Operation Achieve Anything: Day Ninety-Five, Dateline 4-5-2018
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“I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It’s seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It’s seeing what other people don’t see and pursuing that vision.”
Good morning Crickets, or should I say good night? It’s technically tomorrow considering the date changed at midnight but I’m also still up from when I originally woke up at six thirty in the AM. I guess it doesn’t really matter since chances are, you won’t be reading this until I’ve already crashed and had already woken again. Who am I kidding? Chances are if you are reading this, it’s off in the distant future and you perusing my work after one of my other projects became a hit. That, or you're not reading this at all since you are a Cricket after all, there to remind me of the noisiness that comes with silence.
Did I mention that it’s day number ninety-five of Operation Achieve Anything? This is going to be a quick one because I really need to go to bed to get some sleep for tomorrows festivities. It seems like every other week anymore that my oldest sister decides to come down for a visit, which is perfectly fine but it does lead me to have to double down on my work in order to free up enough time to hang out. I was on a great pace to do so until my computer crashed so hard that it took me over fourteen hours to get it back up and running.
This kind of computer problem kind of fit in with the past several assignments that all had to deal with how I go about accepting failure. I related to these failure assignments it almost felt like a cake walk to get through them. Speaking of walking, yesterday’s assignment was based on a quote about not looking down when you walk because you’ll only miss the amazing things to be seen during your journey.
In other words, in order to achieve success sometimes, you have to throw caution to the wind and just go for it. This is another idea that I really relate to, especially when I was young and did very little planning at all because I was just interested in seeing where the world would take me. I ended up in may random situation doing many random things and had a blast the entire time that I was going through this phase.
Though I wouldn’t say that I’ve settled in, the years of going with the flow caused me to hit as many rocks as the calm spots I hit for a while. Now, I would love to be the free spirit I once was but it’s just not all that easy when you’re old. Granted, I still take risks by avoiding every other aspect of my life in order to focus on the things that I really love and don’t see this outlook changing anytime soon.
I feel if I were able to figure out how to pull in an income from my writing, that might free me up to go back to taking more risks in other areas of my life. Either way, I understand the point of the assignment but I do feel that it should have a warning that you might want to avoid taking this carefree approach towards chasing your goals too far to where the idea of safety becomes the scariest thing in the world, which might be how far I’ve taken it.
For today’s assignment, I’m just supposed to pay attention to the world around me because as the quote of the day says there actually is no such thing as luck but instead these magical moments come from people seeing the opportunities to create the illusion of luck when really their just being present. At least that’s what I’m taking the assignment to be since the book doesn’t strictly lay-out what it expects of me like it does with most of the other assignment.
I don’t even know how I plan to navigate this one to turn it into a completed task so we’ll all have to wait for tomorrow’s update to see what I manage to come up with. Until then, it’s now that time for me to say, 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.
