Operation Achieve Anything: Day Sixty-Nine, Dateline 3-10-2018
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“Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.”
Goodmorning Crickets. Welcome to day number sixty-nine of Operation Achieve Anything. It’s a Saturday, I’ve got things to do, so this one might be a quick one. Actually, to tell the truth, I don’t really have all that much to do, I just woke up early and want to get this over with since I don’t feel all that inspired by either of the assignments. Also, this little white lie is the perfect transition since the topic for both of the assignment’s lessons focus on being honest and living a life with integrity.
Other than tiny lies like the one above, where I will say that I’m busy working on a project when I’m not to get out of something that I’m not interested in, I’ve never been all that much of a liar. Even this example of a lie would probably be the truth since I always have something to work on. I think the biggest reason why I don’t lie, that much, is that I’ve always used what I’m most embarrassed about as fodder for my stories, so I never felt like I had much to hide.
Even when I do lie, I usually make it so obvious as a way to get caught in either a cowardly or comedic way, in order to broach the subject. The sample from the book was a person who called out sick from work only to be caught later on skiing by his boss’s son. I know that there’s got to be at least a frivolous fib like this somewhere in my past but I can’t think of anything major or else I’d already have it locked and loaded into my repertoire of stories.
I guess you could say that my entire life is a lie based on how often I say that I’m fine when I’m not in my efforts to not be an emotional burden but, I’ve never really seemed to get caught so I’m not sure if this example fulfills the assignment. I’m sure people don’t believe because again, my technic is to be obvious about my lies but the fact that I’ve gone this long without ever once being confronted makes it seem like I’m pulling it off.
I wish I had a better story that didn’t end so dark because being caught in a lie can lead to a super fun story. I’m by no means saying that this has never happened to me but I just can’t think of an instance that stands out enough to be noteworthy enough to use. Believe you me, if I had a great example, it would be right in the front of my head since I’d probably already used it in one of my screenplays or stories.
Today’s assignment is another one where I'm just supposed to be getting into a frame of mind without any real task to work on. The lesson pointed out that it was shifting gear from focusing on honesty and that the next run of assignment will be integrity based. Since the integrity assignments are just ramping up, the book wants me to tape the below list to the mirror I use in order to get into the line of thinking the list suggests.
- Have the courage to say no.
- Have the courage to face the truth.
- Do the right thing because it is right.
This feels a bit like common sense to me but we’ll have to wait until tomorrow to see what I manage to come up with in order to report on the task. Until then, it’s now that time 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.
