Operation Achieve Anything: Day Three-Hundred-Nineteen, Dateline 11-15-2018

Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number three-hundred-nineteen of Operation Achieve Anything. Over the past couple of days, I’ve been hung up on how to handle mornings where I wake up before meeting my target of getting seven hours of sleep for the day. Day one was great because after waking two hours shy, I was able to fall back to sleep within a reasonable window of time, so it wasn’t that big of a deal. On day two, however, it took me over two hours just to get back to sleep to make up the missed slumber, which led to an extra late start to my day. This got me bummed out as I began to worry if I would ever work out a way to deal with my sleep issues.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Three-Hundred-Eighteen, Dateline 11-14-2018

Good afternoon crickets. Welcome to day number three-hundred-eighteen of Operation Achieve Anything. Here we are with another late start. I think I’m already going to give up on the new strategy that I was just talking about yesterday where I was going to start staying in bed until I hit my Fitbit target of seven hours of sleep, instead of making up any missed time through a nap later in the day. Where it does feel better when the seven hours of sleep come consecutively, today it took me four hours to pick up the last two hours that I needed to meet this goal. Meanwhile, when I was making up this time through naps, I typically only end up wasting about a half-hour to get back to sleep.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Three-Hundred-Seventeen, Dateline 11-13-2018

Good afternoon crickets. Welcome to day number three-hundred-seventeen of Operation Achieve Anything. Here we go with another late start to my day. Granted, I’ve already finished my SNL review for the day, and this post is the last task to fulfill my daily obligations, but I still started late nonetheless. Typically, I’d beat myself up for starting so late, for not living up to my own self-imposed pressures to be as productive as I can in an effort to justify my existence, especially during times like this when I am in between jobs.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Three-Hundred-Sixteen, Dateline 11-12-2018

Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number three-hundred-sixteen of Operation Achieve Anything. Over the past couple of days, I’ve been regretting my decision to participate in this year’s NaNoWriMo which might be the reason I’ve been struggling with my focus as of late. I don’t mind the work and have been having a blast writing fiction again, but it’s cutting into the time that I need to prepare for the projects that I wanted to start at the beginning of the year.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Three-Hundred-Fifteen, Dateline 11-11-2018

Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number three-hundred-fifteen of Operation Achieve Anything. It’s Sunday, I’m about to head up to my oldest sister’s house for some family time, so this is going to be another quick weekend post. This makes three quick posts like this in a row which has me feeling a bit guilty until I remind my self how I’ve been doing this particular segment of the site for close to four years straight without missing a day. Add to this the fact that I’ve done so with no real signs that there actually is any interest and I’m pretty proud of myself for keeping on top off all of this nonsense as strictly as I do, even if I end up having to phone it in from time to time.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Three-Hundred-Fourteen, Dateline 11-10-2018

Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number three-hundred-fourteen of Operation Achieve Anything. Here we go with some more fun and games following an impromptu day off from trapping myself behind this monitor for another full day. As always, it was relaxing and nice to be able to just sit on the couch for another rare round of day drinking. Yes, I do this every other week, but considering my past, that’s super rare to me. Now I just need to get over the guilt that I always feel for breaking my streak of productivity, which led me to feel like I needed this downtime in the first place.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Three-Hundred-Thirteen, Dateline 11-9-2018

Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number three-hundred-thirteen of Operation Achieve Anything. Sometimes I hate having ten different daily challenges going on all at the same time because, on days like today, where I just feel sick and need to take the day off, I feel like a complete failure for not getting to everything that I need to. Sure, I did manage to get almost everything done, but I’m probably going to beat myself up over the few things that I had to put off for tomorrow.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Three-Hundred-Twelve, Dateline 11-8-2018

Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number three-hundred-twelve of Operation Achieve Anything. I’m not sure how today’s going to go since I’m about to post another ranting post as part of my SNL challenge. In it, I rant about the hypocrisy in modern comedy where I tap into my issues with the instant switch to fueling the fires of outrage culture after decades of arguing how creating a shock to the system is actually good. I just worry that people won’t get how it’s not that I’m holding on to wanting to say offensive or hate-filled jokes. It’s more that I’m lost about how I’m confused by the people who help to develop the trend to always go crass instantly flipped while acting like they had nothing to do with the thing that they’re now against.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Three-Hundred-Eleven, Dateline 11-7-2018

Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number three-hundred-eleven of Operation Achieve Anything. It’s crazy how quickly I feel less anxiety the second that elections are over. I don’t even have to pay attention to the news anymore to just sense the tension that elections seasons bring. I haven’t even been listening to or watching anything current in my effort to avoid the stress being pushed by the media, whether intentional or not, and still, I felt an increase of inner tension that’s just now gone now that we have results.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Three-Hundred-Ten, Dateline 11-6-2018

Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number three-hundred-ten of Operation Achieve Anything. Last night, while working on my novel for this year’s NaNoWriMo, I got to thinking about my need to be more confident in my own voice. Where I used to think that meant I had to be a confident person writing nothing but uplifting things, now, it seems to finally be setting in that I’ll be much better off if I give up on these thoughts of expectation and just focus on my work. I’ve always felt confident in my concepts, but struggle to articulate what’s floating around in my head because I’m too hung up on what others will think of my work.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Three-Hundred-Nine, Dateline 11-5-2018

Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number three-hundred-nine of Operation Achieve Anything. Where last Monday I was dreading the upcoming week due to a lack of energy, this week I’m back to being excited about what I do. Not that I felt like I was over the actual efforts, it was just a rough week, and was suffering from burnout from struggling to manage my time since my head was just somewhere else. I’m now back to being ahead of my SNL review, am loving my NaNoWriMo novel that I just started, and still have time to do behind-the-scenes work for this site.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Three-Hundred-Eight, Dateline 11-4-2018

Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number three-hundred-eight of Operation Achieve Anything. It’s Sunday, and thanks to yesterday’s efforts I’m back to being ahead of the game one full review and one pre-viewing legwork summary of the episode of SNL that I will watch for tomorrow’s review. This is the ideal situation for me it allows me to watch and review each episode more casually since I don’t have to publish the thing within the same day. Not only that, having the pre-viewing legwork done twenty-four hours makes it feel like there are fewer spoilers from having just written the sketch list and summaries directly before watching the show.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Three-Hundred-Seven, Dateline 11-3-2018

Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number three-hundred-seven of Operation Achieve Anything. It’s a Saturday, so, I’m going to make this one quick so that I can finish thing up early and actually enjoy my weekend… well… I’m probably going to end up doing more work than play to make up for how horrible I was throughout the week at staying on task. I just want to hurry up and get through any obligations that need to be done to work on something different for a change of pace.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Three-Hundred-Six, Dateline 11-2-2018

Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number three-hundred-six of Operation Achieve Anything. Alright, I finally feel like I’m back on the ball. Last night I not only fit in two SNL reviews to get back to the point where I no longer have as much stress from having to watch, review, and post my findings all in the same day. Granted, I still have to put in the same amount of work to keep this tiny lead, but there is far less pressure since the deadline is more than twenty-four hours away. This allows me to focus on the content over just rushing to get things done. On top of that, I also manage to properly start this year’s NaNoWriMo and am loving the fact that I’m writing fiction again.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Three-Hundred-Five, Dateline 11-1-2018

Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number three-hundred-five of Operation Achieve Anything. As part of my new health kick, I’ve been trying new supplements. Last month, I felt a lot of benefits for the multiple life changes which on top of the supplement intake included adding walking and diet to me daily routine. Since I started everything at once, I have no idea which piece to this new puzzle was to credit for me feeling so clearheaded. This month, I switched up my supplements to test out new products and see what else may help my body and mind. I don’t know if it’s the switch or the recent run of stressful life events, but I feel like I’m falling back to having a foggier brain.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Three-Hundred-Four, Dateline 10-31-2018

Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number three-hundred-four of Operation Achieve Anything. Over the past couple weeks, I've been feeling a lot of self-hate for sharing anything political. Not because I have any guilt in what I believe, but because I know that nobody is listening to anything outside of their established belief, making me a Third Party Atheist who’s just preaching to a small choir. Besides, I’m not trying to change anyone’s views anyway, most of my post stem from the anger over people actively pushing for me to not stick to my belief, or at least that used to be the case when I had more friends who would chime in on the comments.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Three-Hundred-Three, Dateline 10-30-2018

Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number three-hundred-three of Operation Achieve Anything. It never ceases to amaze me how every single time that I see a spike of interest in my sight and go on to acknowledge it, it’s like turning on the lights to see nothing but scattering crickets. Whether I mention an increase in readers, ad revenue (keeping in mind I’m literally talking, at best, a couple of bucks a day) or high interaction on social media, the next day, all of those stats drop even further below my pre-increase numbers the very next day.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Three-Hundred-Two, Dateline 10-29-2018

Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number three-hundred-two of Operation Achieve Anything. First off, I’d like to that the cluster of crickets that started to make a little noise following yesterday’s Joseph Gordon-Levitt Saturday Night Live post. Granted I’m only talking about a dozen reaction to this one Tweet, but that’s more social media action that I get in a typical week. The timing couldn’t have been better because this was the first full day that I was official without a job, and I was looking for a sign as to whether to dig in and clean up this blog, in an effort to make it my part-time job, or if I should dig into a serious job hunt. This bit of interaction helped me figure this out.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Three-Hundred-One, Dateline 10-28-2018

Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number three-hundred-one of Operation Achieve Anything. Well, yesterday I celebrated the fact that I’ve made it three-hundred days through this Achieve Anything… book as tasked by the assignment for the day, so we can check that off my list of things to address in this post. While celebrating, I learned that I no longer have a job. What a rough month, first my dog and now this.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day Three-Hundred, Dateline 10-27-2018

Good afternoon crickets. Welcome to day number three-hundred of Operation Achieve Anything. I can’t believe I’m three-hundred days into this challenge and I’m still waiting for this book to get past the self-help nonsense and get on to actually focus on accomplishing a goal. I’m feeling burnt out once again, so I’m just going to jump right in and get into yesterday’s assignment where I was pretty much told once again to fake it until I make it. Though the lesson didn’t use those exact words, the example used was to force a smile until joy just magically sets in.