When we teach "Designing Balance and Energy" for this wicked problem called life, I often talk about the strategy of time boxing. This isn't as simple as just scheduling your calendar. This is all about assessing how much time and...
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“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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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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