Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Thirteen, Dateline 8-1-2018

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Thirteen, Dateline 8-1-2018

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Thirteen, Dateline 8-1-2018

Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-thirteen of Operation Achieve Anything. I got a good night’s sleep last night and am no longer burnt out to the point where I feel like another bout of depression is setting in. I am still a bit low energy from some of the thoughts that came up over the past couple of days while I was down, but the negative mood, in general, seems to be passing.

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Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Twelve, Dateline 7-31-2018

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Twelve, Dateline 7-31-2018

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Twelve, Dateline 7-31-2018

Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-twelve of Operation Achieve Anything. I’m feeling a bit run down today because my sleep has been terrible over the past couple of days now that I’m back to the point where I can work with some comfort after close to two months of struggling through my sciatica pain in order to make my day. I’ve been so excited to be able to get to the extracurricular project that I’ve been neglecting that I’ve been up all night creating, fueled on manic energy, knowing all along that it was only a matter of time before I would crash.

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Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Eleven, Dateline 7-30-2018

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Eleven, Dateline 7-30-2018

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Eleven, Dateline 7-30-2018

Good evening crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-eleven of Operation Achieve Anything. Here we go with another Monday where I am struggling to officially wake up because, once again, I was up to late last night fantasizing. Also, once again, the nighttime fantasies and not the type of fantasies that you are thinking in your filthy mind… well… not all of them at least.

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Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Ten, Dateline 7-29-2018

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Ten, Dateline 7-29-2018

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Ten, Dateline 7-29-2018

Good evening crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-ten of Operation Achieve Anything. Here we go with another Sunday which means I’m going to try to make this one quick so that I can enjoy the rest of my day doing nothing in order to relax to prepare for the upcoming week. With that said, I’m going to skip the more extended intro and jump right into to discussing the assignments for today.

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Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Nine, Dateline 7-28-2018

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Nine, Dateline 7-28-2018

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Nine, Dateline 7-28-2018

Good evening crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-nine of Operation Achieve Anything. It’s a good thing that the Achieve Anything… book is still focused on fantasy because last night I was fantasizing up a storm leading me to, once again, stay up late enough to see the sunrise. No, not that kind of nighttime fantasizing. The thoughts that filled my head were more along the lines of yesterday’ assignment where I was supposed to share my idealized dreams of success.

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Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Eight, Dateline 7-27-2018

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Eight, Dateline 7-27-2018

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Eight, Dateline 7-27-2018

Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-eight of Operation Achieve Anything. Last night turned out to be a fun one out of the blue and this time there wasn't even any boozing or socializing at all. If you follow this at all, you already know that I've been a bit hobbled by my latest bout with sciatica that's been going on for over a month.

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Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Seven, Dateline 7-26-2018

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Seven, Dateline 7-26-2018

Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred-Seven, Dateline 7-26-2018

Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-seven of Operation Achieve Anything. Last night I was supposed to explore my views on fantasy as the Achieve Anything… book shifts its focus to how an active imagination can be a beneficial tool for accomplishing your goals. The book’s take is that if you can visualize the outcome, then you can use the make-believe hypotheticals to create a roadmap to real-world success. Though I wholeheartedly agree with this concept, my own personal relationship with fantasy it a little rocky.

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Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Six, Dateline 7-25-2018

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Six, Dateline 7-25-2018

Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred-Six, Dateline 7-25-2018

Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-six of Operation Achieve Anything. Yesterday, I was supposed to let curiosity run my day based on the assignment out of the Achieve Anything… book. Between the fact that I’m already entirely on board with the idea that curiosity is a good thing and how vague the task at hand was, I was planning to watch a documentary to cure my curiosity itch and then call it a day.

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Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Five, Dateline 7-24-2018

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Five, Dateline 7-24-2018

Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred-Five, Dateline 7-24-2018

Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-five of Operation Achieve Anything. It feels so nice to finally be back to a place where I can sit and get around to the point where I now have options for how I would like to get through my day. Since I started to experiment with working a graveyard schedule to cope with my slow, bedridden, lying on belly typing, I can now opt to either blog after midnight at the technical start of a new day, or put it off until the morning.

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Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Four, Dateline 7-23-2018

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Four, Dateline 7-23-2018

Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred-Four, Dateline 7-23-2018

Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-four of Operation Achieve Anything. Here we go with another Monday where, once again, my sciatica didn’t allow me to thoroughly enjoy my time off from the day job. I did manage to get caught up on a lot of the optional work that I put off during the phase of my pain where I was bedridden, so I at least have some sense of accomplishment, but other than that, I spent that last couple of days just trying to sleep in hopes that I’d heal.

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Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Three, Dateline 7-22-2018

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Three, Dateline 7-22-2018

Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred-Three, Dateline 7-22-2018

Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-three of Operation Achieve Anything. I think I’m having a Pavlovian response to the fact that it’s Sunday because I’m feeling a bit hungover even though this was the first weekend that I’ve gone sober in the last month and a half or so. I think I’m over the increase in drinking to where I was growing to be an official weekend warrior, sedating myself through the weekend to celebrate the fact that I have no official work to get done.

