Operation Achieve Anything: Day Twenty-Five, Dateline 1-25-2018
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“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
Alright Crickets, here we go with another day of Operation Achieve Anything. We’re now twenty-five days into this challenge, and I’m starting to get burnt out on all of the Achieve Anything… book’s self-help push to promote happiness as the key to success and can’t wait to move on and start focusing on actually achieving a goal.
Again, I understand this slow-start approach, but as I’ve said in the past, these happiness tasks are pretty standard self-help concepts that I’m already aware of, if not already putting into practice. I thought we were getting somewhere with yesterday’s assignment which was to set a short-term goal to run alongside the primary goal that I set for the end of the year.
The point of this assignment is to keep your mind occupied with fulfilling work to keep you too busy to feel sad, while at the same time giving you a sense that you are making progress toward your big picture goals. For this assignment, the new mini-goal that I’m setting is to complete the second draft of my second novel by my birthday which is the end of the month of February.
When I first started this challenge, I was toying with the idea of attempting to release a readable draft of a new novel that I’ve adapted from one of my old screenplays every six months. My enthusiasm toward this ambitious goal dropped off a bit during the break that I took to recoup some emotional energy that was lost during the editing process of Chuck Norris Would Never Write This Book, A Diary Of Undiagnosed Disorders: Part 1.
I wasn’t sure if I had it in me to jump right in and do it again, especially since I also added Operation Achieve Anything to my plate. Now that I’m almost a full month into this challenge and have settled into a routine, I’m comfortable committing to this new novel writing task because I now know that I have enough time in my day to where it’s a reasonable goal.
For today’s assignment, we’re back in LaLa Land where the Achieve Anything… book is pushing happiness in general while pointing out the old cliché that success doesn’t come from finances but instead, from doing what you love. Though I call this task cliché, that’s only because I’ve been working toward living this way for most of my life and can’t see why this concept is obvious.
The actual task of today’s assignment is to find that something that I love and would like to do to make a living. Spoiler Alert: If I may sound a bit bitter about this piece of homework, that’s because I’ve been doing what I love while creating all of the pages throughout this entire website and though I feel accomplished, I by no means feel like a success and am a bit tired of bumper sticker encouragement.
I’ll delve into this more when I check in tomorrow with my next assignment update. Until then, it’s that time again, where I say, 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.
