Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred, Dateline 4-10-2018
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“Just be yourself.”
Hey Crickets, how are you doing today? We’ve now successfully completed one-hundred days of Operation Achieve Anything!!! Well… successfully completed as soon as I publish this post. Today’s going to be another quick one since once again the Achieve Anything… book’s lessons based on children’s quotes still has me a bit uninspired but, on a side note, I finally feel like I’ve caught up on my sleep to where I no longer have such a cloudy head.
I have to admit, yesterday, I felt so sleep deprived that there were moments where I had back of the mind concerns that I was stroking out since I was jumbling my words so badly. Luckily, I’m used to this dyslexic head that gets much worth when I’m sleepy and struggling to focus which kept the concern in the back of my mind. If I didn’t use to feel that way all of the time, I think I might have been more freaked out.
This current struggle to keep up with my sleep is actually a good thing since it stems from the fact that I’ve gotten more paid work in the last two weeks than I’ve had in a real like time. This extra work combined with my usual schedule where I mainly focus on my own personal projects may be wearing me down a bit from being a rare occurrence but ultimately, until I can make my living one-percent on my own, this would be my ideal schedule to earn money while I play.
This Achieve Anything… book is supposed to help me to get to where I want to be considered the goal that I’m working toward is to learn to earn any form of income that will come in passively thanks to the hard work I’ve already done. At this point, since I’m now one-hundred days into this project, I’m beginning to have my doubts, especially when I keep seeing assignments like today’s that don’t only consist of old advice from other self-help books but are also made up or reworded lesson from early in the book.
Yesterday’s assignment focused on telling the truth with the assignment being to be honest with myself and rate how much I lie. I know that I’ve done this much earlier on because I fully remember sharing how I am so bad at lying that the only time that I tell a fib is when I playfully want to admit to the truth, dropping silly clues while tip-toeing around what I’m really trying to avoid.
I think this comes from the fact that I was raised to love shock humor and I found while listening to Howard Stern that there is nothing more shocking to some than being honest, especially when it comes to things that usually bring people shame. Granted, I no longer do it to be shocking but you can look through this blog where I’ve posted seven days a week going back at least four years and see that I’ve tried to be open and honest in everything that I wrote. The only times where I feel that I lie is when I live up to the advice of, “fake it until you make it.”
Speaking of the, “fake it until you make it,” quote, though the Achieve Anything… book hasn’t used the phrase directly, that’s been the point of more than one or two of the assignments which drives me nuts considering today’s assignment is based on the quote, “Just be yourself.” This advice to “just be yourself” drives me even more crazy than “fake it until you make it,” because if I was truly being myself, I would have given up on everything multiple decades ago.
Once again, I think this is another case where I feel more annoyed as a person who works in the realm of fiction where many lines are blurred to where truth and what’s real can mean many different things. Like how I could probably share a fictional tale with a made up character that would reveal more about the true me than I could ever live out in real life.
That’s not to say that I disagree that there is a benefit to being genuine, I just feel that the, “Just be yourself,” is far too vague of a statement to justify the “Just” that starts in out. I’ll delve more into this tomorrow when I really dig into today’s task. Until then, it’s now time for me to wrap this up by saying, good day and good luck to you and all of your project.
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.
