Catching Life’s Currents
A 14-Week Guideposts Journey
Catching Life’s Currents: A 14-Week Guideposts Journey
A practical, playful philosophy of self-awareness and growth — where curiosity, reflection, and the invisible currents of life guide you to understand yourself, your relationships, and the world around you.
A fool insisted on riding the river backwards. Because of his experience and training, he believed the best way to navigate was by steering away from the boats behind him. Every so often, he would crash into a boat in front of him and yell, “Why don’t you look where you’re going?” And so he kept crashing, wondering why the river is so full of fools.
Tired of the fools in your life? Ready to consider why we keep crashing?
What Is Catching Life’s Currents?
Catching Life’s Currents is a 14-week guided journey through fourteen practical Guideposts for navigating life — developed, taught, and refined over decades by educator, author, and navigator Miss Lynn Marie Sager.
This is not a typical online course. There are no quick fixes here, no motivational slogans, and no promises of overnight transformation. What there is — is a coherent, honest, often funny philosophy of living, taught through story, grounded in real teaching experience, and delivered in a voice that talks with you rather than at you.
Over fourteen weeks, you’ll explore each Guidepost in depth — learning reflection techniques, practical strategies, and ways to approach challenges — so that by the end, you have a complete personal navigation toolkit you can return to again and again.
Because here’s what most courses won’t tell you: one pass through isn’t enough. It was never meant to be. The Guideposts are designed to be cycled through repeatedly — like Benjamin Franklin’s thirteen ideals — each time revealing something new, because each time you return, you are a different person standing in a different place on the river.
What Former Students Are Saying:
“Wonderfully insightful… Thank you, Lynn. It’s helping.” — Loriann Tavares
“So insightful and informative… a Bible worth reading for self-help and understanding others who pass through your life.” — P. Romano
“A simple, original, and thought-provoking guide to taking charge of your life by recognizing the laws of the river… Cuts through clichés to the principles of cause and effect.” — Carol Osborn
What You’ll Receive — Regardless of How You Travel:
Every Navigator receives:
Access to all fourteen complete Guidepost lessons in the Navigator’s Study Hall — your permanent home base for the course, available anytime
A weekly Navigational Nudge delivered to your inbox every Sunday — a short story or reflection designed to keep the Guideposts alive between cycles
The A River Worth Riding Companion Journal — a downloadable PDF for weekly reflections, goal setting, and time auditing across all fourteen weeks
Access to the Whackadoodle community chat — to share questions, insights, and discoveries with fellow Navigators
How Would You Like to Travel?
Self-Study Journey — Learn at Your Own Pace $15/month — included with any paid subscription to Navigating a Whackadoodle World
The most flexible option. All fourteen lessons are available to you immediately in the Navigator’s Study Hall. Work through them at your own pace, revisit as often as you like, and follow along with your weekly Navigational Nudge for continued guidance. Access to the community chat is included.
Nothing could be easier to begin: simply upgrade to a paid subscription and you’ll automatically gain access to the entire curriculum — no separate sign-up required.
One-on-One Weekly Sessions — Personalized Guidance $100 per session — 14 sessions — $1,400 total Scholarships available — I mean it. If this is the right fit but the price isn't, please share your story with me at DearNavigator@gmail.com
Forty-minute weekly sessions tailored entirely to you. Pre-reading delivered each week to prepare you for our conversation. A private Substack chat for reflection and ongoing dialogue between sessions. Scheduling is flexible and built around your calendar.
Ideal for anyone who wants personalized accountability, deeper exploration, and the experience of having Miss Lynn in your corner for the full fourteen weeks.
Includes a four-month paid subscription to Navigating a Whackadoodle World.
Cost-saving option: Grab a friend and split the cost. Two people traveling together, one session — the river is better with company.
Group Sessions — Travel With Your Crew Pricing varies by group size — contact me for an estimate
Offered as single Guidepost presentations or as the full fourteen-week journey — for teams, communities, organizations, book clubs, or groups of friends who enjoy growing together.
Pre-reading provided to all participants. Live sessions recorded for anyone unable to attend. Shared community chat for ongoing questions and dialogue. Optional breakout exercises for group discussion and reflection.
Includes a four-month paid group subscription to Navigating a Whackadoodle World.
Contact me at DearNavigator@gmail.com to discuss what would work best for your group.
Limited Beta Group — Special Introductory Offer $10 per session — 14 sessions — $140 total Limited to ten participants — closes when full — Scholarships available
For a short time, I’m opening a beta test of the group format — and I’m looking for ten curious, committed Navigators to help me refine it.
