While I was away at Burning Man, my email service provider (who sends out these daily emails) retired their services.
…Of course.
And so when I got back, not only did I have to unpack, reintegrate into daily living, and make sense of the other-worldly experience that was/is Burning Man… but I also had to find a new email service provider, migrate all of my subscribers over to them, redraft all of my email templates and rss feed settings from scratch, rebuild all of my email capture forms and popups, and create new automation flows.
…Not exactly good timing when there’s a million other things to do after coming back from vacation.
But, with that challenge came an opportunity that I had been procrastinating for a long time.
My old email service provider wasn’t really keeping themselves up-to-date with the times. They had a service that worked, kept it minimal, and trucked forward for almost 10 years without changing much along the way.
And while it worked just fine for me, it was definitely time for a refresh.
And that’s what coming home to this challenge gave me the opportunity to do… refresh what I had been stubbornly refusing to do for so long.
Worth thinking about for yourself: what challenge are you facing in your life and where’s the opportunity in that challenge?
In the heat of the moment it can feel like there absolutely isn’t one—and the only presiding thoughts and emotions are all geared towards “the bad” and the inconveniences of the circumstance.
…But with a calm and collected mind, you just might find there’s more to your life’s challenges than what meets the frustrated eye.