When the Bottom Falls Out
by Michael Feeley
The manager you trusted just quit in a rage. The deal you counted on collapsed. The plan you built your week around imploded overnight.
Your stomach clenches. Your mind races through worst-case scenarios. Everything feels like it’s sliding sideways into chaos.
Stop. Breathe. Look again.
That manager who quit? They were manipulating you. Now they’re gone, and you can build something honest.
That collapsed deal? It was probably flawed in ways you couldn’t see yet.
That ruined plan? It just cleared space for something better to emerge.
This isn’t about being glad it happened. This isn’t toxic positivity. It’s about refusing to let a bad situation also steal your agency. You can hold both truths: this sucks AND you’re going to find your way through it.
Most crises contain hidden corrections—the universe removing what wasn’t working anyway, even if we were too invested to see it.
Your job isn’t to pretend the crisis feels good. It doesn’t. Feel the gut punch. Acknowledge the disruption. Then ask: “What opportunity just opened up?”
You’re resilient. You’ve survived every crisis so far. You’re resourceful—you’ve solved problems with less. And you’re experienced enough to know that what looks like disaster on Tuesday often looks like liberation by Friday.
The rug got pulled out. Fine.
Now you get to choose what you build on the floor underneath.
Thanks – Michael (he, him)
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