Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Sixty, Dateline 9-17-2018
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“I long to accomplish great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.”
Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-sixty of Operation Achieve Anything. Yesterday turned out to be an enjoyable day where all that I did was work on personal projects. Since it was Sunday, all of my dwelling mates were out and about enjoying their own time off, leaving me with peace of mind that it was going to be a day where I wouldn’t be bothered. Not that anyone bugs me when I’m out in my room, but there is just a hint of extra peace when everyone else is gone.
The main thing that I focused on was stockpiling a few backup SNL reviews that I wanted to rebuild to read some of the deadline-induced stress that I’ve been under from same day content creation. At this point, I’m now three days ahead of my schedule with the ultimate goal to be ahead by an entire week. The hope is that with this much leeway, not only will their be more of a casual vibe to my viewings but also, minus a looming deadline my work will stop feeling so rushed.
Falling into this more casual groove always reminds me that minus a consistent paycheck, I’m already being the person I want to be when I grow up. If I am successful in making any of my upcoming projects profitable, I’ll be steering my life to where I’m doing even more of my personal projects and no longer seeking out more traditional work as a backup plan. In fact, I think this constant hunt for a safety net may have always been more damaging to me than the starving while trying to figure out a way to live my life as me and not the clichéd cog in a machine.
Even if I were a billionaire, I’d be doing this same exact thing only in a more cozy setting. That said, all that I need is a studio apartment-sized living/work space so thankfully it won’t take that much for me to feel like a success. I think this has always been a disconnect for me because I’m still sort of hung up on what I believe is societies opinion as to what it means to be a successful writer. Where all that I want is enough success to replace a full-time minimum-wage job, it seems that the rest of the world thinks that success only comes if you make some sort of bestseller list. This makes me feel delusional when sharing my meager little plan that may be epic in scope but is actually extremely manageable when looked at against the expectation of lukewarm results that are all that I want or need.
This is why I need to start living like I already have my foot in the door because my current living situation provides the perfect opportunity for me to focus on what other’s could see as more lofty goals. I’ve noticed that over the past couple month, ever since I’ve added advertising to my site, that it is actually possible for me to bring in some pay. With each passing month, I see more and more evidence that I’m actually on the right track to living my dreams it’s just going to take a little more time for me to get my site up to a professional level before I get more active in my efforts to promote it.
In order to do so, I need to get rid of even casually thinking about potential backup plans that don’t involve being my own boss. This actually fulfills yesterdays task where I was supposed to stop silently seeking life and come up with a plan to start, “living out loud.” The creation of this blog was my first attempt to break the silence and get my work out into the world. Now it’s time to get a little louder and get the website to a state where it no longer looks like a hobby. Once I achieve this goal, I’ll start to shout to the moon that I’m out here.
Today’s assignment is supposed to help as I’m to now look at the tiny tasks that make up the more significant parts of most days, with the Achieve Anything… book’s lesson’s focus on how it’s not just the grandiose plans that lead to success. Because of this, the book wants me to draw what my iceberg looks like, with the ultimate goal above the water, and the smaller tasks being the hidden mass that’s not seen because it’s under the sea. The idea being that this will provide a visual guide to remind me that I can still be making progress even though I might not be making the biggest of moves.
Of course, I’ll delve more into the topic when I check in with tomorrow’s update on this task. Until then, it’s now that 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.
