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Monday morning.

There are weeks where you can ease into things.

This isn’t one of them.

I just came off roughly 2,000 miles on the road. Business meetings. New ideas. New relationships. Coffee. Cars. Conversations. A lot of windshield time and probably even more thinking time.

Now I’m home.

And there’s no recovery week scheduled.

There’s money that needs to be made.

Cars that need to be fixed.

Content that needs to go out.

A Chevelle sitting there waiting for me to finish what I started.

And if I can put all the pieces together, there’s a very good chance I’m pointing that car north toward Michigan and the Woodward Dream Cruise before the week is over.

That sounds like a lot.

Good.

I’ve learned something about myself over the years:

I operate better when there’s something to chase.

Not someday.

Not eventually.

Something close enough that I can see it.

A deadline.

A trip.

A number.

A car that needs finished.

A deal that needs closed.

Something that forces me to move.

Because it’s really easy to look at everything you have going on and say:

“I don’t have enough time.”

“I don’t have enough money.”

“The car isn’t ready.”

“I’m tired.”

“Maybe next year.”

And sometimes all of those things are true.

But I’ve also watched myself pull off things that looked completely unrealistic a few days earlier simply because I decided there wasn’t another option.

That’s what this week feels like.

Can I make a few thousand extra dollars?

Can I finish the Chevelle?

Can I keep publishing every day?

Can I keep training?

Can I handle the regular business at the same time?

Can I somehow put all of that together and still make Michigan?

I don’t know.

But I’m going to find out.

And that’s a completely different mindset than deciding beforehand that it can’t happen.

Too many people wait for the perfect week.

Enough money in the account.

Nothing broken.

No unexpected bills.

A clear calendar.

Plenty of sleep.

Everything lined up perfectly.

That week doesn’t exist.

At least it hasn’t in my life.

Most of the best things I’ve done happened right in the middle of some kind of chaos.

You make the call.

Fix the car.

Do the job.

Post the video.

Take the meeting.

Make another hundred bucks.

Then another.

Then another.

And somewhere along the way, something starts happening.

Momentum.

One completed thing makes the next thing feel possible.

And suddenly the week that looked impossible Monday morning looks completely different by Thursday night.

That’s what I’m chasing right now.

Not perfection.

Momentum.

Because sometimes you don’t get the week you need.

You have to create it.

–Nicholas Francis
Modern Day Dealer
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