Operation Achieve Anything: Day Nineteen, Dateline 1-19-2018

Good morning Crickets!!!  Though I have mixed feeling on how my I like this Crickets greeting as my daily opening pleasantry, I’m going to continue to try it on for a while to see if it’s an actual fit. I’ve used it from time to time in the past following the point where The Daily Breaker took on the “letters to no one” format where I write to a specific someone who just isn’t there, as opposed to the random musings this section of the site used to be when I started out.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Eighteen, Dateline 1-18-2018

Good morning Crickets, it’s time for another update!!! It’s day number eight teen, and I have to admit that my enthusiasm is starting to diminish. That’s not to say that I’m losing interest, but I do feel my energy levels starting to drop since I currently feel like I am just going through the motions at this point without any burst of encouragement that might come if I felt that I was making more progress.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Seventeen, Dateline 1-17-2018

Hello Crickets, here we go again for day number seventeen of Operation Achieve Anything. Once again, yesterday’s assignment, that I’m about to provide an update on, and the new assignment, that I’m about to share, both involve practices that I’m not just aware of but have already been actively using in my life.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Sixteen, Dateline 1-16-2018

Hello Crickets and welcome to another day of operation achieve anything. This is my second stab at this post thanks to a technical glitch that whipped out my entire first draft. Please keep this in mind if this new post feels less inspired than usual since I’m now writing with a rather annoyed frame of mind. Then again, I did take a walk and feel myself calming now that things are stable once again.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Fifteen, Dateline 1-15-2018

Happy MLK Day everyone!!! Things are still going strong, but once again, I find myself in a tough situation where the assignment for the day is something that I've already done, on the regular, since creating this blog. I think I have a workaround, but I'll get to that later in this post when I get to discussing today's assignment.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Fourteen, Dateline 1-14-2018

Here we are at the end of week two of Operation Achieve Anything and things are still going pretty well. Granted, most of the assignments up to this point have been simple tasks that seem to foreshadow future calls to action, but I appreciate this slow-building approach, especially when you consider there are still three hundred and fifty-one days left to this challenge.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Thirteen, Dateline 1-13-2018

Welcome to the second Saturday of Operation Achieve Anything!!! So far, I'm beginning to find it interesting that a lot of these early assignments are aimed at accomplishing goals that I've already either contemplated and/or implemented in the process of developing this blog. I guess this makes sense considering I've been at this going on five years, so I must know a little something about how to achieve a thing or two. Now I just need to figure out how to achieve earning money for my efforts.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Twelve, Dateline 1-12-2018

Holy Moly, this might be my latest start to a day that I've experienced since the paradigm shift where I began to prefer writing my blog post first thing in the morning as opposed to waiting for the sun to go down to be stricken with inspiration. Luckily, this should be an easy one thanks to the fact that yesterday's assignment was a thought experiment and I've already watched today's episode of SNL and just have to write the review.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Eleven, Dateline 1-11-2018

I've been worried about two out of the last three assignments out of the Achieve Anything... book due to the fact that they've been aimed at taking inventory of the people you're close to in life. Thankfully, these assignments have been thought-experiments as opposed to calls to action because, as a shut-in, I'm extremely nervous about the inevitable day where I will be assigned to reach out in an active attempt to get people to join in on my efforts.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Ten, Dateline 1-10-2018

I wasn't expecting yesterday's assignment to hit me as hard as it did. I guess I shouldn't have been all that surprised since my low self-esteem's always caused me to get too emotional whenever I've had to paint myself in a positive light in the past, so this really should have been expected. I find it much easy to beat people to the punch and highlight my flaws while explaining them away over pushing myself as a product.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Nine, Dateline 1-9-2018

Here we go with day number nine of Operation Achieve Anything!!! Unfortunately, this isn't going to be all that exciting of a post since yesterday's assignment was more of a thought experiment to introduce an idea than a call to action that might have given me something to report on.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Eight, Dateline 1-8-2018

Welcome to week number two of Operation Achieve Anything!!! If the rest of this challenge/year goes as smoothly as week one, I'll be a very happy camper by this time next year. Whether or not I actually meet my goal, the Achieve Anything... book that I'm using as a guide is giving me a sense of legitimacy when writing these Daily Breaker blog posts by providing a linear structure to this segment as opposed to the daily ramblings that I used to do.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Seven, Dateline 1-7-2018

Yesterday, I felt a little guilty that I would be putting in a bare minimum day in order to take a quick refreshing break to decompress after a night out with my cousin and friend. I didn't even do any drinking since I feel like I slightly broke myself on New Year's Eve and am just over the whole hangover thing. The primary source of my exhaustion was interacting in general which was followed by a horrible night's sleep on the couch.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Six, Dateline 1-6-2018

Just got back from a night hanging out with my cousin and an old friend. It was a pretty fun night of non-event based rambling and jokes which is probably the biggest things that I miss from my old life. Now, I mainly talk to people during holidays, birthdays, and other extravaganzas where the is pressures from perfection that lead the conversations to seem contrived which was much easier to deal with back when I had a social life.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Five, Dateline 1-5-2018

Here we go with day five of Operation Achieve Anything, making this the end of my first work week of this challenge. So far so good, but that might just be due to the fact that we are still in the early stages of this venture and all of the tasks are super easy. Though I can't wait to get into the meatier tasks in this book, I'm glad there is a slow ramp up since there are still 360 days to go after all.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Four, Dateline 1-4-2018

I really like having a prepared topic to write about for these Daily Breaker posts because working from the Achieve Anything book provides an extra sense of focus. I see a benefit in this focused writing in that it gives more of a professional feel to my work, to the point where I feel I could use any of the four posts I've written so far as a resume writing sample. 

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Three, Dateline 1-3-2017

Even though I went into this Operation Achieve Anything without doing any prep-work, other than buying the book that's providing the guidance, in an effort to avoid ruining any surprises, I couldn't help but start with the goal that I intended to achieve. In fact, this challenge has a bit of a chicken vs. egg aspect to its development where I don't know if I discovered the book first or if I was trying to find an interesting way to get to said goal when the book was discovered.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two, Dateline 1-2-2017

Yesterday ended up being a drag of a day being that I celebrated a little too hard on New Year's Eve, after napping through the actual year change over by five minutes which gave me the energy to then stay up until damn near noon finishing the leftover booze. There was a while where I started to get super nervous that I might end up sleeping through the entire day of this new Operation Achieve Anything challenge, but I ended up fitting it in with plenty of time to spare.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day One, Dateline 1-1-2018

As I said in last night's midnight post, this year, I will be working through the self-help book Achieve Anything In Just One Year for my new challenge, Operation Achieve Anything. This will take the place of my Daily Breaker posts since I plan to use this new challenge to provide structure to my daily ramblings to no one.

Dateline: Special New Year’s Edition 1-1-2018

First off, HAPPY NEW YEAR’S everybody!!! It’s been a crazy year that I’m glad is finally over and done with, then again, aside from the news and world events this year wasn’t all bad when it came to the personal projects that promoted emotional healing. In fact, apart from the world issues, this might have been the best year that I’ve had in quite some time.