Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred-Eighty-Seven, Dateline 7-6-2018
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“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number one-hundred-eighty-seven of Operation Achieve Anything. Today is the first day in a really long time, probably the first time since starting my SNL challenge, where I wish I had it in me to just say, "fuck it" and take the entire day off from everything. I mean, yesterday, it took over twelve hours to complete who I usually finish in six or seven.
Between the back pain, that's gotten so bad that I can no longer sit, and the heat which always makes me completely miserable, I just don't want to do this again until I heal enough to where I can get back to writing in a seated position. Right now, I have to type while laying on my stomach and resting on my elbows which is fine for web searching but when it comes to a full day of writing, it's most of the levels of hell from Dante's Inferno.
For one, my laptop really sucks and there is a slight delay after typing or clicking as needed. Add to that the fact that it's not an efficient way to type as I feel like a t-rex the way I have to twist my wrist to type, slowing down the process even more. Then there's the actual pain. Though I do feel ten times better than when I'm sitting the pain is still there, acting up in the most inopportune moments. To tie a bow on it all this killer combo has me so frustrated that I've had an extra short fuse toward even the slightest thing that goes wrong or any person who bugs me.
I wish I could just sleep through the entire weekend to wake on Monday refreshed and healed. Of course, this probably won't be the case but I'm going to give it a shot. I apologize in advance if the work on this page, over the next couple of days feels even extra rush. So with that, let move on to discuss the assignments that I'm here to report on.
Yesterday, the Achieve Anything... book's quote of the day was an interest one, noting that we are drowning in information yet starving when it comes to actual knowledge. I've been thinking about this for many years, disappointed by the fact that we now have so much access to information yet at the same time we seem to be devolving instead of moving on. Oh, how I wish we would use the power of knowledge to make life easier for everyone instead of continuing old wars from back when most of the planet's population was Illiterate.
I also wish that I had the faith that we'd eventually figure it all out but based on the current political climate, I'm almost certain it will never happen within my lifetime. It's hard not to be hit with nihilistic depression from time to time from knowing that there are solutions to issues that will never see the light of day because there's no profit in solving anything and money's more important than anything.
We're still stupid cavemen only now we have fancy phones. That kind of transitions into yesterday's task where I was supposed to muse on the difference between information and knowledge. To me, information is nothing more than a box filled with multiple puzzles with all of the pieces just mixed together and knowledge is the ability to track down and piece together bits that actually fit together instead of using brute strength to force the fit.
For today's assignment, I'm supposed to explore how well I trust myself while thinking of ways to be more open to listening to my instincts even when I think that I may be wrong. Of course, you'll have to wait for tomorrow's update because at this point, I don't even know how I plan to handle this one. Oh well, that's all I got. With that, it's now time to wrap this thing up 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.
