Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Seventy-Nine, Dateline 10-6-2018

Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-seventy-nine of Operation Achieve Anything. As I said yesterday, this is going to be the last weekend that I have to spend with my dog since we will be putting her down this upcoming Monday. Last night, I dragged my mattress to the ground to give her easy access to people comfort and then sat with her through the night which is how I plan to spend the next couple of nights as well.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Seventy-Eight, Dateline 10-5-2018

Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-seventy-eight of Operation Achieve Anything. This is going to be a tough one since this will be the last weekend that I spend with my sick little dog. What makes things extra hard is that she seems to have inherited my families sense of denial. Even though she’s barely eating and refuses to lay down since I think it hurts the growth on her belly, she still greets me each morning when I wake with panting face that makes a dog look like their smiling and a wagging tail.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Seventy-Seven, Dateline 10-4-2018

Good afternoon crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-seventy-seven of Operation Achieve Anything. I’m still trying to settle into my graveyard schedule, but my work is making it very hard. You know how I was saying that I was finally starting to settle because the gig seemed to have solved all the issues that cause the workload generator to constantly be down. Well, after five days of working consistently the tasks have started to dry up once again.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Seventy-Six, Dateline 10-3-2018

Good afternoon crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-seventy-four of Operation Achieve Anything. It’s day number two of my latest attempt to switch over to a graveyard schedule. This is probably the third time within the past couple of months that I’ve made the switch because it’s a more efficient schedule for me to fit in everything that I want to do, even though it takes way more work to stick to it. The problem has been, with my day job so inconsistent with its workflow, when the tasks run out in the middle of the night, I give in and go to sleep. Three workless days in a row, and next thing you know I’m back onto a more traditional schedule for sleep.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Seventy-Five, Dateline 10-2-2018

Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-seventy-four of Operation Achieve Anything. It’s now time to get back in my groove. My work situation has stabilized to where the system’s been consistently up for the past several days, easing some of the stress that the lack of task was just my jobs chicken shit way letting us know that the assignment was almost over. It now seems like I’m safe for at least a couple of months.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Seventy-Four, Dateline 10-1-2018

Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-seventy-four of Operation Achieve Anything. Here I am again to report once again on this bummer of an assignment that I openly admit to half-assing my way through. Once again, I don’t take issue with the actual lesson of forgiving others, but as I keep saying, I’m frustrated with all of the self-help advice when I thought that this book would be more specific to goals and less focused on healing the inner me. The title of the book just really bamboozled me into thinking that this particular book would be more about the task than the self.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Seventy-Three, Dateline 9-30-2018

Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-seventy-three of Operation Achieve Anything. Sorry, this is going to be a quick one since all that I did yesterday was work on my day job to make up for all the hours that the system has been down throughout the week. I was so disinterested in working that I managed to get myself into a state where I was running on autopilot so deeply that I can barely remember the day as it passed. Hell, even the entertainment option that I opted to turn to as my background distraction was something that I’ve seen/heard so many times in the past that the content just washed through me with nothing seeming to stick.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Seventy-Two, Dateline 9-29-2018

Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-seventy-two of Operation Achieve Anything. If you’re following along with this saga at home, last night I was actually able to fit in the max amount of hours that I can fit in for my day job after the system’s been down for over a week and a half. As the gig become increasingly unstable, I will stop any frivolous spending and only use my earnings from here on out towards creating my own stable job.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Seventy-One, Dateline 9-28-2018

Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-seventy-one of Operation Achieve Anything. It’s Friday, I’m burnt out from the week and uninspired by yesterdays assignment, so I’m going to make this a quick update so I can attempt to get an early start to my weekend. With that, instead of the usual build-up, I’m just going to jump right in and start to share how I fulfilled yesterday’s task to note all the new things I learned throughout the day. Again, for those who didn’t read yesterday’s post, the reason I feel uninspired by the task is that it’s an exact duplicate of a task from a couple months ago and this book is getting even more repetitive the closer it gets to the end.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Seventy, Dateline 9-27-2018

