achieved all of my life goals and now feel like nothing?

You were probably hoping for some sort of grand outcome to come from all this and might have been disappointed so now don't feel like there's a point to setting goals and completing them. Plus, something traumatic happened to you and it must have shaken you pretty badly. Just let time pass and you will start to regain the energy you had before

THAT'S your next goal... regain your confidence an dperspective on life

Probably be the harder than sailing around the world.

Try some personal Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and keep a daily diary.. what you were doing at the time/ how you felt at that moment/ grade it on a scale 1-10/ what else COULD you have thought about/ Grade THAT NEW thought 1-10

That's it basically.. have a sheet of paper with columns using those "titles" and fill the columns in.. the reason for the narrow columns is to focus your thought process instead of writing reams and reams of pessimistic thoughts.. by writing the thought which went with what you were doing at the time.. you begin to see a pattern

It worked for me many years ago.. hardest work I ever had to do for 6 months mind you, but paid dividends by the bucketfull :-)

You've ironically started in what i think is the right place...

Asking questions. Ask some more. Not just here, as you'll get all sorts of answers, some helpful, some not, but ask questions of yourself, of life, religion, people...

Why do you lack confidence?

Why do you feel the need to carry on?

Why do you lack drive?

Write the answers down.

Then split them into negative (pessimistic) and positive (optimistic) answers. Then look at the negatives, and see if they are true. If they are, try and get rid of them. Now look at the positives. Are they true? Build on them!

Remember, there are always plenty of people to turn and talk to, even when you feel rubbish or alone. People like Samaritans will chat things over with you to help you work things out. I hope you get things sorted out. You can contact me via my profile.

do you think because boat sank you didnt achive your goal or was it being so close to death that makes you feel this way?

the feeling of having to depend on coastguard may have left you feeling less confident ,you know that could happen to anyone doing what you have done,therefore nothing wrong with that.you were just unlucky at that moment.you had the courage to do it & im sure you,d do it again.after all that your feeling a bit drained in all departments.that will pass & you,ll be your old self again ,hard to keep a good one down ,good luck.

Writing is definatly what you're reliable at, you have shown that even right here. Its unhappy whilst human beings write unintelligebly, so a reliable author does'nt oftne bypass ignored. human beings nonetheless study books! think of your self being printed! Being unhappy with the way you look is now and lower back an important element of existence. some have it greater solid in some aspects than others. you're very reliable at writing, whilst others are no longer so reliable. I consider above stated, you will could come to words with the way you look. human beings for sure choose for to stare and make exciting of people who look distinctive, if for no different reason than because of the fact they have a no longer user-friendly time coping with it of their very own minds. Psychology is humorous like that. human beings's reactions to issues they'd't fairly wrap their minds around. it relatively is what it relatively is. I look after a guy or woman who grow to be born with a clef lip and pallet, and he lifts me up plenty every time I see him. He continuously has a grin on his face, and he's able to assist out with notwithstanding. We sing and snort, and have the terrific time. I dont fairly understand what his motivation in existence is, yet i understand that he has chanced on it in some unspecified time interior the destiny. you relatively need to spend a while with what makes you chuffed. Laughter is the terrific drugs.

Go skydiving, get a SCUBA license, build a car, build a boat, go back to school, TRAVEL, finish this list:

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Then you lack imagination and creativity. Go get some. Go volunteer to help poor people in your country.

Jesus said "happy are those conscious of their spiritual need". We all are born with it, some just don't recognize that this is what their hungering for.

try fostering, it will open your eyes, and your heart.