The Shabbat after Simchat Torah is Shabbat Bereishit -- "Shabbat of Beginning" -- the first Shabbat of the annual Torah reading cycle, on which the Torah section of Bereishit ("In the Beginning") is read.
The weekly Torah reading is what defines the Jewish week, serving as the guide and point of reference for the week's events, deeds and decisions; Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi called this "living with the times." Hence the theme and tone of this week is one of beginning and renewal, as we launch into yet another cycle of Torah life. The Rebbes of Chabad would say: "As one establishes oneself on Shabbat Bereishit, so goes the rest of the year."
Link: Beginnings
This Shabbat is Shabbat Mevarchim (“the Shabbat that blesses" the new month): a special prayer is recited blessing the Rosh Chodesh ("Head of the Month") of the upcoming month of Cheshvan (also known as "MarCheshvan"), which falls on Wednesday and Thursday of next week.
Prior to the blessing, we announce the precise time of the molad, the "birth" of the new moon. See molad times.
It is a Chabad custom to recite the entire book of Psalms before morning prayers, and to conduct farbrengens (chassidic gatherings) in the course of the Shabbat.
Links: Shabbat Mevarchim; Tehillim (the Book of Psalms); The Farbrengen
As long as everything is going smoothly and you are doing everything right, every step is going to be predictable, as though you’re following a script.
You go to school, you please your teachers, you graduate college and get a nice job. Nothing new. Nothing radical.
But with one failure along the way, one little crash in the system, and entirely new possibilities open up. Now you get to turn life around, all on your own.
The human universe through which our lives travel is so fragile. Perhaps it is intentionally so. Perhaps it is a great gift from our Creator, so that just as He created a world out of nothing, so we will create surprise and wonder out of the messes in our lives.
So that we can share in that most essential divine power: The power to recreate our own selves.