Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred-Twenty, Dateline 4-30-2018
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“The burden becomes light that is shared by love.”
Good afternoon Crickets. Welcome to day number one-hundred-twenty of Operation Achieve Anything. How is your Monday going so far? Me, I’m feeling fine but am in a bit of a limbo mode as I wait to see whether or not I landed the permanent part-time job that I was contacted on Friday about. The fact that the company that contacted me is the same one that hires me regularly for one-off jobs has me feeling confident but at the same time, it wouldn’t be the first time that I felt I was a perfect fit for a permanent position only to end up getting turned down.
Since I have no real sense of whether or not I’ll be starting work within a couple of days, I find it hard to nail down my schedule which in turn makes it hard for me to plan my day. I also find that while I’m in this limbo made while I wait for answers, I find it hard to focus on the non-obligatory work that I would like to do because I end up getting lost in fantasy about the thing I will do if life were to actually go my way. Not only that, but I also don’t want to dive into anything new or big that I might have to stop in order to earn more pay.
Thankfully, according to the follow-up email I received, I should be out of limbo within the next couple of days. I look forward to the answer either way because no matter how things turn out, I can’t wait to figure out my next move down life’s little path. This leads me to yesterday’s assignment which was day number four of the Achieve Anything… book’s section on endurance.
Yesterday’s lesson focused on how endurance actually equals victory because if you endure all the way until the end that means you actually won. It’s impossible to brag about endurance when the story ends on the note that you couldn’t keep up so you quit. I feel that fact that I am sticking to my guns when it comes to only wanting part-time work until I manage to make a living through my writing is enough to show my level of endurance to where I’m willing to suffer until I get where I want to be.
Sometimes I feel that I talk a big game about how hard I try while, at the same time, being open about my avoidance of the business side of art. I can see how this may seem like I’m not actually giving it my all since the business side is required to make my hobby a job, but the way I see it, I’m still working on honing my craft and any effort to advance businesswise might be me jumping the gun.
Though I feel like I’m close to making a few bucks through my blog, I still feel years away from making a dime from my novels. Some may see this as fear but I’ve always felt that even though I’m proud of my work, I’ve always felt that it needs a little help. This is why I started in the collaborative world of screenwriting. Now that I want to venture out and be on my own, I know it will take me some time to cross over into writing more standard prose.
Again, I’m willing to stick to this lifestyle until I either figure it out or die. If that’s not endurance, I don’t know what is. This kind of leads into today’s assignment about how these large tasks can become much easier when broken down into smaller chunks to then deal out to others for help. The assignment for the day is to reach out and help someone else with one of their smaller chunks.
As a shut-in this might seem a little difficult but you’ll have to wait for tomorrow’s update in order to see how I figured it out. 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.
