Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Thirty-One, Dateline 8-19-2018
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“Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.”
Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-thirty-one of Operation Achieve Anything. Sorry, this post might be a little scattered and quick because my heads still a little loopy from the events from last night that following the partaking of a powerful payday edible. It cracks me up how something so natural gets treated like such an evil drug. Meanwhile, when I go overboard with my medical marijuana to celebrate the weekend, I feel a closer connection to the Earth as I tune into nature documentaries and get lost in fantasy, as opposed to when I hit the bottle too hard and get all surly and filled with self-hate.
I also prefer this form of morning-after buzz, where mentally, I may not be able to fully focus, but physically I’m fine, over a pounding headache and constant feeling that I am about to puke. I wish that I could go into more detail about when I learned from last night visit to deep space but trying to recap the stoner thoughts that occupied my mind feels like it would be a waste of time, like trying to describe a crazy dream.
It would be one thing if it were a night filled with silly thought, then I might be more inclined to attempt to share the experience, but this was more of a self-reflective night that would take more energy than I have at this time to unpack in a way that makes sense. I may revisit this night sometime in the future, but more likely I’ll just hope that the insights I gained will show up in my work. Don’t worry too much, though I might be setting this up to sound a bit mystical, it really is nothing more than a “you had to be their story,” but it was how the night went down.
I really wish that I could share more, especially since I also don’t have all that much to say about the assignments that I’m here to report on. For yesterday’s assignment, the Achieve Anything… book was focused on the fact that you can organize your day down to every single detailed minute but you also have to be willing and able to change with little notice in order to achieve success. There was no real task involved.
Today’s assignment is sort of a fun one because it at least gives me something to do, as the book swings back around to have the theme once again focus on being thankful. This is the third or fourth time the book’s gone to this well, but I’m over complaining about the book’s repetitive/filler feeling structure. Plus this assignment is different enough that it seems like it has the potential to be fun, especially considering last night’s life-affirming experience.
This task at hand for today is to create a list of one hundred things that I’m thankful for. Though I keep saying this has the potential to be fun, it’s also going to be harder than you might think since I’ve evolved to be such a negative Nancy. Hell, I’m almost excited to see what I will manage to come up with but we’ll all have to wait for tomorrow to see this magical list. Until then, it’s now time for me to wrap this thing up with my usual saying of, 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.
