Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Fifty-Eight, Dateline 9-15-2018
/
“Every morning I wake up saying, I’m still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.”
Good afternoon crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-fifty-eight of Operation Achieve Anything. I think I got a lot of pent-up rambling out of my system over the past couple of days. I hate the fact that I now suppress a lot more thoughts than I used to, causing me to snap and have manic sounding outbursts during sporadic drunken nights as oppose to releasing pressure constantly by disguising rants through my jokes. Now that I’m out of practice in both the fields of joking and drinking only adds to the mental tone of my posts.
I feel guilty about it from time to time but then easy up when I realize my only interaction any more are digital where memories just don’t last. That’s assuming that anyone noticed in the first place. Once that guilt goes away, and I sober up, I feel great for the next couple of weeks to months while the pressure builds back up. This is probably not the healthiest way to live, but here we are. That’s just part of who I am, and maybe if I acknowledge this here, it can be an area my life where I will become more active in my efforts to ease or resolve this issue.
This actually plays into yesterday’s assignment where I was supposed, to be honest about the areas of my life where I don’t push hard enough. At first, I wanted to dispute the Achieve Anything… book’s claim in this task because I get defensive about the idea that I am not trying hard enough while I’m working my ass off on projects like this that don’t even have the benefits of pay. Once I got over my own insecurity I then started to think of all of the things that I will openly admit to avoiding even though avoiding these tasks is probably the exact reason I’m stuck in my current position.
These areas where I'm not pushing hard enough are any areas that have anything to do with business and/or marketing. I’ve always found it hard to sell myself because I suffer from imposter syndrome where I’m so afraid of being called out as a fake that I’d sooner be discovered than have to sell my work as something you HAVE to experience. My approach is more, if you read this, you might be surprised that it’s better than you thought, and I have plenty more mediocre content just like it if you’re a fan of this type of stuff.
I always dreamed of having a small collection of loyal fans over being accepted by the masses, so this is why I’ve always been willing to wait to be discovered organical. Like for this blog, I do absolutely nothing to promote it, other than share each post on Facebook and Twitter. I stopped inviting friends and family to like the page and don’t do any type of paid advertising, and I now get a couple thousand readers a week.
These numbers are more than double the readers from this time last year, so I feel like I’m doing something right but there’s still the problem where if I continue to passively wait to be discovered without dropping a few hints that I’m actually here, this will never be more than a hobby. This is why, to fulfill yesterday’s task, I will start to look more into promoting this page from this point on. This is actually the whole reason I started to go through this entire site page by page to clean everything up so that when I do start to actually invest in a marketing plan, I’d have a professional product to promote.
As for today’s assignment, it’s another one where the book is attempting to use the momentum from yesterday’s task by putting the plan to push harder into action. Lucky for me, that was already my plan for today, so this should be an easy one. Of course, you’ll have to wait for tomorrows post to learn any more details. Until then, it’s now time for me to wrap this one 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.
