Half Moon at Sea

By Joseph Steiner

Joseph Steiner spent two years on a journey through the Caribbean Islands on a sailboat called Half Moon. Since his college years, he had been pursuing Maslow's dream of achieving self-actualization. On an island called Antigua, he found it, and in this short paper, he has done his best to share that peak experience with you, and teach the method he has developed - TOTAL - that will allow you to share that experience and achieve self-actualization for yourself in your own life.

TOTAL is composed of 5 essential ingredients, the pursuit of which will enhance your life and help you achieve happiness and peace regardless of what life throws at you.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Noda Publishing
• Release date: Oct 27, 2014
• ISBN: 9780993967009

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Half Moon at Sea

A Journey towards Self Actualization

Written by Joseph Steiner

Edited by Jessica Steiner

Published by Noda Publishing at Smashwords

Copyright 2014 by Joseph Steiner and Noda Publishing

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Table of Contents

Chapter One: Living Alone

Chapter Two: Who Am I?

Chapter Three: Fulfilling Self-Esteem, the 5 Essentials

Chapter Four: The Obstacle to Change

Chapter Five: The Joy of Doing

Chapter One: Living Alone

It’s 3:30 am. The air has a smell of sweet rain water. The air temperature is warm but not hot. A warmness that feels comfortable and inviting. I step outside into that night air and it envelops me like a Mother that wraps her arms around her child that she loves unconditionally. I feel safe and loved here in Antigua. The blackness of the night is punctuated by the lights on the masts of sailboats, some at anchor and some tied to their slips in the marinas scattered around Falmouth Bay. My sailboat is anchored. I have no lights on as I am miserly when it comes to saving electricity. Though I have solar panels and a wind generator which in total make around 100 amps per day, there are many days that I use more than I make. On those days I have to start the engine and make more with the alternator. This is where I live now, on board a 42’ Pearson 424 sloop sailboat. She’s an old lady with a facelift and a heart transplant. She’s almost 30 years old but her engine is a lot younger. It’s only 10 ten years old and used only 1500 hours.

I’m awake. It’s not unusual for me to wake up around this time of night. At 61, my bladder can’t wait until sunup. And then the thoughts come, uncontrollably. I have lots of thoughts and I toss and turn trying to find just the right combination of body position and pillow configuration. But it’s no use, I can’t fall asleep. So I get up and look around. Did I drag? Am I still at anchor where I am supposed to be, where I have been for 10 ten days? The neighboring boats seem to be in the same place so, no, I have not dragged. I wonder if I’ll drag when summer storms will arrive. Will I even be here when those storms arrive? I hardly know where I’ll be next week let alone 3 three months from now. It’s the beginning of spring now and I’m looking forward to somewhat calmer winds. Those winter winds, called Christmas winds here, have been strong. Gusts to 35 knots were not uncommon. Cold fronts from the North sweep down towards the Caribbean Sea and suck the trade winds into them, thereby accelerating the already brisk easterlies from their usual 15-20 knots up to 20-25