Good afternoon crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-seventy of Operation Achieve Anything. One final note on my recent bout of concerns as to whether or not I’m putting in the right amount of effort I put into my day, that I feel stupid for just now figuring out. The real reason I’ve been overthinking this topic is that my day job has been extremely unstable over the past couple of week. In fact, I’ve had more days with no work available than I’ve had days where I actually been able to do my job.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Sixty-Nine, Dateline 9-26-2018

Good afternoon crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-sixty-nine of Operation Achieve Anything. Last night I couldn’t stop thinking about how often these posts keep coming back to me trying to justify how I spend my time. Whether I’m claiming to need a break before I burn myself out, or beat myself up for not getting as much done as I planned, you have to remember I haven’t missed a deadline or bailed out on an obligation every since starting this site over five years ago.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Sixty-Eight, Dateline 9-25-2018

Good afternoon crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-sixty-eight of Operation Achieve Anything. The cold I was complaining about yesterday is still in effect. I’m still not entirely sure if I’m actually sick or is this is a psychosomatic effort from my body to trick me into getting more sleep. I’m kind of leaning toward the latter because aside from the morning sniffles and coughs I don’t really feel all that bad. Either way, I’ve gotten more sleep over the past two days than I have the past two weeks combined.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Sixty-Seven, Dateline 9-24-2018

Good afternoon crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-sixty-six of Operation Achieve Anything. Yesterday I woke with cold-like symptoms and joked to myself that this meant the season of heat is finally over. Today, looking out through my open door provided evidence that it might have been right as a see a beautiful overcast sky and a pleasant feel of the temperature as the outside air blows by.  Hopefully, this weather will hold up because I have much more energy when I’m cold.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Sixty-Six, Dateline 9-23-2018

Good afternoon crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-sixty-six of Operation Achieve Anything. Once again, I’m stuck beating myself up for being a slacker after staying up all night doing nothing but work. The problem in my head this time is that, that I want to start my next project to get the ball rolling because there is more potential for it to lead to a profit than this page where I just share my thoughts.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Sixty-Five, Dateline 9-22-2018

Good afternoon crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-sixty-five of Operation Achieve Anything.  I don’t know for sure, but I think that the Achieve Anything… book’s current theme of underused ambition and lack of genuine effort has me feeling the need to defend the use of my time. It kind of seems that the book is saying that unsuccessful people are only failures because their not being honest with just how much they try. I know that the book never blatantly says that this is always the case, but even putting it out there makes it hard not to believe that this is how my efforts are seen by the world.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Sixty-Four, Dateline 9-21-2018

Good afternoon crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-sixty-four of Operation Achieve Anything. I often feel that I spend too much time on here talking about how I need to take it easy for a little bit. I just realized that this is because I beat myself up on a weekly basis for wanting to actually take time off during the weekend, especially ever since I started to work this five day a week part time job instead of just randomly working whenever a gig became available.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Sixty-Three, Dateline 9-20-2018

Good afternoon crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-sixty-three of Operation Achieve Anything. Sometimes I feel like I spend too much time writing reminders that this site was created with the intention train for at least ten years in my effort to branch out and write content outside of the screenwriting format and structure. Though I am compelled to throw this fact out as a reminder for any wackiness one might find in my writing as an explanation and not an excuse.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Sixty-Two, Dateline 9-19-2018

Good afternoon crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-sixty-two of Operation Achieve Anything. Thanks to last night’s efforts, I am now extremely close to meeting my goal of having a week’s worth of backlog content by this weekend. I think all that I have to do is two more double review nights before I can feel completely safe from having to do another same day review for the rest of this SNL challenge. This would allow me to double down on my efforts to clean up as many pages of this blog as I can to get this website to a site where I wouldn’t feel more confident if I were to actively start to promote it.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Sixty-One, Dateline 9-18-2018

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.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Sixty, Dateline 9-17-2018

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.