as fate but I was living a meaningless life; at least thats’s the way I saw it. I couldn’t accept that this was what life was all about so I started to search for answers. 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 my goals were and so on.

It worked… in a way. Within about 6 months I had thought myself programming, changed careers and things were certainly looking up.

The problem was that the feeling of hitting a goal was almost always short lived. There was always another goal to take its place and this thing called ‘success’ was still no where to be found.

The search deepened. Now my reading had moved from business to philosophy and spirituality. I was no longer satisfied that material accomplishments alone were the answer.

It was a little strange though, as I had ended up having everything I had always wished for just a few years previous but yet somehow I didn’t feel fulfilled or ‘successful’.

Then one day something clicked. I began to realise just how conditioned my idea of success actually was. It wasn’t even mine, it was societies. I was misguided.

It was now crystal clear to me that outward ‘success’ does not result in fulfilment or happiness, true ‘success’ does... it must. Therefore true success must be something largely internal, something to be cultivated or discovered within.

The problem was, I was too wrapped up in achieving goals; getting busy being busy without ever really asking WHY? There was little depth or meaning behind what I was doing and the answer was not to be found in travelling the world or in a better profession with more money. Believe me I did try.

What was missing was a balance between being productive and just being; Between hitting goals and being happy with 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 you to live a more balanced and happy life.

Thank you!!

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The Making Of...

This project closed unsuccessfully on 15th May 2018