When Plans Fall Apart
“You have power over your mind—not outside events.”
The cosmos abides no one
You can plan a perfect Monday. You can map it down to the minute. But the universe doesn’t care about your calendar.
A meeting runs long. A kid gets sick. A server goes down. The world shifts, and your plan starts leaking like a cheap umbrella in a storm.
The Stoic move here isn’t to fight the storm. It’s to stay steady while it passes.
You hold the plan lightly. You don’t cling. You don’t kick the wall. You adjust, breathe, and move to the next right thing. That’s discipline, not defeat.
Your strength isn’t the plan.
Your strength is how well you pivot when the plan falls apart.
Try this today: When something disrupts your schedule, pause for five seconds. Then say, quietly, “Alright—what’s the next thing I can do?” Do that.
Stay hungry. Stay wise. Eat brekkie.
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