Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Forty-One, Dateline 8-29-2018
/
“The first and most basic habit of a highly effective person in any environment is the habit of proactivity. Being proactive means that as human beings, we are responsible for our own lives. Our behavior is a function of own decisions, not our conditions. We can subordinate feelings to values. We have the initiative and the responsibility to make things happen. ”
Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-forty-one of Operation Achieve Anything. It’s Wednesday and seems that my day job has finally worked through the issues that allowed/forced me to take the last five days off, counting the weekend which I initially planned to work to make up for the days my work’s site was down just the week before. Though I hope it isn’t the case, returning to work might allow me to practice some of these anger management techniques being taught in the Achieve Anything… book over the past couple of day.
In fact, I practice yesterday’s assignment to write angry letters without sending them almost every day of my employment. As I’ve pointed out in the past, the job itself is simple, making the contradicting/inconsistent feedback even twice as infuriating. To add to the anger, the inaccurate information given through audits often use wording that makes it seem like they think that we’re stupid and don’t understand the simple rules.
This often leads me to hit the question’s messageboard to vent my rage over these inaccuracies, using argumentative tones more fitting for social media. This messageboard is borderline is borderline pointless because more often than not it takes them a week to answer and when they do it’s just a cut and paste response that also has an arrogant tone where they too treat us like idiots who aren’t questioning the inaccurate audit but instead just don’t get the rules.
I swear this feels more like a social experiment than a job. Ever since I started to look at it as so, I’ve noticed that it’s easier to stay calm and just shrug my shoulders and move on. There are points where I just can’t hold back my frustration. When this happens, I rush to the board and type up a string of hate-filled complaints only to delete as soon as I’m done. Since these people never respond while the anger is still fresh, I do get the satisfaction of expressing myself without adding to the chances of losing my job over one of these stupid interactions.
If you read this on the regular, my assignment cliffhanger from yesterday said that I was going to delve into the write but don’t send technique can be disastrous when it comes to social media. This was in reference to the fact that the enter button often means send instead of line break I would write a draft of something meant to be deleted only to drunkenly forget that the enter button means to send and not to insert a line break leading many unintentional notes to go out. Sure it’s easy to delete a post, but things can get a little weird when a draft of a private message is sent. Though this doesn’t happen often, it’s happened enough to where I barely send private messages anymore, especially on my phone where this is more likely to happen.
So, there you have a two for one for yesterday’s assignment, let now delve into the task for today where I’m now just supposed to practice being proactive, whatever that means. Well, I know what proactive means but there is no real task for the day other than to start to think of the general concept of being proactive. I feel that I’m pretty good at this, but you’ll have to wait for tomorrow’s post to hear why I think this is the case. Until then, it’s 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.
