Resilience is a powerful trait, often celebrated in stories and literature. It's the quiet voice at the end of the day whispering, 'I will try again tomorrow.' It's about finding the inner strength to face adversity head-on, to endure, and to emerge stronger than before. Life's challenges are not meant to paralyze you; they're meant to help you discover who you are. Remember, it's not about avoiding the storm, but learning to dance in the rain. Every hardship is a chapter in your story of perseverance, and every time you carry on, you add another page of triumph.
Joel. Very impressive. Clipped the part about not giving up to my son. He is doing some hard stuff. Gave him a quick synopsis of your channel. Here it is. “Super funny story came to Florida with a bunch of dudes. They almost died all the dudes left. Enter a beautiful girlfriend just gorgeous stayed with him for years had a wild ride. Then brutally dumped him. He wandered around the forest for about half a year, then returned to his boat and has been making a comeback.” My version anyways
I always tell myself two things, if it wasn't difficult it wouldn't be worth doing and if nothing goes wrong it's not an adventure. Gets me through a lot of difficult times when I'm trying to do something.
Hey Joel, your videos are so well done! Had me smiling and laughing at your inner turmoil. Most of us dyi guys can relate. When you try and fix something and then mess it up more is just the pits, but the glory is making things work with your own decisions. Keep it up!
😁 Happy to bring laughs and glad to know I’m not the only one! As you said, it really sucks when I make things work but the satisfaction of actually fixing something and seeing it work…well it’s bloody gold! Glad to meet another DIY guy
Anyone that has lived on a boat for any length of time has experienced what you are going through. You have to take the bad with the good. Finding out who you really are is hard and looking for advice from others is generally a waste of time.
Good to see the fixes, although if you can I would beef up the epoxy fix. I've struggled with depression too - body mind soul - so don't forget nutrition! And stress depletes you. You are more than enough, you're living the dream. Try coming back to land and working a boring 9-5 for a few years if you really want a reminder of that.
Thank you! Good call on the beefing up, it only lasted a little while before it failed again. I know your right but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t consider it from time to time.
Hey Joel it was cool to hear you mention my name as a new patron! I have been watching your videos for a while and knew i was past due for supporting your channel. You do a great job with video and content. Not an easy thing to do. Keep going and never surrender. You have a way of connecting with people and that is not a gift everyone has.
I lived in an RV 44 for two years and I lived on a 32 footer for another year and I lived on a boat for six months not a sailboat but you’re better off with a life that you have on the water bro than land don’t let it break you cause I’m heading to the water soon hopefully in the next year I want at least a 40 footer got a find out the right Anchorage that I could be at and try to save money while I repair boats whoever needs it all around me enjoy watching your videos
Good thinking on the dingy throttle fix, in the future you might check into scooter or motorcycle parts for throttle parts when out in the Islands or far off the beaten paths, just an Idea. I am near 67yrs old Joel and it seems almost every day is a series of tests, I think we are tested every day in life, if not then we are probably dead.
Intetesting timing on this one. I went through the exact same mental process a few days ago dealing with my Volvo 2040…questioning the entire refit and boat (a W32). The next day I said F it to the engine and started on the boomkin. Feeling much better just by switching gears a bit. All the gratitude and positive reinforcement can be helpful as long as we are not repressing who and what we are now. It’s perfectly fine to feel ungrateful, and fine with ourselves lacking gratitude. The trick is to come to a balanced observation and allow it to move through. I always anchor in mu breath until the process of breathing is my main focus…then the thoughts and feelings become the peripheral objects. There is balance there and now my feelings and emotions have the freedom to move through.
That is something I have been exploring! In hindsight I realized I was repressing much of how I actually felt. Not allowing it to flow through me. Eventually it all came exploding out. Appreciate your insight and feedback. Good luck on your refit blue_colar_sailor!
Hey Joel, 😄 keep smiling 😁 man, evan the brand new boats are braking one way or another, it's just always going to be a part of boat life always fixing something, you do your best everyday that's all you can do, God bless
What does not kill me makes me stronger. That's been my moto for years. 😊 Every new challenge is a learning experience. I don't have to immediately know the answer or have the solution but I do keep pondering on how to achieve sucess. Don't give up. You will find a way. Necessity is the mother of invention. Think how would someone make this plastic part 50 years ago? Use some clay or playdough to form a mold. Line it with plastic or spray on a release agent. Mix up some epoxy & microfibers, pour into the mold, make sure there are no air bubbles, wait for it to set up. Presto! You have a new part. 🤗 👍 ⛵S/V Cork~Texas 🇺🇸
While it is true that positivity is a good way to be. Better yet is the understanding that you live and operate in an environment that does not care about you or your stuff and everything is degrading. The mindset of a solo sailor is to reckon with that fact. Your mind over matter, continuous pursuit of knowledge and relentless pursuit to persevere in anything you do.
