Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred-Six, Dateline 4-16-2018
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“Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.”
Good morning Crickets. Welcome to day number one-hundred-six of Operation Achieve Anything. Since yesterday’s assignment centered around explore my thoughts on enthusiasm in almost the same exact way as the day before, I’m just going to jump right in and continue to share my thoughts on the subject and consider this done. For a quick recap of what I got into in yesterday’s post, I fully agree that enthusiasm might be the most important ingredient when it comes to success.
I also share how I recently added advertising to this site and now I’m passively making a few bucks a day, passive in the program that I’m signed up to does all of the work as far as curating ads and figuring out where to place them. I felt I needed to clear that up because just the other day I was explaining this to a friend when I realized that there nothing passive about this venture, considering how I’ve worked on this site almost every single day for going on five years and up until now, I have yet to earn a dime for my efforts.
Again, I’m currently only making a few bucks a day but this is enough to make me feel like I’m on the right path. As much as I can’t wait to earn enough to consider this site my legitimate day job, if that ever comes to be, I’m more excited about this promising bit of progress because it’s brought back a genuine sense of enthusiasm that’s been missing from my life for quite some time, ever since I lost the sense of who I was trying to be.
Yeah, I’ve been enthusiastic about the challenges that I do for this blog since it’s one of the few things left in my life that make me happy. However, as far as life in general goes, I’ve felt more like I’ve been in fake it until you make it mode ever since I stopped working in film and my venture back into the nine-to-five world almost killed me.
I’ve always had so much faith in my writing in general, and am most confident in my concepts but any effort that I ever put into the business side of my craft left me feeling like a hopeless mess. This made me feel like a man falsely imprisoned because I felt there should be an easy way out yet there I was stuck desperately trying to plot my escape from this shitty life.
In the past, I would get burst of optimism when someone would be interested in one of my scripts or we’d be actively shooting one of my short films where I thought for sure the work would get in the right hands who took pleasure in handling the business aspects that I’ve always failed out. It wasn’t during these times where I would build up a false hope that I was on my way which would then trigger a manic episode as my enthusiasm grew out of control.
I think the problem’s always been that I have such a vivid imagination that, in my head, I’m actually living out these dreams while under constant attack by reality. This would cause me to push back and double down on my delusions since there is nothing that I hate more than the real world. After so many battles the real world eventually won which is what led to my mini mental breakdown.
Now that I’ve been living in hiding while trying to plot my next move, I’m hoping that this tiny victory will bring back my enthusiasm for playing the game without going overboard. I feel that this is possible because this current bit of progress is grounded in reality where I am still fully in charge. I think the problem with me hoping that I’d find a creative partner who would take the ball and run with it when it comes to the business side, is that I had no evidence of any progress or lack thereof so my mind would go wild with the possible outcomes until I learned that we failed.
In all honesty, because of this rocky past, I eventually grew to fear enthusiasm because even though the ups were super fun, there was nothing really fun about the self-destructive crash. I even noticed now that my hopes are more grounded in reality there’s a bit of manic energy that pops it’s ugly head as I start to spend any future earning in my head. Then again, I’ve been broke so long that I do a lot of shopping in my head whenever I earn an income.
Alright, that’s all I’ve got for yesterday’s task now let’s move on to today's. Once again, the book is still focused on enthusiasm and are linking it to creativity. Lessons like these crack me up because they make it more obvious that this book is aimed at business types because it makes such a hard-sell about how creative thinking isn’t just useful for the arts.
As I said at the top of this post, I have a lot to say on the topic of enthusiasm but you’ll have to wait for tomorrow's update to read how I complete this assignment. Until then, it’s now 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.
