Designing Your Life

January 12, 2023

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Reframe Your Intensity as a Magnet

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

This was supposed to be a post about reframing. I love reframing. It’s a core part of Designing Your Life, and it’s one of the most used tools in my life design kit. Reframes help keep me sane. But Dave,...

January 12, 2023

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Most Impactful Thing You Can Do for Your Career Today? Life Design Interviews

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

Designing Your Life community member Bri Leever shared a wonderful success story on LinkedIn that caught our attention. Life Design Interviews are a key piece of the DYL toolkit, but meeting up with people in person continues to be a...

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...

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Reframe Your Intensity as a Magnet

Most Impactful Thing You Can Do for Your Career Today? Life Design Interviews

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

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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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