7 minutes in and Im thinking. This is MY day, everyday, lately. 6am-2am, grind grind grind and I wonder why.... Because it HAS to be done and NO ONE ELSE is willing, able or there to do it. "Hold Fast" Skipper.
"We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery." -- Samuel Smiles
Don't be so hard on yourself. Life is supposed to have challenges. It hones us. And don't forget to give a bit of a prayer (and a shout out) to God as well. He just makes it so much easier to deal with "life".
Oh, it was Christmas and New Years. This video was filmed a bit ago. I worked hard to get ahead of the timeline. There are advantages and disadvantages
Buy two my friend. Shipping will likely not be any different and then you have a spare for the next time.......and there will be a next time. Anytime I break a part like that, I order a spare.
When things go wrong, what you should remember is….It’s great content. If the dinghy motor didn’t break you would have less content. When you got crazy stuff happening and everything is breaking you should be thinking. “ awesome, I’ve got more interesting content that I didn’t even have to develop”. That what I do when things are going crazy. I don’t have a RU-vid channel but the more things go wrong the more I think. “Man this is gonna be a great story to tell”. Then I almost hope it gets worse so the story will be better
I love that thinking! One time I was hoping freight trains, crossed Donner summit in the Sierra’s two times in one night. On the return west to east crossing with an air temperature of 7 degrees I remembered thinking “ if I don’t freeze to death this will be a great story!” Well I didn’t and it is.
You have too many lifequestions, there are no real answers, just accept that life happens, but your goals and actions change the direction life goes, these actions go into the same pool as "life happens" and change the flow of everything and everyone around you, thats what most times your plans fail, but when you feed the "life happens pool" with your energy and actions, then eventually you can persevere. Ofcourse sometimes youre in alignment of the vibe of the moment and it seems everything is going right. Thats it, just accept that everything takes its time. Now stop listening to life advices, and start finding it out for yourself, all these so called gurus are doing this exact thing, and most of the time they only make their money with giving "advice".
Ps.. owns can change by the resistance changes between your fingers if HOLDING the connections by hand. Anyway, I believe in you and your challenges. Keep going bro. Love watching your truths and growths.
If i don't give up YOU don't get to give up. Talking to a camera is insulating you from the stadium of people who you are speaking with. You aren't by yourself your leading an armada, stay the course commodore
That is all you gotta do, Believe! And Jesus is your salvation to life everlasting. John 3:15-17 15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. God work Joel! sorted a throttle issue and an autopilot, not easy stuff being alone on a sailboat!
Please Watch Over Joel HOLY SPIRIT. He's a *Good* man who battles negativity & naysayers, (as the rest of us do.) Please Infuse Joel With *Gratitude*, Which Will Provide him With A Continued *Positive* Attitude, To Attain The *Necessary* Latitude, For Future Possible *BEATITUDE*! Thank YOU For Hearing my Prayer HOLY SPIRIT. 🙏🦉 🌅🌊⛵🌊🌅
Hey Joe, great job staying positive and for working through the issues on Chak. However, I want to take a moment to bring back to something you stated in a recent video. You said that you're not going to be a self-help channel, not going to be a life coach, not going to be anything but yourself. Which I think is great and the right thing. This video was too close to the self-help life coach again. Be Joel, be your authentic self. I know you're out there doing it alone right now. Maybe you need to start looking for a new partner, somebody who levels you out and calms your mind. I am truly worried that you are trapped in your own mind and not knowing finding a way to move forward and let go of Michal. It is time to step into the water, immerse yourself 3 times, and come out re-baptised in life and just be you. No more crazy antics, no more emotional roller coaster, just Joel.
Lol I do see where your coming from but this was simply focusing and analyzing myself. I never said I was going to stop working to grow just that I would stop pretending I had any answers for others. But perhaps your onto something, still finding my footing.
