Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred-Eleven, Dateline 4-21-2018
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“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination.”
Good afternoon Crickets. Welcome to day number one-hundred-eleven of Operation Achieve Anything. It’s Saturday and I’m feeling a little spent so I’m going to take advantage of the fact that I’m a little ahead of the game and spend the day slacking off. That’s part of the reason I’m getting such a late start. Thankfully, I recently made a vow to go easier on the weekends because I’d really be beating myself up right now for neglecting my work.
Though my energy is low, this time it’s not due to a lack of enthusiasm. No, this time I’m struggling to feel uninspired because when I woke up the first time this morning, I had no intentions for this day to go quite as easy as it’s turning out to be but once I fully committed it was game-on for me as I rolled over and went back to sleep. Now I’m stuck in full-blown slacker mode, which is a wonderful place to be.
This intro doesn’t transition into either assignment that I’m here to report on, so, please excuse my sloppy switching of subjects. For yesterday’s assignment, I was supposed to explore the quote of the day that talked about breaking down impossible tasks into bite-sized chunks. If you want more details on how I handled this task, check out yesterday’s post where I broke down the process of my approach towards cleaning my room.
In general, I’ve always been a huge fan of breaking down hard tasks to make them more manageable which I feel is a skill that I really honed back when I was working in the reprographics industry, AKA when I was a copy machine operator. You see, I worked alone on the graveyard shift at Kinko’s. This meant that no one was there to judge what I did with my time so my major goal was to clear out the work queue as fast as I could in order to have an easy second half of my night.
Being alone, I also had full control of all of the machines in the store, so I would start out by grabbing all the large jobs that didn’t take much of my attention but had super long run times to keep as many machines running on their own while I took one machine to work on the jobs that needed my undivided attention. I never ran from the tough jobs like most of the day crew would do, in fact, I always attacked those first in order to race to the point where I legitimately had nothing to do so I couldn’t get in trouble for slacking.
After I figured this technique out in the photocopy world, I brought it into every aspect of my life to where I often joked how I was a whittler, whittling all of my work away until everything was done, because ultimately, I’m determined to always be caught up or ahead of any deadline to ease my level of stress. Even though I’m usually a stressed out mess when I am in production mode.
Speaking of determination, today’s assignment is to explore how determination acts as the fuel to make the impossible possible. Once again, I feel like this website alone is enough to showcase that I am already aware of this concept and have been putting it to use for years. That said, I still have a lot to say on the subject, but you’ll have to wait for tomorrow’s update to read the thought that I plan to share. Until then, it’s time for me to sign off 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.
