Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number one-hundred-seventy-seven of Operation Achieve Anything. Here we go with another day, my back is finally started to feel a lot better but it still aches enough to where I’m still aware of the pain and fear the short bursts of sharp pain if I turn weird, stand too long, or simply step too high while I walk. I really hope that this clears up really soon because it’s growing to become a singular focus.

Not only is the pain very distracting, but I’ve also increased my intake of weed to kill said pain, along with some over the counter pain meds that keep me feeling a little loopy. In a way, it’s kind of nice because the pain killing combo has me in a nice headspace where I feel very relaxed mentally but at times I feel too sluggish to write with enthusiasm.

Before this round of back pain started to kick in, I was doing great at waking with enough energy to jump right out of bed to get to work. Now I lay around for at least an hour, bargaining with myself as I work through how I will make my day minus the early morning burst of productivity. It’s still pretty easy to meet my deadline considering I have twelve hours to fit in an eight hour day but I miss the schedule that I was on where I was wrapping everything up by two-thirty in the PM as opposed to working until seven in the PM like I did last night.

Oh well, it is what it is and I am adjusting/recovering and have faith that I’ll figure it out. Now, in order to attempt to keep up with my schedule, let’s dig into the assignments that I’m here to report on. First, for yesterday, I was supposed to not allow my destiny to be played out by chance and be active in my decision making.

Being that I stick to a pretty tight schedule during the week, at least at this time, I don’t really have that many decision to make, at least not when it comes to anything important. Yesterday, the biggest decision I made was to nap after my blog obligations where done instead of waiting for my day to be done because I wasn’t sure if I’d be able to keep my eyes open long enough to make it through my day job.

With all of that said about my day-to-day decision making, I’d say that I’m pretty good at making my own choices and not just leaving my life up to fate. It may not seem that way to an outsider because there is an aspect of my approach to success where I do want to be discovered over aggressively pushing my own work but I have a reason for this.

For one, I still have about five years left of using the blog as a way to create content while I continue to hone my prose writing skills as I continue my transition from screenwriter to novelist. I would also prefer to be discovered over being sold because with discovery I would have the power to stick to my guns as to how I want to tell a story instead of having a publisher’s idea of how to make money be the driving force. I need this freedom, especially considering that I’m not a huge fan of traditional/marketable structure.

If I don’t end up making it, I’d be fine as long as I continue to grow as a writer on my own terms. Again, when I say “making it” I mean getting to the point where my writing alone could replace a full-time job and nothing over the top like becoming a millionaire. That said, it would be awesome to be filthy rich considering that I don’t have any kids to worry about so I could live a Brewster’s Millions style life, only I’d be burning through all of my riches in an effort to share the wealth and not just playing a game in order to win even more financial gains.

Today’s assignment is another generic one that repeats the message of why put off until tomorrow what you can start today. Yeah, it didn’t use those terms and the last time this was the lesson’s theme it was more in reference to procrastination while today’s focus is more learning from your mistakes. The actual assignment is to note the things that I did wrong today and make the corrections to right those wrongs moving on.

As always, you’ll have to wait for tomorrow’s update in order to read what I have to say on this subject. Until then, it’s now that time for me to wrap this thing 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.