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...
Read More
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...
Read More
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...
Read More
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...
Read More
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...
Read More
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.
Read More
Andy Rebhun is the CMO of El Pollo Loco and was kind enough to share his Designing Your Life story with us after he mentioned the impact the book had on him in Adweek. His bio and interview are below:...
Read More
Designing Your Life author and Stanford Professor Bill Burnett joined the Stanford Center on Longevity for an episode of Century Lives, a podcast exploring what our careers look like now that they're 60 years long (and potentially 25 different jobs!)...
Read More
We are always looking for stories of lives well designed to share with our community. Seeing how you apply our toolkit to your lives and the outcome, especially when some time has passed, is often inspiring. This week we're excited...
Read More
We don't presume for a moment to fully grasp what it's like for those experiencing this conflict. Nor do we imagine that a worksheet or a clever reframe are responses to rockets and imperialism. The most important word in all...
Read More
