Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Fifty, Dateline 9-7-2018
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“I used to think I had ambition... but now I’m not so sure. It may have only been discontent. They’re easily confused.”
Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-fifty of Operation Achieve Anything. Last night was night number three working my new graveyard schedule, and now that I’m actually getting some sleep, I’m really loving the new way that my day breaks down. It’s amazing how freeing starting my day at midnight is when you also have control over your schedule. This is why I may often complain about my work from home gig but am in no rush to leave it.
If I look at the zero hour as the start to my day, even if it’s not the point where I wake up, I have the choice as to whether or not I want to jump in and start going right away, or giving into sleep if needed. When approaching my day where it starts when I wake, I have to jump out of bed in a rush in order to guarantee that I can fit everything into my day.
I keep telling everyone how great it is to wake every day knowing how all of the tasks that I hate are already done, which often results in odd looks before the inevitable question, “Doesn’t that just mean that you’re doing the same thing, only at the end of your day?”
Nope…
That’s when I remind them that this new schedule has me done around five o’clock in the PM, everything I do after that is me getting ahead of my next day. Usually, I don’t need this extreme of a schedule but, until I finish cleaning up this entire blog, I need as much time to work as possible, and it’s extremely nice to know that I have a technique that works for me to make this chaotic attempt to maximize my efforts to achieve my goals, much more tolerable. Even though I know, I’ll still end up getting burnt out within a couple of weeks.
Right now, it’s important to me to put in this much work even though there’s no guarantee pay off, other than being able to share my freshly cleaned site with pride. Hopefully, once I'm finished with this phase, I’ll be confident enough to promote this page to the point where it brings in an income. Again, it will take very little to replace the income I now receive from my part-time day job, so this is an attainable goal. I need this now more than ever because I’m finally happy again but still discontent with my life since I’m still too heavily dependent on others to live.
It’s not that I don’t appreciate these others, but I would appreciate them more if I didn’t feel like such a bum for taking this freeloading opportunity to chase my dreams. Keeping in mind, that I cover all of my expenses, I just live in a windowless garage where I don’t have to pay any rent. I’m free to do what I want, and my place is set up like a studio apartment making me borderline independent. I’m only discontent because I wish that I have the ability to chip in more than I currently can.
Yes, this simple solution would be to rush out a get a traditional day job and give in to being a cog. That said, if I were to give in now, while I’m seeing nothing but growth and still doing very little to promote my work, I wouldn’t be living a life that I want to live. I feel that owe it to my years worth of effort to ride this dream out until I figure it out or end up in the ground. I will not be content any other way.
This actually fulfills yesterday’s assignment where I was supposed to share where I fall on the scale of content to discontent, as with most questions with binary options, my full answer is I’m a little bit of both leaning slightly toward the more pessimistic option while actually worried about the unmentioned option number three. Though I do lean toward always feeling discontent, I do feel that provides a lot of my drive.
For today’s assignment, I’m supposed to celebrate the fact that it’s day two-hundred-fifty by reflecting on how I feel about the overall experience of the challenge. I don’t know why two-fifty is all that special, the author of the Achieve Anything… book, must be a fan of days divisible by twenty-five because based on a three-sixty-five schedule there is no mathematical significance to this numbered day.
Oh well, I’ll still play along, but, as always, you’ll have to wait for tomorrow’s post to see what I manage to come up with. Until then, it’s now time for me to sign off 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.
