Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-twenty-one of Operation Achieve Anything. This has been an exciting past couple of weeks where not only has the traffic to this site more than doubled, these new numbers seem here to stay. Though I'm not fully sure if this traffic is made up of returning readers it's beginning to feel like I've leveled up.

Keep in mind, I'm not talking quite the day job numbers, or anywhere close but more than doubled is pretty nice no matter what you have as your jump-off point, especially the more things seem to stabilize or grow to reassure me this isn't an anomaly. To add to the fun, I've also been experiencing quite a bit more interaction with SNL fans who have been sharing my work.

At the same time, this is also growing to feel a little strange as I've been so used to writing to the crickets as if there was not one in the room so as the chirps get replaced with chatter, I start to second guess my work. Then again, there's never been a time in my life where that wasn't the case, even in the middle of my most major of accomplishments.

Commonplace doubts aside, this increase in activity has me doing a lot of daydreaming again, as I first think of, what I hope is, the near future where what little money I'm making through ad will get to the point where it will replace the income I make from my part-time day job. I really think this is achievable because, as I've pointed out in past posts, I take very little resources to get by and could manage my current living condition for less than one thousand dollars a month. I also really think that I could get there, once I get more active at promoting my work.

Either way, quitting the day job feels more like an achievable goal than an actual dream., but thinking about the day where I get there has my next-step fantasizing set to overdrive. It's these fantasies that relate to today's Achieve Anything... assignment, where I was supposed to explore some childish dreams. The example that the book used was based on the quote of the day about replacing all of our weapons with creativity bombs.

The idea was ridiculously convoluted but it was easy to see that it came from a person with a good heart. The scenario reminded me of how often I see pie in the sky Facebook posts that mean well, only to get see the author get crushed in the comments. "Yeah, I used to this that way when I was idealizing teen, but come on, let's get serious," sums up what I usually see. I never understood why so many people like to dump on people who have lofty ideas for solutions opting instead to barrel ahead fixing cracks in our crappy systems using bubble gum and tape and nothing that would implement a real change.

For example, the whole, "Where are you going to get the money for things that we desperately need like health care and education?" Meanwhile, there's plenty of profit being made that's either literally blown up through our bloated defense budget, or hoarded away by corporations who constantly complain about how the economies rough while at the same time they bring in record profits and then ask why the people who really want peace seem so jaded.

I've had idealistic ideas shot down so much that I now just keep them to myself, but still hold on to the dream. My ultimate goal that doesn't deal with my shut-in writer dreams, where I have a Blast From The Past-style underground bunker where I would write my days away, would be to own some sort of business, like a restaurant, and structure the business not to expand but to create a profit-sharing system that's fair for the employees as well as the guests. It would be about making enough money to cover the operating costs and provide a living wage for the staff and anything extra would go toward establishing the same structure in a different industry.

This actually plays into today's assignment that explores Lily Tomlin's quote where she wonders why someone doesn't step in to make a change, only to realize that she is a someone herself. I often feel this way when I start to complain about the way society seems to be heading when I'm not really doing much of anything myself but at the same time, I'm not a person with a platform but hope to be someday.

Of course, I'll delve more into my thoughts on the subject when I check in with tomorrow's update. Until then, it's now time for me to wrap this thing up as I sign of as usual 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.