My Coffee Makers Both Died This Morning, And It Was the Best Thing That Happened to Me

This morning, both of my coffee makers stopped working.

Not one.

Both.

I stood in my kitchen switching outlets, pressing buttons, trying every possible combination as if sheer determination might revive them.

Nothing.

Now, if you know me, you know my morning ritual matters deeply to me.

Warm lemon water.
Homemade coffee.
Quiet reflection.
Planning my day.

It is where ideas arrive.

I often call them my “creative downloads.”

That sacred morning space is where clarity, inspiration, and momentum begin for me.

So naturally, my first thought was:

Well… there goes my morning.

But life has a funny way of interrupting us exactly where we’ve become too comfortable.

The Disruption I Didn’t Expect

Instead of staying frustrated, I got dressed and drove to get coffee.

And somehow, that tiny disruption shifted everything.

I came back with a completely different energy.

Suddenly, I tackled floor exercises I had been meaning to do for months.

I went for a walk.

I showed up to client calls with more energy, more creativity, more fire.

And then something even more interesting happened.

I reached out to people I had met at an event the week before. People I genuinely wanted to reconnect with… but kept putting off.

The disruption did not slow me down.

It moved me.

When the Interruption Becomes the Invitation

That experience stayed with me all day because it made me realize something important.

Sometimes what we perceive as a setback is actually a catalyst.

We become so attached to our routines, our patterns, and the way things are “supposed” to happen that we fail to notice when life is trying to move us into momentum.

Not every disruption is a detour.

Some are invitations.

An invitation to move differently.
Think differently.
Reconnect differently.

And often, that is exactly where new energy enters.

The “Broken Coffee Maker” in Business

I see this happen constantly with entrepreneurs, authors, and thought leaders.

A launch does not go as planned.
A speaking opportunity stalls.
A project feels delayed.

And immediately, the assumption becomes:

Something is wrong.

But what if the disruption is not working against you?

What if it is trying to wake you up?

Maybe the chapter you cannot seem to finish is asking you to approach your message differently.

Maybe the delayed response is creating space for a better opportunity.

Maybe the thing you keep postponing, the follow-up, the outreach, the conversation, is actually the next doorway waiting for your attention.

Sometimes disruption is not the obstacle.

Sometimes it is the strategy.

Momentum Looks Different Than We Expect

One of the biggest misconceptions about momentum is that it always arrives through certainty and structure.

But often, momentum begins with interruption.

With movement.

With something unexpected that breaks us out of autopilot long enough to reconnect with what matters.

That broken coffee maker reminded me that energy follows action.

And action often begins the moment we stop resisting what changed.

A Different Question

So now I want to ask you the same question I asked myself this morning:

What is the “broken coffee maker” in your business right now?

The thing you are frustrated by.

The thing that feels inconvenient.

The thing disrupting your normal routine.

And what if it is not there to stop you…

but to move you?

Because sometimes the very thing we resist becomes the catalyst that reconnects us to our next level of visibility, creativity, and momentum.