Operation Achieve Anything: Day Eighty-Three, Dateline 3-24-2018
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“Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.”
Good morning Crickets. Welcome to day number eighty-three of Operation Achieve Anything!!! For those of you reading this in the future, it’s a Saturday so this post might be a little brief because as soon as I’m done with my blogging obligations, I’m going to take a break for the rest of the day. As I said in yesterday’s post, I think I’m going to try and put in a little extra effort during the week in order to take weekends off, or at least make it so that any weekend work is optional.
Right now, I pretty much do the same exact thing every single day of the week in order to meet the deadlines that I’ve set for myself, but there are ways for me to get ahead of my schedule in order to partake in some nonblog-related fun. That’s not to say I don’t enjoy what I do but since I do have two daily projects running consecutively, it’s hard not to feel burnt out every now and again.
I’m even fine with this burnt out feeling because it’s the tradeoff I made when opting to live a non-traditional life. This plays perfectly into today’s assignment where I was supposed to examine the quote, “As you make your bed, so must you lie on it.” As I said in yesterday’s post where I fulfilled the task at hand regarding, “cleaning up your own backyard,” I’ve always aimed to live untraditionally and just want to be left alone so I leave others alone in return. I mention this because I chose this approach fully aware that I could fail.
Because of this realistic awareness of potential failure, I’ve always been ready and willing to lie in any bed that I land in throughout the ups and downs of going through life chasing dreams. I feel like my biggest pressure comes from how I think other’s judge me for this choice even though I have absolutely no one in my life who has ever been confrontational with me over how I live my life. Even these thoughts about what others think of my starving artist lifestyle are understandable to me and I think that I have them because if I was attempting to achieve normalcy, I’d definitely agree.
If you read these posts on any regular basis, you may be thinking that some of my complainings might contradict the idea that I accept the bed that I lie in as I share how I wish I was further along in the process of dream achievement but that’s just because the current state of the bed that I made isn’t perfect, it’s just good enough for now. Sometime I just can’t help but lie in my dream bed as I fantasize about where I want to be.
This kind of makes a good transition into sharing today’s assignment where I’m supposed to break the mold in an effort to avoid being average. For the actual assignment, the Achieve Anything… book wants me to break from the pack in order to track down an interest and try something new. This is pretty much a repeat of the earlier assignment which led me to learn how to play the bass, but I think I can figure something new to share.
As always, you’ll have to wait for tomorrow’s update to figure out what that new something is. Until then, it’s time for me to wrap this up 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.
