Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred-Forty-Eight, Dateline 5-28-2018
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“The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.”
Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number one-hundred-forty-eight of Operation Achieve Anything. It’s Memorial Day and though technically, I think, I’m allowed to take the day off but the new project that I’m working for is absolutely terrible and dispersing information and have yet to chime in with our options. It doesn’t really matter because I need the money so I’d work either way but I’m still frustrated by this departments inability to communicate when all of the other work I’ve done through this company has gone pretty smooth.
Speaking of frustration, I’m also pretty frustrated by the lesson that led up to yesterday’s assignment where the Achieve Anything… book used Billy Graham as their example of how material wealth shouldn’t be the focus of the goals that you try to achieve. Meanwhile, this man died with $25 million dollars in his bank account that he got from his flock, who I’m willing to bet many still struggle to make ends meet.
Though I know that the pastor of the corner church isn’t living high on the hog and don’t contribute to my issue with this religious hypocrisy but I do find these mega-church swindlers to be some of the most offensive people in the world. I just can’t see how these people can preach about the good deeds they expect from their followers, while they sit in their mansion, hoarding resources for themselves that could/should be redistributed in an effort to create the peace-loving planet that they promise.
I don’t know what’s more confusing to me, a person who can go on stage and preach to desperate people about how money is the root of all evil and then go on to insist they handle this source of evil over to build his own personal wealth or the person in the audience who’s fully on board with this sociopath and treat him as an equal to the God that he’s just supposed to be teaching about. Again, I’m mainly talking about the megalomaniacs who run these mega-churches and not the humble believer that is truly trying to do what’s best for his flock.
Either way, I found that using Billy Graham for this anti-materialistic example felt like an absolute joke that I’m not willing to buy so I didn’t think much of this lesson. That said, the overall message was good because after the hypocritical Billy Graham praising, the end message was how when you leave material goods as your legacy, those goods will someday be gone but if you are more thoughtful towards what you leave as your legacy, you can live on forever.
The actual assignment was to write about a person in my life who left me a rich legacy. Unfortunately, nobody comes to mind since I feel like I’ve lived my life with such little guidance, I’ve always felt like I was on my own without anyone leaving me anything. The closest I can think of is my late uncle who was fully committed to his art until the day he died. I feel that I’ve inherited the same blend of stubbornness and dedication, but part of me feels like we were both driven by the same sort of curse.
Then again, that’s looking a legacy as if it is something handed down. I once heard someone say, “Those you lose contact with are basically dead,” they then went on with the usual advice of treating people well while they're around but it was the first part that really stuck with me. This was when I was young before everyone had a computer at a time when your past didn’t haunt you on social media when there was a bit of reality to the sentiment of this statement. Though I’ve always felt a bit detached and alone, I’m also aware that both living and dead, many of these people from my past have left their legacy within my heart to then memorialize in my stories.
Alright, this assignment’s gone off the rails, so let’s move on to today task at hand. Today, I’m supposed to be the hero in my own life story. No, I’m not supposed to be the protagonist in order to take control of my story, I’m supposed to think like I’m a hero in tights and share the code I intend to live by. Spoiler Alert: this may end up being another negative one.
It really could go either way but we’ll see how I end up interpreting the task at hand when I check in with tomorrow’s update. Until then, it’s now time for me to wrap this thing 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.
