Designing Your Life

October 24, 2022

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What Happens When We Stop? The Power of Designing Your Life to Say “No”

By Savannah Peterson | Life Design Community, Lives Well Designed, Tips for Designing Your Life | No Comments

It would take 641 miles in a rented gunmetal Toyota corolla, 57 miles on foot, and 127,170 very pensive steps to stitch up my heart after September 2022. Still recovering from the loss of a dear friend in a tragic...

October 14, 2022

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Vox: How to Reframe (and Solve) a Tricky Life Problem

By Savannah Peterson | Designing Your Life Book News, Tips for Designing Your Life | No Comments

Some aspects of life are impossible to change, and some we *perceive* as impossible to change. Gravity vs. anchor problems. As authors Bill Burnett and Dave Evans told Vox this week, the key to dealing with both anchor and gravity...

July 7, 2022

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Class of 2022 Advice from the DYL Community

By Savannah Peterson | Life Design Community, Tips for Designing Your Life | No Comments

In our last DYL newsletter, we asked you to share your advice to the 2022 graduating class. As usual, we were impressed by your thoughts. Here’s what the community had to say! From Trevor in Columbu, Ohio, Grad 1995...

June 29, 2022

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New York Times: 6 Ways to Level Up Your Daily Walk

By Savannah Peterson | Designing Your Covid Life, Tips for Designing Your Life | No Comments

The Designing Your Life team has regularly checked in with one another over since the movement began six years ago, and especially the last two and a half years. One of the key activities keeping all of us sane has...

June 23, 2022

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Write Down What Makes You Laugh: Authorship and ALS, Rob Brownell’s Story

By Savannah Peterson | Designing Your New Work Life, Lives Well Designed, Tips for Designing Your Life | No Comments

This inspirational story of a life well designed comes to us from Rob, an author and community member in Atlanta, Georgia. After working for thirty years as a product design engineer, I recently completed my first novel, Invention Is a...

June 22, 2022

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Find Happiness and New Freedom at Work: The Yoga Hour

By Savannah Peterson | Designing Your Life Book News, Designing Your New Work Life, Tips for Designing Your Life | No Comments

Designing Your Life author Bill Burnett had the opportunity to join The Yoga Hour podcast recently. He offers real steps and a road map to transform our job and improve work experience, helping us reframe problems and move into action.

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What Happens When We Stop? The Power of Designing Your Life to Say “No”

Vox: How to Reframe (and Solve) a Tricky Life Problem

Class of 2022 Advice from the DYL Community

New York Times: 6 Ways to Level Up Your Daily Walk

Write Down What Makes You Laugh: Authorship and ALS, Rob Brownell’s Story

Find Happiness and New Freedom at Work: The Yoga Hour

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Welcome to the Designing Your Life site, a place where you can get information about our book, links to information about our course at Stanford and its curriculum, and information about upcoming talks and workshops that Dave and Bill will be hosting around the country.

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