Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred-Eighty-Two, Dateline 7-1-2018
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“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.”
Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number one-hundred-eighty-two of Operation Achieve Anything. It’s Sunday, and I’m back to my regular routine following another lost Saturday. Though I still drink about two or three times a month, it’s been a while since my last blackout especially while it was still early. Typically, when I day drink, I pace myself to keep a steady buzz for an extended period as opposed to power drinking like I do when it’s the end of my day, and I just want to sleep.
I think what ended up happening was that I woke up in the early AM after an early booze-fueled slumber from Friday night. It was too early to wake, but at the same time, I wasn’t tired enough to go back to sleep so I must have decided to polish off the second half of my box of wine which led then led me to black out before breakfast time.
Aside from the fact that I woke feeling like garbage to where I had to throw up, I’m fine with how things played out because my back feels ten times better from spending hours just laying around. I’m pretty sure that if I had stayed up, I would have spent all day sitting in my chair which I think is a major contributing factor in how this pain started in the first place.
Today, I plan to do more laying around once I wrap up my blogging obligation, so with that, let's dig into the assignments that I’m here to report on. Yesterday, I was supposed to rethink how I feel about uncertainty with the book suggesting that it’s not to be fear but to be looked at as a time to be open to new opportunities with everything up in the air.
I’m already ahead of the game when it comes to this assignment because I’ve never been all that afraid of uncertain time, in fact, it almost feels like the chaos of not knowing what tomorrow will bring is what I consider my comfort zone. I’ve never really liked having a set schedule, and though I’ve settled into a very predictable pattern over the past couple of years, I still prefer the feeling of flying through life by the seat of my pants.
Today’s assignment carries on the certainty theme only with the focus being on the benefits of being a doubtful thinker. According to the lesson, doubt doesn’t have to be such a negative thing because it actually means that you are exploring an issue from multiple angles while being certain can lead to closed-minded thinking. I think this is why I never one-hundred percent agree with anything taught from this self-help style book that oversimplifies its advice with bumper sticker talk that may be motivational but isn’t always as cut and dry as the book may claim.
Of course, I’ll delve deeper into this subject when I check in with tomorrows update. Until then, it’s time for me to watch and review my next episode of Saturday Night Live so that I can crawl back in bed. Now it’s that 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.
