Hello Crickets, I started today with a flashback to my high school days by waiting until the very last second to finally get to my assignment. Luckily, unlike with school, I’m in control of the rules and have absolutely no problem with fudging around with my deadlines with my definition of a day.

If you’ve followed my past challenges, you might know that I don’t consider a day over until I lie down and go to sleep. This rule came about because I used to stay up until three or four in the AM and I wouldn’t even get started on my tasks until somewhere around midnight. For Operation Achieve Anything I’ve extended my deadline to be right up until I write the post to share the assignment’s findings.

Yesterday’s assignment was to use my superpowers from yesterday’s challenge to build up the nerve and reach out to someone that I’ve been meaning/wanting to contact. This assignment was tough for me since I struggle when it comes to reaching out to other. I’m fully confident in my efforts when the task at hand wholly falls on me, but I’ve never had much luck at getting others to play along.

As I first read the assignment, it didn’t take long for a couple of ideas to pop into my head. Sure, I should just contact everyone from the mental list that I created, which might be why it was so hard to narrow it down to just one. It didn’t take long for me to narrow it down to one, but then, as the day went on, I started to questions if I was ready to deal with the outcome if this approach actually worked.

This original plan involved reaching out to strangers in general in an effort to find a collaborative partner. Though this is something I still plan to do, I wasn’t quite sure if I liked my approach, so I decided to put it off. I then spent most of the evening going back and forth as to whether or not to commit when I remembered an earlier Achieve Anything… assignment where I had to reach out to someone, that I left with the ball sitting on my side of the net.

The conversation in question goes back to when I was seeking contacts for a potential writing mentor. One person replied back in a way that left me wondering if I was clear in what I was asking for and rather than attempting to clear up any confusion, I simply ran away. That’s why I decided to face my fear of looking dumb by following up on their response with a clarifying response of my own.

Right now, the ball is in their court, so I have nothing to do but wait… well… at least as far as this assignment goes. That said, their response is not required in order to consider this task to be a success!!!

Today’s assignment is a lesson in positive thinking and an effort to get me to stop thinking like Eeyore. It’s funny how the book uses this character as their example since I’ve been fighting my Eeyore tendencies throughout my entire life. This is how I learned to wear happy masks since I never wanted to be seen as a downer or worse yet, be seen as a complete bore but I’m not sure how well that worked.

How’s that for a cliffhanger? I’ll go into more details of my disguised Eeyore days along with the rest of the assignment when I check in with tomorrow’s update. Until then, It’s now that time for me to wrap things up by saying, good day and good luck to you and all of your projects.

Talk to you soon.

Sincerely,

The Wicker Breaker

P.S. Below are links to my novel, which I plan to promote as part of Operation Achieve Anything, as well as a link to where you can buy the book that is providing the structure to this project in case you would like to purchase it in order to play along.