You’ll experience the full fourteen-week journey at a significantly reduced rate. In exchange, I ask for your honest feedback and active participation. Live sessions will be recorded for use in future course refinements.
Includes a four-month paid subscription to Navigating a Whackadoodle World.
This offer is genuinely limited. When ten spots are filled, it closes.
Ready to test the waters? Message me below or email DearNavigator@gmail.com
Course Overview
The first seven Guideposts focus on building self-awareness and agency. We begin with Cause and Effect — seeing how actions shape outcomes — and move into Definition and Belief, where we examine how perception frames experience. Reflection teaches us to notice patterns in ourselves and others. Focus and Attention and Strategy offer practical tools for intentional action. Vacuum and Process and Growth help organize priorities and honor the steps that make growth possible.
Guideposts Eight through Fourteen shift toward responsible interaction with the world. Responsibility and Contribution show how we relate to others ethically and effectively. Attraction and Entropy explore relationships, influence, and navigating life’s inevitable changes. Communication, Persuasion and Influence, and Indirect Effort offer tools for connecting with, inspiring, and guiding others — starting always with ourselves, and rippling outward.
Taken together, the fourteen Guideposts guide you from noticing how life works, to acting deliberately, to influencing the world around you with integrity and insight. Each Guidepost builds on the last — creating a river of knowledge, practice, and personal growth that deepens with every pass.
The Individual Guideposts
Week 1 — The Power of Cause and Effect Understand how your choices, actions, and circumstances interact to create outcomes. Seeing this clearly gives you space to predict, explain, and influence what happens in your life.
Week 2 — The Power of Definition and Belief Examine how your definitions and beliefs shape your perception and actions. Identify limiting beliefs and explore ways to gently redefine them to better support how you want to navigate life.
Week 3 — The Power of Reflection Use reflection to uncover patterns in your experiences and in others’ words and actions. Gain clarity on which beliefs may need to be examined or redefined — and learn to play the most useful game on the river: “They live in a world where…”
Week 4 — The Power of Focus and Attention What you pay attention to shapes your experience. Learn to direct attention deliberately, expand mental clarity, and notice what matters instead of only the negatives.
Week 5 — The Power of Strategy Without a strategy, you may flounder through life; with one, you set a clear course. Meet the three parts of your mind that make strategy possible, and create a Personal Commission to navigate with direction and intention.
Week 6 — The Power of Vacuum Nature abhors a vacuum: if you don’t fill your life with what matters, it will fill up with other people’s sand. Conduct a time audit and develop a personalized planning tool that actually works for you.
Week 7 — The Power of Process and Growth Many areas of life follow a process — decision-making, delegating, building self-esteem, even creativity. Skipping steps causes unnecessary capsizing. Honor process to make your journey smoother and more manageable.
Week 8 — The Power of Responsibility The last of the human freedoms is choosing your response. Taking responsibility for your actions strengthens self-esteem and makes you more response-able. Learn to spot the difference between what you can influence and what you cannot.
Week 9 — The Power of Contribution and Compensation What you get back reflects what you put out — but not always in the way you expect. Learn to read what life is returning to you, and what it might be trying to teach.
Week 10 — The Power of Attraction Your focus, actions, and energy influence who and what you attract. As you grow, what attracts you shifts. Learn to recognize the mirror, navigate the drift, and make choices that draw the people and opportunities you actually want.
Week 11 — The Power of Entropy Everything tends to fall apart — including your dreams, your relationships, your health, and your attitude. Learn to nourish your eight major life assets — body, emotions, mind, spirit, environment, finances, community, and relationships — before entropy gets there first.
Week 12 — The Power of Communication and Understanding Communication breaks down constantly and for completely predictable reasons. Learn to listen with your eyes, hear the emotion beneath the words, and use reflective paraphrasing to understand others and be understood.
Week 13 — The Power of Persuasion and Influence Learn the difference between persuasion and manipulation — and why most common persuasion techniques do more harm than good. Discover nine ethical steps to influence that actually work, starting with understanding what motivates people.
Week 14 — The Power of Indirect Effort The most lasting influence begins with yourself. People tend to live up to the expectations of those they admire — so cultivate your own value and integrity first. Learn to offer context, compassion, and possibility rather than force.
Ready to Begin?
Leave a comment below, or send me a note at DearNavigator@gmail.com — and we’ll start charting your course together.
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Until then — Happy Navigating. — Miss Lynn, et al.
Regarding the topic, how do beliefs shape percepcion?