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...
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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...
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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.
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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“When retirement isn’t retiring to a rocking chair, what do you do?”
“The DYL digital journey is a perfect composition of 3 bi-weekly live sessions, a well-thought through workbook and app, and an extremely well-composed community, plus a bonus session. I had time to breathe and reflect between the sessions, with the…
“If reading the DYL books was eye-opening, taking the Digital Journey was like stepping from black-and-white Kansas into color-saturated Oz. Everything came to life in large and small group discussions under the deliberate care of Joan Cheverie, Michael Cato, and…
Ana Cristina Leonardos is a sociologist, author and co-founder of Festina Lente Platform. In 2019, she launched a new online platform and took on the mantra “fail fast and fail forward” as she tested her first prototype. She focused on…
Tessa Preito-Valdes shared her delightful Designing Your Life experience in the Philippine Daily Inquirer this week. It’s inspiring to hear how designing her new life is a part of her healing journey. “In my journey of healing, I have become...
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I first learned about Designing Your Life while attending a non-profit leadership training seminar. A faculty member from Stanford’s Design School conducted the half-day workshop; we were introduced to design thinking and then prototyped an alarm clock applying DYL principles. …
