Operation Achieve Anything: Day Forty-Five, Dateline 2-14-2018
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“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
Good morning Crickets. Welcome to day number forty-five of Operation Achieve Anything. Thankfully today’s assignment has nothing to do with the concept of less talk, more rock, or that might have been the final straw with this challenge. Again, I feel that this is a great rule to live by but the fact that the book had six lessons in a row with the same reworded lesson was driving me out of my mind.
It didn’t help that the assignments were also the same in that they simply asked me to think of a new task and start doing it. In fact, yesterday I was asked to list three more things that I could start and then get to it. Keep in mind, I’m already doing this challenge that you’re reading, I’m still actively working on my SNL challenge, I’m learning to play bass, trying to promote my first novel while rewriting the next one, all this while starting a new diet and cramming in paid work with any extra time.
I can’t keep adding things to my list of things to do or else I will burn myself out and end up doing nothing. Yeah, I could keep coming up with meaningless tasks that I can complete in a day but then that cuts into the time that I could be doing something more important. This has been the main reason I’ve been frustrated with the less talk, more rock lessons because I’ve been silently rocking for so long and the repetitiveness of the book's advice had me feeling the need to defend my efforts when productivity isn’t an area where I feel I need any help.
Fortunately, today’s assignment has moved on to another topic. Unfortunately, this assignment focuses on interpersonal relationships which is an area of my life that I’ve been struggling with ever since leaving Seattle. It’s hard for me to relate to these lessons because I can’t help but think of how I used to be versus how I am now that I’ve committed to a life of a shut-in. Luckily, at this point, I’m just supposed to observe how I relate to other and how I make them feel because I’m not sure if I’m ready for more interactive tasks, which I’m willing to bet will show up in tomorrow’s assignment.
Oh well, we’ll see what I come up with for tomorrows update. Until then, it’s now that time where I finish this off with my usual sign off of, 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.
