How do you work through self-doubts and fear?
QUIET
TIME. I'VE ALWAYS FELT, EVEN AS A KID, THAT FOR THE MOST PART WE HAVE
ALL THE ANSWERS THAT WE NEED BUT WE JUST DON'T KNOW IT OR HAVE NEVER HAD
THE OPPORTUNITY TO PUT THEM INTO WORDS. I DISCOVERED 'QUIET TIME' (NOT
PUNITIVE QUIET TIME!) WHEN I WAS ABOUT TEN FOR THAT IS WHEN I TRY TO
LISTEN TO WHAT IS GOING ON DEEP INSIDE OF ME, AWAY FROM THE NAGGING
NEGATIVE VOICES AND SELF DOUBT. THE ANSWER MIGHT BE AS SIMPLE AS FINDING
A SMILE WITHIN, BUT THAT SMILE HAS GOTTEN ME THROUGH THICK AND THIN FOR
THAT SMILE IS ME APPROVING OF ME!!
What scares you the most?
FAILURE
TO REACH MY POTENTIAL REGARDLESS THE ARENA. WHETHER IT'S BEING WITH MY
KIDS, LEARNING SOMETHING NEW OR FACING A DAUNTING TASK. MANY TIMES IN
FACE OF FEAR I MIGHT BACK AWAY AS I'M AFRAID OF A NEGATIVE OUTCOME, BUT
IF I SUMMON UP MY INNER STRENGTH, TRY NOT TO LISTEN TO THE FALSE FEARS
AND GIVE THE SITUATION ALL THAT I HAVE, I STAND MY BEST CHANCE AT
REACHING MY POTENTIAL. IT'S ONLY IN HINDSIGHT THAT I CAN SEE I DIDN'T
REGARD MY POTENTIAL AND THAT'S USUALLY WHEN I'M THE HARDEST ON MYSELF.
What makes you happiest?
A HAPPY OUTCOME, A BABIES' LAUGHTER, BEING AT PEACE WITH MYSELF AND NATURE AT HER FULLEST AND MOST BEAUTIFUL.
What’s your greatest character strength?
THAT'S
A HARD ONE… PERHAPS MY BUILT IN BLINDERS TO OBSTACLES AND THE
WILLINGNESS TO TRY AND PERSEVERE REGARDLESS THE ODDS. OPTIMISM.
What’s your weakest character trait?
I CAN BE VERY, VERY HARD ON MYSELF.
Why do you write?
I
HAVE NO IDEA! PERHAPS IT'S TO GIVE VOICE TO ALL THOSE SCENARIOS AND
IDEAS INSIDE OF ME. WRITING ALSO TAKES ME TO A PLACE NOTHING ELSE CAN. I
LOVE THE FEELING OF SITTING DOWN TO WRITE FRO WHAT I THOUGHT WAS AN
HOUR WHEN IT WAS ACTUALLY FOUR!
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A sailor and his family's harrowing and inspiring story of their attempt to sail the treacherous Northwest Passage.
Sprague
Theobald, an award-winning documentary filmmaker and expert sailor with
over 40,000 offshore miles under his belt, always considered the
Northwest Passage--the sea route connecting the Atlantic to the
Pacific--the ultimate uncharted territory. Since Roald Amundsen
completed the first successful crossing of the fabled Northwest Passage
in 1906, only twenty-four pleasure craft have followed in his wake. Many
more people have gone into space than have traversed the Passage, and a
staggering number have died trying. From his home port of Newport,
Rhode Island, through the Passage and around Alaska to Seattle, it would
be an 8,500-mile trek filled with constant danger from ice, polar
bears, and severe weather.
What
Theobald couldn't have known was just how life-changing his journey
through the Passage would be. Reuniting his children and stepchildren
after a bad divorce more than fifteen years earlier, the family embarks
with unanswered questions, untold hurts, and unspoken mistrusts hanging
over their heads. Unrelenting cold, hungry polar bears, and a haunting
landscape littered with sobering artifacts from the tragic Franklin
Expedition of 1845, as well as personality clashes that threaten to tear
the crew apart, make The Other Side of the Ice a harrowing story of
survival, adventure, and, ultimately, redemption.
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Genre – Memoir, adventure, family, climate
Rating – PG
More details about the author
Website www.spraguetheobald.com
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