Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Sixty-One, Dateline 9-18-2018
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“You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.”
Good afternoon crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-sixty-one of Operation Achieve Anything. Last night I kept on keeping on with the behind-the-scenes work for this blog as I watched and reviewed three more episode of Saturday Night Live, in my effort to build enough of a backlog to be an entire week ahead of my deadline schedule. The plan to lessen some of the extra stress that’s been building ever since I started to clean up this blog.
I feel that having a week’s worth of a bumper will make it so that I would be able to casually watch and review one episode a day, knowing that if worse to comes to worse, I could technically take up to a week off if need be. Not that I plan to use this to take a vacation or anything like that, but minus these concerns over keeping up, I’ll be able to focus way more of my free time energy on the proofreading process, while working this new graveyard shift that’s finally starting to stick.
I’ve always been pretty good at looking at my schedule as a whole, knowing what little tasks I can to in bulk to get out of the way so that when I’m done, I can commit all of my focus on the ultimate task at hand. Take for example, the whole reason that I switched to graveyard in the first place. This schedule allows me to fit in all of my day’s unavoidable obligations out of the way before I even got to bed. That time, when I awake in the afternoon, I can then focus all of my efforts on whatever I want until midnight where I then start the process again.
This non-obligatory work includes things like working ahead of my schedule, doing the legwork for upcoming projects, and/or doing tidying tasks to clean up the content that I’ve already offered the world. Even when I’m slacking off, I normally have a second window open on my desktop to work on some smaller task. Some of these strategies may not work for everyone, but it definitely works for me.
Though I didn’t physically draw the iceberg of an illustration that the Achieve Anything… book suggested, I’m confident that what I just shared shows that I understand the iceberg concept where what’s visible is made up of the least percentage of the actual mass of this floating object. If you really knew just how much I put into this nonsense, you’d probably suggest that they lock me up and put me on drugs consider the external payout. That said, the sense of fulfilling my dreams of figuring out a way to articulate my thoughts is more important to me than any paycheck.
This sort of plays into today’s lesson based on the quote above that pretty much says how you are the only person on this planet who has the ability to be yourself. Once again, where the book drops the ball is that it assumes that I’m a business person who has no idea what I’m even into as I’m now supposed to list the tasks throughout my day where I feel that I use my actual talent, as if I’m still trying to discover my purpose. Again, it’s fine if others aren’t there but based on the title of this book, I thought it would be more for people who already had a goal they were actively trying to achieve and not still floundering to find their purpose in general.
Whatever, I still have plenty to say on the subject, I just wish that I was learning from lessons that felt more new to me. Oh well, we’ll see what I come up with for tomorrow’s post when I do get around to my update. Until then, it’s once again 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.
