Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Seventy-Five, Dateline 10-2-2018
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“Forgiveness is not an occasional act. It is a permanent attitude.”
Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-seventy-five of Operation Achieve Anything. It’s now time to get back in my groove. My work situation has stabilized to where the system’s been consistently up for the past several days, easing some of the stress that the lack of task was just my jobs chicken shit way letting us know that the assignment was almost over. It now seems like I’m safe for at least a couple of months.
Last night was my first attempt to get back into a graveyard schedule since I couldn’t stand how being awake during normal human hours had me working right up to all of my final deadlines for the day. Minus working overnight, I usually wake and blog until about one or two, which them means I have to rush to fit in the four to six hours of paid work taking me right up to when I head in to watch prime time TV with my family. When TV’s done, I would then prep myself for some sleep.
When I work graveyard, I actually start my day right after watching TV with my family. First, I watch and review the current episode of SNL that I’m one taking me up until midnight where my Fitbit resets, and I then begin to walk, completing the SNL content during my breaks from pacing around the room. I do this until two-o’clock in the AM when I then switch to the day job because, for whatever reason, they don’t like us working an hour before or two hours after the day change.
By this time, it’s somewhere between six and eight o’clock in the AM depending on when I actually start to work. If I feel I have the energy, I’ll then either write my Daily Breaker post or finish and publish my SNL content as needed. If not, I just get high and go to sleep. Then when I awaken somewhere between noon and two o’clock in the PM and then have until somewhere around seven o’clock to wrap things up. Since this schedule usually leaves me with an hour or two’s worth of work, this frees up the rest of my day to either play or focus on behind-the-scenes tasks that I’m desperate to get to.
This works some much better than the traditional schedule where, by the point of the night where TV watching time is over, I find that I’m so exhausted that I end up putting in four hours worth of slacker effort to get me ready for bed. That said, I can’t wait to get done with the plethora non-glamorous website tweaking tasks because the traditional schedule is a nice one to stick to when not having to think of optimizing my time.
I also feel that I’m crawling out of the mini funk that the Achieve Anything… book sent me into with this latest theme based on forgiveness. As I said yesterday, it’s not that I’m against the idea of forgiveness, it’s just that I’ve already accepted all that’s happened and I’m now trying to move on, and I think that the timing might be too close to bring everything up all again. This may be a sign that my forgiveness doesn’t run deep enough and maybe it’s not, I’m just too focused on stabilizing my career and living situation before I can even think about fixing my failed former life.
Yesterday’s lesson kid of help in that it reminded me that forgiveness doesn’t have to mean that everything goes back to being the way that it used to be. Forgiveness can purely be about letting it be known that any hard feelings have been let go, making both parties free to move on. This is the other reason I’ve struggled with the past few tasks because I feel that these old issues have been resolved and revisiting them for this book created a speed-bump for me moving forward.
Today’s assignment is still playing off the forgiveness theme and actually negates the answer that I gave for the last assignment by pointing out that forgiveness isn’t a one-time thing and that you need to continue to put effort maintaining any mending techniques that have been made. I do admit that this is something I need to work on over just trying to live by the “it is what it is” approach to life where I’m more comfortable not getting close to anyone.
Don’t worry, I’ll delve deeper into this subject tomorrow when I check in again with my next update. Until then, it’s now time for me to sign off 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.
