Day One

Welcome to The Young Napoleon Project

Have you ever felt like you weren’t the person you were supposed to be? Have you ever thought you were destined for more, but never quite been able to achieve it?

I have.

I’ve spent over ten years trying to launch The Young Napoleon Project with little success. While I have a great life, I’m getting older and realizing there are still dreams I want to chase and goals I want to accomplish.

If that resonates with you, then welcome to The Young Napoleon Project. I’m glad you’re joining me on this journey.

Let’s start with who I am.

My name is Brian McClellan. I’m 41 years old, married to my best friend and the love of my life for almost ten years, and together we have two amazing sons. I work a full-time job, but I also have aspirations of becoming a blogger, a self-published author, and, most importantly, the best husband and father I can be.

Through all of my attempts to launch this project, I’ve realized that I’m incapable of treating my life as a collection of separate roles: husband, father, homeowner, employee, coach, volunteer. Those roles—and many others—make up who I am as a whole person.

Because of that, they shouldn’t be treated as separate pursuits.

I’m never going to complete this project if I keep resetting every time I hit a bump in the road or waiting for the perfect moment to start over. I know what I need to do. I just need to start, stay consistent, and keep moving forward.

The idea behind The Young Napoleon Project is simple: to bring every aspect of my life under one umbrella. Health and fitness. Family. Finances. Writing. Organization and productivity. Personal development.

By viewing my life as a single project rather than a collection of unrelated goals, I can work on all of it together and move forward without leaving pieces of myself behind.

This blog is a personal account of that journey.

You can expect honest updates, celebrations of victories, reflections on failures, and lessons learned along the way. You’ll read about my experiences as a father, my attempts to become a writer, and my efforts to become the man I know I can be—one day and one action at a time.

I’m not going to lie to you: I’ve written this post before.

More than once.

I’ve erased it, along with the progress I’d made, whenever life’s inconveniences reared their ugly heads. My goal is not to do that again.

My goal is to be here, present with you, honest about my successes and my failures. I’m not here to preach. I’m here to share what I’m going through while I try to figure it out.

I certainly don’t have all the answers, but I’m going to keep trying, and I’m going to document that journey here.

The Young Napoleon Project isn’t about becoming someone else.

It’s about becoming a better version of who I already am.

And today is Day One.