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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 18, 2023

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Can you get a C?

By Susan Burnett | DYLW Featured, Podcast, Tips for Designing Your Life | No Comments

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...

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...

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...

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...

June 23, 2022

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Write Down What Makes You Laugh: Authorship and ALS, Rob Brownell’s Story

By Savannah Peterson | Designing Your New Work Life, Lives Well Designed, Tips for Designing Your Life | No Comments

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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