Good morning Crickets and welcome to the start of week number five of Operation Achieve Anything. I woke extra early this morning in order to get all of my blogging out of the way nice and early so that I can procrastinate the rest of my day away while I attempt to start the second draft of my next novel. I know procrastination is supposed to be bad, but it seems to be part of my day one process when it comes to long format writing.

I really wanted to start writing on Friday night so that I could buckle down and write all the way through the weekend but I’ve been feeling a little down lately so I could muster up the mental energy to get the ball rolling. The fun part is that I’ve got a snake eating its own tail situation going here where I’m feeling down following the completion of my last novel and know that starting the next one is the cure, but I need to be in the right frame of mind to get going.

This is why I need to just sit down with the open document and waste as much time as I need in order to start the process. I rarely get all that much done on my day ones with my writing projects but what I do get to frequently sparks my passion to where I have to write from day two until I finish.

Hopefully, I’ll actually stick to my guns and not just waste away my day without ever getting to any non-blog related writing. Until then, it’s now time to share the results of yesterdays Achieve Anything… assignment. For this assignment, I was supposed to live up to the old bumper sticker and live out the day as if it were my last.

Once again, I get the sentiment of this old saying, but as someone who has self-destructive tendencies, I’ve lived many days as if they were my last because they very well could have been if I didn’t always get so lucky. I said it on this site before, but when I turned nineteen, I found a lump on one of my testicles.

At this time, I was also suffering from deep depression so rather than do anything about it; I decided to let things play out naturally because I didn’t really care if I was alive or dead. Luckily, I was more nihilistic than suicidal so I never actively tried to off myself, but at the same time, I did put myself in dangerous situations where an accident could have happened at any time.

During these days, I was actually living every single moment as if it might be my last and was having a blast in the process. Nothing mattered good or bad, so I frivolously bounced around life without a single thought of any consequences that might come up in the future. Though I had way more fun living like there’s no tomorrow, I’m paying for it now that I know that the lump wasn’t what I thought and my life is continuing on.

Yes, I get the point of the lesson was more to take the time to enjoy the small things while living in the now but as usual, I get hung up whenever anyone uses over-simplified bumper-sticker talk to make happiness seem like it’s easy to obtain.

So that’s what I felt about the overall concept of the assignment. As for the actual task, I was merely supposed to just actively enjoy my day. Even though, as I said in my opening thoughts, I felt a little down, I still enjoyed what I ended up getting into in order to fill the time.

Keep in mind that it was a Sunday where I traditionally lighten my workload, so I don’t consider it as one of the days that I put off starting my novel. Instead, I had a nice walk to the actual store and not the Dollar Tree, where I bought some good food instead of junk to get me by. I then enjoyed my daily viewing of Saturday Night Live. After that, I got caught up on one of my favorite YouTube channels, then called it an early night. While asleep, I had many dreams, which might have been my uplifting reward since I’m feeling lighter spirited today.

Speaking of today, it’s now time to delve into today's assignment which is to look back at the week and think of a time where I actively avoided an opportunity. This should be an easy one because I’ve already touched on the missed opportunity that I plan to explore as part of the post above.

It should be super easy to figure out this missed opportunity if you are playing along at home but either way, I’ll be delving into it when I check in with my update tomorrow. Until then, it’s that time where I sign off 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.