Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Seventy-Seven, Dateline 10-4-2018
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“All serious daring starts from within.”
Good afternoon crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-seventy-seven of Operation Achieve Anything. I’m still trying to settle into my graveyard schedule, but my work is making it very hard. You know how I was saying that I was finally starting to settle because the gig seemed to have solved all the issues that cause the workload generator to constantly be down. Well, after five days of working consistently the tasks have started to dry up once again.
They keep treating it like it’s a system issue, but the more it happens that more I feel that they just don’t have the courage to tell us the truth that the client we’re contracted to is just running out of work for us to do. At least that’s how it feels whenever the way offer nothing but vague explanations while acting as if all is normal. Hell, even yesterday they sent out another warning about not meeting the hours we agreed to when we signed our contract. We’re not meeting the hours because there is no work which heightens my feeling that this is their cowardly way to start a purge as the contract comes to an end.
This actually plays into yesterday’s task where the theme changed from forgiveness to courage as I was supposed to list the people I admire for their courage. This turned out to be tougher than you might think because I don’t always agree with the many of the traditional checklists of what it means to be brave. I don’t really see a hero as someone who’s quick to jump to violence, even if it is the quickest solution to the issue at hand.
To me, people I find to be courageous aren’t always that names that come to mind when you think of the word hero. I see courage in single parents who do whatever they can to provide for their children. I see courage in those who stick to unpopular beliefs in their desperate effort to seek the truth. I see courage in those who just live even though the odds seem stacked against them. Most of all, I see courage in those who put in any effort into bettering their own world with the hopes of bringing as many people with them if they can figure it out.
These people pop up in random places, and though I can’t think of any specific names off the top of my head, I know these people are out there. Today, I’m supposed to pay attention to the moments throughout the day when I feel hit by a flash of courage. Having these moments, I’m then supposed to share how I reacted and whether I answered the call to action or just let it sit there while I build hypothetical outcomes of how things would work if I weren’t such a coward and actually did get myself involved. Finally, I’m supposed to come up with a strategy to be more courageous when the latter situation comes up.
As always, you’ll have to what for tomorrow’s update in order to read how I handle this assignment. Until then, it’s now time for me to wrap this one 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.