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Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Two, Dateline 7-21-2018

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Two, Dateline 7-21-2018

Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred-Two, Dateline 7-21-2018

Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-two of Operation Achieve Anything. I can’t believe it’s already Saturday again. That’s one of the things that sucks about having a consistent day job with a Monday thru Friday schedule. Sure, it’s nice to have the consistency and steady pay, but I really hate knowing precisely what day it is while also favoring one day over another. This creates that working for the weekend trope where life is split up to five days devoted to the employer and only two devoted to play.

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Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-One, Dateline 7-20-2018

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-One, Dateline 7-20-2018

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-One, Dateline 7-20-2018

Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-one of Operation Achieve Anything. Yesterday, I was supposed to celebrate the fact that I’ve reached day number two-hundred of the Achieve Anything… book that delves out these assignments by going easy and reflect on my progress and gauge if I’m on the right track. In order to fulfill this task, I’m going to make this one quick to satisfy the go easy aspect and then point out the fact that I’m now earning an income while still, ninety-five percent in charge of my schedule is a sign that I’m on the right track. I don’t know how much the book has actually helped, but here I am.

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Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred, Dateline 7-19-2018

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred, Dateline 7-19-2018

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred, Dateline 7-19-2018

Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred of Operation Achieve Anything. Holy crap, there’s still one-hundred-sixty-five days to go until I’m done with this challenge. That’s fine though, not only because I’m just going to start something new as soon as this one is done, but last night, I was so zoned out while writing that I couldn’t even wait to see what I had to say. That’s not to say that I made any sense, but it did remind me of why I do this as well as where I would like to eventually be as a writer, where I feel like I’m being entertained by the efforts of my own brain to express itself through my pecking hands.

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Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred-Ninety-Nine, Dateline 7-18-2018

Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred-Ninety-Nine, Dateline 7-18-2018

Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred-Ninety-Nine, Dateline 7-18-2018

Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number one-hundred-ninety-nine of Operation Achieve Anything. Just my luck, my back finally starts to feel better to the point where I’m no longer bedridden and guess what happened next? I woke up this morning feeling sick to my stomach that all that I wanted to do was throw up so I could go back to bed. Though I got the throwing up done, by the time I got back to my room, I decided to get the day job over with instead.

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Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred-Ninety-Eight, Dateline 7-17-2018

Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred-Ninety-Eight, Dateline 7-17-2018

Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred-Ninety-Eight, Dateline 7-17-2018

Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number one-hundred-ninety-eight of Operation Achieve Anything. The upswing in life continues as I received my new office chair yesterday afternoon and am happy to share that not only does it sit taller like the chair that I had to return but it’s also nicely padded so that it doesn’t irritate my sciatica like said replaced chair that just turned out to be too firm. That combined with my new fancy/magical fan that blasts me with air from across the room, keeping me nice and cool, I no longer fear what was lining up to be a miserable summer.

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Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred-Ninety-Seven, Dateline 7-16-2018

Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred-Ninety-Seven, Dateline 7-16-2018

Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred-Ninety-Seven, Dateline 7-16-2018

Good morning Crickets. Welcome to day number one-hundred-ninety-seven of Operation Achieve Anything. I am both excited and fearful about today but mainly can't wait to finish things up to go easy. I'm excited by the fact that I've finally been able to sit at my computer again after being bedridden for over a week due to my latest bout with sciatica. That said, I'm still waiting on my new office chair and am feeling some of the pain return that comes from the seat being so low to the ground causing me to have to sit in almost a squatting position and triggers the pain that runs down my left leg.

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Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred-Ninety-Six, Dateline 7-15-2018

Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred-Ninety-Six, Dateline 7-15-2018

Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred-Ninety-Six, Dateline 7-15-2018

Good morning Crickets. Welcome to day number one-hundred-ninety-six of Operation Achieve Anything. It's Sunday and once again I am hungover as I think I've fully evolved into a weekend warrior since starting this day job. I don't know if it's the fact that I now have a steady stream of income or if I feel the need to drink to drown out my thoughts of this stupid job and enjoy my time away from it.

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Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred-Ninety-Five, Dateline 7-14-2018

Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred-Ninety-Five, Dateline 7-14-2018

Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred-Ninety-Five, Dateline 7-14-2018

Good morning Crickets. Welcome to day number one-hundred-ninety-five of Operation Achieve Anything. Thank god it's Saturday because my day job is about to make me lose my fucking mind. I know, that's what day jobs are supposed to do when you're a creative person, but right now, I almost feel like I'm in the middle of a social experiment doing nothing of value to the world but test how far an anonymous employee can push a cog in their virtual machine.

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Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred-Ninety-Four, Dateline 7-13-2018

Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred-Ninety-Four, Dateline 7-13-2018

Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred-Ninety-Four, Dateline 7-13-2018

Good morning Crickets. Welcome to day number one-hundred-ninety-four of Operation Achieve Anything. I'm continuing to love this new split/graveyard schedule especially as I continue to tweak how I plan out my day and grow used to sleeping in until closer to noon once again. Right now, I'm almost at a point where I could potentially finish my evening early enough to still get out of bed in the early AM to give myself a longer day.

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