Nobody tells you this, but the most significant changes in your life often start with your calendar getting turned inside out, then flipped upside down.
You know that feeling when you’re standing in the middle of your living room at 3 PM on a Tuesday, realizing that everything you’ve built your daily rhythm around is about to change? That’s where I am right now. New job. New schedule. New everything.
but thinking about it, change is supposed to feel uncomfortable. That discomfort isn’t a bug – it’s a feature.
It’s why people stay in dead end relationships, “Better the devil you know” , it’s often safer to stick with familiar situations, even if they’re not ideal (because newsflash: change, the unknown, it’s uncomfortable. )
The Schedule Flip
I feel like I finally got my flow in life, building a routine that felt like a well-oiled machine. Now? That machine is getting a complete overhaul. My usual writing time? Gone. My perfectly optimized morning routine? In shambles. My workouts? going to try and get them done vs getting them done from 9 – 11 each day.
But here’s the thing about disruption – it forces innovation.
The Hidden Opportunity in Chaos
When your schedule gets nuked from orbit, you’re faced with two choices:
- Fight desperately to maintain your old patterns (and slowly drive yourself insane)
- Use this as an opportunity to question everything
I’m choosing option 2.
Instead of asking “How do I keep doing everything exactly the same way?” I’m asking “What if this disruption is exactly what I needed?”
The Minimum Effective Dose of Consistency
Here’s what I’m learning: When everything changes, you don’t need to maintain everything. You need to identify the few critical elements that actually matter.
For me, it’s just a few things:
- This blog.
- Key Relationships.
- Healthy living
- Becoming the best version of myself
Things may change, scracth that.
Things will definitely change. It’s embracing the change, and knowing that 2+2=4 but so does 16 × 0.25
It doesn’t matter how we get there, just as long as we get there.
Moving Forward
I don’t have all the answers yet. I don’t know exactly what these posts will look like in the coming weeks. But I know this: the documentation of change itself is valuable. The messy middle is where the most interesting stories live.
So here’s my commitment: I’ll keep showing up. The posts might be shorter, longer, more frequent, or less frequent. They might be written at midnight or at dawn. But they’ll be real, and they’ll be here.
Because sometimes the most powerful thing you can do is simply document the transformation as it happens, whenever you can.
To us.
Joe DiAndrea 