Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred-Sixty-Eight, Dateline 6-17-2018
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“To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.”
Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number one-hundred-sixty-eight of Operation Achieve Anything. Yesterday, I got a lot of much-needed rest and now feel like my spirits have been reset during the downtime. This is good because I was just saying how I was starting to slip into a negative headspace that didn’t quite feel like a bout of depression but I definitely was finding myself starting to focus on the gloomier side of existence.
While lying around, I thought up the next project that I want to start which has me feeling like my enthusiasm towards life, in general, is improving. Granted, I won’t be able to start this project for quite a while considering that I can barely keep up with my current schedule, especially since this new idea is going to take a lot of time-consuming effort.
That said, though I don’t want to start right away since I can’t guarantee that I would be able to commit to a consistent publishing schedule, I can start to build a stockpile of content so that when I do settle into my current schedule to the point where I can tack on more work, I’ll already have a backlog of content that will make sure that I meet my first several deadlines as opposed to just jumping in like I usually do.
This actually plays into yesterday’s assignment that was based on a quote about how everything is difficult before it becomes an easy task. This is why I’m starting to rethink my plan of attack where I currently like to work on most of my challenges by the seat of my pants with maybe one or two days' worth of safety net content. This is fine once I do fall into a groove and what’s difficult has become easy for me but it often leads to sloppy work at the start when I’m still trying to figure things out.
For this new challenge, I plan to work on it secretly until I work out all of the difficulty bugs before I start to share my progress. That way, I don’t have to worry about any urges to give up for biting off more than I can chew because I would already be in my comfort zone before switching things up and changing the challenge’s status to public. This sort of fulfills the assignment while going above and beyond since the actual task was to simply keep the “things will get easier,” thinking in mind whenever coming face to face with a hurdle and did really suggest a way to put this concept into practice like I did.
Today’s assignment is another task-less one where I am simply supposed to think of the concept of how getting through difficult times is always way more rewarding than a walk in the park existence because rather than just enjoying the view while you walk, difficult times mean that you are really digging in. I wished the book used terms more like that but instead the lesson was almost an exact duplicate of an earlier lesson where we were told to look at hardships as opportunities to grow.
I’ll probably find another roundabout way to complete this challenge because, as is, I find it to be very uninspiring and extremely similar to an earlier task. I’m fine with that though because even though I get frustrated from time to time, the Achieve Anything… book still works pretty well as a writing prompt. With all of that said, it’s now time 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.
