Jay Pijut didn’t set out to write a self-help book. He set out to get through a week.
For more than a decade and a half, Jay ran a web design studio, building sites and systems for clients and keeping too many projects, deadlines, and moving pieces from falling apart. When the studio’s project management turned into its own kind of chaos, he did what he’d always done with anything too big to handle: he broke it into the smallest pieces possible. How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.
Years later, at the lowest point of his life, he turned that same approach on himself. He was depressed, in chronic pain, out of shape, doing the bare minimum at work, and looking at a house he couldn’t keep looking at the way it was. He knew six things needed to change. Any one of them seemed impossible. All six at once wasn’t even a question.
So he stopped trying to fix his life and started trying to have one good week.
That week started as 17 lines in his phone’s Notes app. It became The Ideal Week.
It worked. Then it kept working.
The Ideal Week: A Guide to F Up Your Life* is Jay’s first book, and the first in the Love & Chaos Loops. The stories in it are mostly the bad ones, because those are the ones that actually help. It isn’t about him. It’s about helping you find a few new perspectives of your own.
Because the web is where he spent his career, he didn’t stop at the page. He built the tools himself, including The Ideal Week app, so you can plan your week, take action, and see the data without a spreadsheet or a stack of sticky notes.
Jay is the founder of Love & Chaos, the company behind the book, the app, and whatever comes next. He lives in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley with his wife, Jen, and their three kids.
He doesn’t want the light. He’d rather you had it.
For more, LoveAndChaos.org
