Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred-Seventy-Eight, Dateline 6-27-2018
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“What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.”
Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number one-hundred-seventy-eight of Operation Achieve Anything. Once again, I’m getting a later start than usual due to the PM pain meds that I’m taking to help me get through my latest bout of sciatica. Though it’s been really nice to get the all of this extra sleep, I don’t like the anxiety that it creates in me as I feel more rushed to make my day. With that said, I’d rather have a week filled with anxiety while my back feels better every day than to wake up extra early in pain with no idea as to whether or not my back will ever feel any better again.
I’m also not a huge fan of how all of this extra sleep seems to put my mind in such a relaxed state that I go beyond just feeling good to the point where I start to feel lethargic. I’ve never felt all that creative whenever I’ve had a well-rested head because there is nothing that I’m trying to escape from. I feel way more productive when my mind is on either extreme of my bi-polar range. It’s as if being balanced leaves me with nothing to say because I just want to enjoy the moment instead of trying to break every single thing down.
Speaking of which, it’s now time to break down the assignments that I’m here to report on. First off, yesterday I was supposed to learn from the mistakes that I made throughout the day. As I said in yesterday’s post, this is going to be a difficult one, not because I do no wrong but because my shut-in lifestyle makes these wrongdoings unrecognizable to anyone else. I mean, now, a bulk of my mistakes are either typos or personal choices where I’m focused on the wrong things at the wrong times and I make micro-adjustments to right these wrongs all throughout the day.
Sure, I could go more grandiose and focus on more big-picture aspects of life, like why I’ve opted to become a shut-in in the first place but at this time, I’m still putting the pieces of my shattered life back together to get back to the point where I even care about correcting miss steps in the first place. Right now, I’m still stuck with an, “it is what it is,” mentality toward the flaws that I find in life but I’m in a much better place than I was on this date last year. That’s not to say that I’m avoiding the issue, and I’m not passing it off through procrastination, I just have bigger fish to fry at this point.
Today’s assignment is more of the same where the Achieve Anything… book claims that anything is possible if you just chose life over anything else. I get frustrated by this sort of advice because there is more to a successful life than simply choosing success no matter how nice it may sound that any struggles are just in my head. Sometimes, there are outside circumstances that hold people back that they have absolutely no control of no matter how empowering it may seem to preach that we’re all in full control of our fate.
Of course, I’ll delve more into my thoughts on the topic when I check in with tomorrow’s update. Until then, it’s now that 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.
