I Am a Seed: Journaling My Way to Me

By Yves Doucet

In his debut book, I Am a Seed, author Yves Doucet offers his reflections on living a life of perpetual growth. Sharing intensely private stories of his career and family, he gives genuine examples of how journaling can impact one's existence. He explains how journaling helped him identify the most important things in his life, and how it helped him start again and grow.

Doucet tells how journaling your thoughts exposes you to the truth of the confusion, enables unbridled personal growth, and frees you from the weight of a complex world. With sixty-six days' worth of thoughtful considerations to get you started, I Am a Seed presents a living book inspiring you to begin a journaling practice. Once you establish your journaling routine, your life will become less complicated, and your purpose will become much brighter.

Through Doucet's messages, he communicates how regularly documenting your thoughts, feelings, and story leads to a better life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Dec 3, 2020
• ISBN: 9781982258283

Book preview

DAY 1

The Difficulty Is Not Following

Your Heart; It’s Hearing It

I WAS STUCK in a job I didn’t like, but the pay was great, the team was great, and the benefits were amazing. "Be a man and just bear with the pain for a few more years, and then you can retire," I told myself.

The days grew longer, and the amount I needed to retire seemed like an impossible goal. It’s okay, I told myself. If I just do as I’m told, then I can survive. So I tried to please them—to get better at the things they wanted me to focus on. I tried to get better at reporting my progress and writing and collaborating more with the other teams. Each day grew darker, and my attitude changed, but I didn’t see it. I became more defiant and looked to blame others for my unhappiness; I couldn’t hear my heart because I was too busy blaming, complaining, and attacking. Pretty soon, I had lost the courage to take on tasks that filled my heart, and as I waited for the others to fail, I was just putting in time.

I had once been very good at innovation, creativity, and selling. I was very good at solving very technical problems, but what I really excelled at was building teams who could deliver world-class products. That was who I could have been. Instead, I became a vice president of nothing. Listening to the critics of others made me try to become like them—or at least what they believed I needed to become—but, more importantly, it blinded me to my true self.

Can you journal about the things you love to do, remembering how they made you feel and how energized you