Not as easy as it appears.
This is typically construed as a downer, a negative, something lacking.
The essence of achieving nothing is anything but.
Of course, as is the problem with all beer (Young Einstein, Yahoo Serious), one needs to define terminology to be speaking in the same context as everyone else.
So define achieving.
Reaching a goal maybe? Creating something? Earning some dollars? “He achieved greatness” for example would mean he became great. So lets agree that achieving means to reach something tangible or intangible but definable.
So define nothing. (Fine, end of story.)
No, I will.
Nothing is the ultimate subject of this site on the meaning of life perspectives and values and as such is much more than the lack of something, or the absence of all.
Nothing can be a state of peace, contentment, enlightenment, rest, ease, calm and emptiness.
Nothing has meaning without point of view.
Nothing is being.
Being nothing.
So achieving nothing in one context is equated to spiritual and all being enlightenment. In another may be achieving the ability to let go of productivity and begin to value nothing in particular.
In this context, the context of this web site on the meaning of life, achieving nothing is highly respected and a goal of the enlightened ones.