When Plans Change: How to Be Flexible and Move Forward

What do you do when plans change? Do you throw your hands up in the air in frustration, or do you look for ways to adjust your plans?

Planning and scheduling are wonderful tools, but they are only as reliable as the person using them. Recently, I failed to transfer some information to my paper calendar. It was probably hiding in the back of the book, and because of this mistake, my plans needed to shift quickly.

Let me tell you what happened.

The other morning, my client sent me a text to let me know they needed to reschedule their appointment with me. Of course, we found a mutually agreeable time for our next appointment, and then I thought, wow! Tomorrow, I have a free morning!

What a gift!

I decided I would do a little planting, run a few errands I had delayed, and maybe even swim some laps at the fitness center. I knew I only had the morning available because I had scheduled an appointment with a company to come to my house in the afternoon to measure for a mirror in my bedroom.

The next morning, I was sitting at my desk responding to email messages when an email from my dermatologist arrived. It said there was an important message in the patient portal. I logged in and realized that I had mistakenly scheduled an…