The Best Kind Of Broken Plans

Hello and thank you for planning to read this blog! Or perhaps you just stumbled upon it, either way it can be valuable to think on while we move on to today’s topic.

Let’s imagine you have a job coming, someone has asked you to come to their house and clean their gutters. You ready your tools, ladder and all. Though when the day comes and you sit down in your truck to drive there, your phone rings. You answer, only to be told they no longer want you there, as they decided they no longer need the service. Try as you might, explaining how bad their problem is and how much you’d be willing to discount the service, it remains a no from them. You give your goodbye, hang up the phone, and just like that your plans have fallen to the wind.

Now what?

Personally, I love nothing more than plans being cancelled. While the initial sting of losing out on money gained always hurts, what can hurt even more is not taking advantage of down time when it arrives. Consider all the things you’ve been slacking on or simply haven’t had the time for. Side gigs? Personal projects? There are many ways to fill the void of money lost with means to secure it in the future. Be it making things to sells, training a new skill or acquiring new tools for additional services you can provide. While all of that may be harder when you lack the money to achieve it (Say, missing out on money you were expecting to be paid) there is still something you can manage.

Your own well being.

Taking an extra slow day every once in a while can be more beneficial than everything I’ve listed up until now, what with overworking being on the rise. While there may very well be a good reason to work harder than ever before in an economy like ours, exhaustion can sneak up on you like an animal in the dark. So if you got nothing else going on for you, take that nap, wake up, eat something, and get right back to napping, because you never know when that sleep will come in handy.

Thanks for reading and I hope you learned something from my own lesson in life.