Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Fifty-Nine, Dateline 9-16-2018
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“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”
Good afternoon crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-fifty-nine of Operation Achieve Anything. Alright, it’s time to start getting back to the busy. My performance has become a little lackluster as of late, and by this, I mean the volume of work that I’ve been putting out recently and not the quality. As far as quality goes, I’ve been pretty proud of myself and my content. The problem has been that I overworked myself last week and now I feel stuck in bare minimum weekend mode.
Thankfully it is the weekend, so I can’t beat myself up too much. I was just hoping to put in a lot more behind-the-scenes work in order to fulfill yesterday’s assignment where I was supposed to stop waiting and push myself in an area where I’ve been slacking. Since I keep finding ways to put off the massive blog overhaul that was going to be my focus all day but thanks to an impromptu Friday night bender, that actually started Thursday, after midnight, I was still a bit too hung over to focus on what I was doing.
I feel fine with though because I’m beginning to see these hungover slow days as the only way to force myself to take a break, especially when it comes to the weekends. The need for breaks may be a topic I bring up too much, but that’s because I do everything from the same spot so even when I’m “relaxing,” I usually end up casually putting in some work while something entertaining is running in the background. The only difference between “relaxation mode” and “work mode” is the intensity of my focus because the actions are basically the same.
So, yesterday, I technically fulfilled the task, in this blog as a whole is my shit-or-get pot first effort to really get my writing out to the world. This blog effort follows over two decades of writing screenplays as an attempt to have the actors on the screen covers for the technical skills that I lacked when it comes to putting text on a page. I always felt that I was brilliant as far as my concepts and stories when but my limited skills with grammar and prose as continually left me feeling like a fake.
I may not be to the point where I am an expert, but I can see massive improvements in my writing from this time last year, let alone between now and this blogs debut a little over five years ago. As a reminder, this blog started as a ten-year challenge to test the quote, “It takes ten years to make an overnight success.” As of right now, being just past the mid-point, I think I’m on a pretty good pace, considering that I’m far more confident in my work. This means that, as soon as I get the rest of the site up to my current acceptable standard, I’ll feel like less of a hack as I jump into the marketing world.
So, I may not have made a significant step yesterday but the time off has me feeling well rested today so that I can hit it hard. All of this actually plays into today’s assignment where the Achieve Anything… book suggests that I live out loud and stop silently pursuing my dreams. I read the segment of the book just seconds after realizing that, other than an income, I actually am doing what I love and am committed to continuing to do so, and I should settle in and enjoy it instead of always feeling the need to defend myself for not wanting to live the life of a normal.
Of course, you’ll have to wait until tomorrow to read more of what I have to say on the subject. Until then, it’s now time for me to wrap this one up with my usual sign off and say, 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.
