We make plans. Sometimes they shatter. But often, they’re not breaking—they’re rearranging into something better.

The job you wanted slips away, and you spiral into disappointment. Then another offer arrives with opportunities you hadn’t imagined possible.

Your home sale collapses, leaving you feeling sunk and scrambling. Days later, an unexpected buyer appears with better terms and a faster closing.

But let’s be honest about what happens between those two moments.

There’s the waiting. The brutal middle space where the plan has fallen apart but the better thing hasn’t arrived yet. You’re standing in the wreckage with no evidence that anything is coming to replace it. This is where trust feels impossible—because you’re being asked to believe without proof. But trust is your powerful guide. Trust in yourself and trust that the world will come through for you.

If you’re in your 50s, 60s, 70s, you have a lifetime of evidence. You’ve lived through this pattern before. Multiple times. The relationship that ended and cleared space for the one that sustained you. The opportunity that vanished and redirected you toward work that actually mattered. The move you didn’t want became home.

Scottish poet Robert Burns wrote that “the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry”—lamenting how even careful preparation gets disrupted, leaving us distressed rather than celebrating. But what if he only saw half the story? What if those disrupted plans weren’t failing but being corrected?

We design our lives carefully, convinced our blueprints are perfect. Then reality rewrites them, and we call it disaster. But look at your history. How many closed doors revealed better paths you couldn’t see while pushing against them?

Your job in the waiting is to remember your own evidence. Remain patient. Begin again when necessary. Rebuild with what you’ve learned. Maintain hope through reconstruction.

Where has this happened for you? When did a dashed plan transform into something unexpectedly better? That’s life showing you it might know your next move better than you do.

Thanks – Michael (he, him)

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