We All Have a Thing
Feb 23, 2026
Mine is dead car batteries. I know. I know. You can show me the YouTube videos. You can walk me through it. I can recite "positive to positive, negative to ground" like a mantra. When faced with a dead battery, something in me screams danger. It's right up there with finding a snake in my yard. If you know me, you know me.
A couple days ago, I walked out my front door to my van. I hadn't been driving it much because of some bad weather. (I had been starting it during the bad weather...because of all my dead battery issues.) When I turned the key, it wouldn't start. Dead battery. Ugh! Maybe I left the door slightly ajar. Who knows.
I didn't actually need the car that day, I was just taking it out since it was now experiencing snow freedom. I was also very close to finishing my book. I made a deal with myself: I deal with this after I press send.
I just pressed send. Huge sigh of relief. Goodness that felt good. Yes! Fist bump! I moved through all the discomfort, blew through every excuse and sent it to Amazon. Done. I was laughing at myself a little, proud of myself for using my own book to get my book "out the door." I was saving all the files, cleaning up the desk, and celebrating completion.
And then I remembered the van. Sitting out front. It was raining. Did the universe really need to send me this challenge? Off went my brain. Who am I going to call? It's the middle of the day. I don't want to bother anyone, but I'm going to have to bother someone to get this done. Maybe I can just wait. Maybe I can do it...Monday.
I'm pretty sure I'd decided to wait until Monday and pulled out my phone to text a picture of my cover to a friend. The title practically screamed at me. So ironic. We All Have a Thing: Leading Yourself Through Discomfort to Do What Matters.
Busted.
I actually didn't want my car sitting out front with a dead battery, so this mattered. There was all the discomfort. Oh hello universe, this is how we are going to do this? I press send and you immediately put walk the walk to the test?
Yes.
Exactly.
I gave my emotions a minute and from a calmer place, I remembered: I have roadside assistance, for this exact reason. I was working from home. A phone call fixes this.
I'm writing this from the other side of discomfort...for publishing the book and getting the dead battery a jumpstart. Turns out, I am my own commercial for my new book:
We All Have a Thing πΎππΎππΎπ
Today, I dealt with two.
Ready to deal with yours? I have a book for that now. π
