How Bad Do You Want It?

Happy Friday!  What a week...TGIF for sure.  I may have to pull a teetotalers switcheroo and drink the margarita while Natalie drives.    Yeah.  That kind of week! I understand why people "relax" on Friday.  The week can be draining.  We even label how we can dress in the most professional environments.  We call it "casual day".  Casual is good.  It signifies relaxed, nothing too pressing.    There are some things that can be done casually...and others that require supreme focus. If I put a 15 foot balance beam 12 inches off the ground and offered you 50 bucks if you could cross it without falling, you would try, right?  You would fall off, laugh and casually ask for another try.  On the third attempt, you might just make it.  Put that same beam 50 feet in the air and you wouldn't even try it (unless you are a Wallenda - look it up!).  What if I offered you $1 million dollars?  Still no?  What if the building you were in was on fire and that beam was the only safe route from danger? Everything in life has degrees - no fire pun intended!  We tend to prioritize our life based on casual days and fire drills.  Procrastination rules the casual days and immenient deadlines set off the fire alarm! Case in point.  The last two weeks, I have been transferring my website.  I think I am smart enough to pull it off, I have done it before and I had good coaching (thanks again Justin!).  This time, I had a few more moving pieces as I left email going one place, website to another and registration remaining with my service provider. I "casually" pushed the buttons to initiate the transfer.  It even asked me 3 times "Are you sure?" and each time I casually hit "yes" and kept multitasking.  Three days later, the website was down.  No big deal, what's a day or two away from my adoring internet public? But on the 4th day, I realized my email was down!  I get a couple of hundred a day.  Same as you, I get junk, spam, shout-outs, etc.  I also get requests from partners that pay my bills.  I can not afford to be down on email!!! I called support and waited an hour to hear, "we can't help you".  I quickly read through forums and documentation and nothing provided me an answer.  I was set to panic when I did what we all should do when faced with something that is important...    I took a deep breath. I gathered myself.  I stopped multi-tasking and focused.  I knew the answer had to be where it always is... Right in front of me. So I looked again with a sound mind at Dreamhost, Microsoft 365, Wordpress.org, Filezilla, Vimeo and Youtube (thank goodness for 17 year old techies!) and in 5 hours of focus not only fixed my issues myself, it gave me greater knowledge for future projects - coming soon! About midnight last night, the familiar "ping" of emails began.  It was incessant for about 2 hours, as server after server re-delivered 2 days of email.  I have read them all...with joy! Your life is no different.  The answers you need to solve problems are right in front of you.  Don't let a fire drill be the only way you see them!  Breathe, gather yourself...focus.  The answer will appear.  The only question I need to ask you... How Bad Do You Want It? Until Monday, I wish you Money, Power, Success!