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June 11, 2023

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Helen J. Doyle – Design Your (Retirement?) Life

By Catherine Dalipe | DYLW Featured, Life Design Community, Tips for Designing Your Life, Women, workshop | No Comments

Five years ago, I participated in a Designing Your Life for Women workshop taught by Kathy Davies and Susan Burnett during a gorgeous and generative weekend in Monterey, California. Five years is a long time. Then again, in the arc…

May 5, 2023

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Graduation Advice from the DYL Community for the Class of ’23

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...

March 4, 2023

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Designing Your Life Workshops Come to India!

By Catherine Dalipe | Life Design Community, Lives Well Designed, Tips for Designing Your Life | No Comments

“The DYL program has helped me feel upbeat again. Thanks to all the tools and reflection sessions, and having generated so many ideas and possibilities, I have started to take actions and build around things that matter to me. I...

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...

May 2, 2022

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AdWeek: Learn How El Pollo Loco’s CMO Designed His Role

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

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...

March 1, 2022

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A Message From Bill and Dave Regarding the Invasion of Ukraine

By Savannah Peterson | Life Design Community | No Comments

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...

February 27, 2022

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Yuri Awano – Feeling the Need for Life Changes

By Catherine Dalipe | DYLW Featured, Life Design Community, Tips for Designing Your Life, Women, workshop | No Comments

I didn’t imagine a year ago that I would be standing where I am now today – with a data analytics certificate and ready to work on my next step.

January 5, 2022

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Happy 2022 from the Designing Your Life Team

By Savannah Peterson | Life Design Community | No Comments

The entire Designing Your Life team (not all pictured here) wish you and yours and happy, joy-filled 2022! It's because of you, our community, that we keep getting to design the work life of our dreams. Thank you for that!...

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