While at a music show this past weekend, I was chatting with a guy about how incredible our spot was… we were literally leaning onto the stage a few feet away from the artists performing.
And he yelled back into my ear (it was really loud)—“It’s one of my mantras, man! Everything always works out more perfectly than I ever could’ve planned!”
And he proceeded to tell me how he embraces this mantra as much as he can in his daily life.
…Only just enough planning and leaning into the magic of the universe for the rest.
And I really liked that.
Because it’s almost a guarantee that things won’t go exactly according to plan—it might as well be a law of nature. And if you expected everything to—then your day will be ruined when it doesn’t.
…But if you planned just enough to cover the major bases, and leaned into serendipity and spontaneous opportunity for the rest, then if/when things go “wrong,” THAT will be what you were expecting anyway, and you’ll be too busy navigating your “perfect” night in real time to even care or notice.