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My Wildcard Life Comes True
In our Designing Your Life Workshop, we design three very different five-year Odyssey Jour…

A Path Toward Clarity: My Journey with Designing Your Life
Life has a way of presenting us with unexpected twists and turns,
challenging us to redefi…

5 ways to Build Connection in the Hybrid Work Environment
Our team just talked about holding an in-person Life Design Studio in June 2024, and thoug…

Let’s Design a New Narrative for Women
The Right Women Always Show Up
I’ve just finished another DYL for Women Workshop with a…

Are you stuck?
I’ve just finished delivering the second of three workshops in our Designing Your Life f…

Helen J. Doyle – Design Your (Retirement?) Life
Five years ago, I participated in a Designing Your Life for Women workshop taught by Kathy…

Graduation Advice from the DYL Community for the Class of ’23
In our last DYL newsletter, we asked you to share your advice to the 2022 graduating class…

Designing Your Life & Finding Your Talent: Prof G Interview with Bill Burnett
Talk about two stellar minds merging for a podcast, Designing Your Life author Bill Burnet…

Can you get a C?
When we teach “Designing Balance and Energy” for this wicked problem called li…

Designing Your Life Workshops Come to India!
“The DYL program has helped me feel upbeat again. Thanks to all the tools and reflecti…

Reframe Your Intensity as a Magnet
This was supposed to be a post about reframing. I love reframing. It’s a core part of De…

Most Impactful Thing You Can Do for Your Career Today? Life Design Interviews
Designing Your Life community member Bri Leever shared a wonderful success story on Linked…

What Happens When We Stop? The Power of Designing Your Life to Say “No”
It would take 641 miles in a rented gunmetal Toyota corolla, 57 miles on foot, and 127,170…

Vox: How to Reframe (and Solve) a Tricky Life Problem
Some aspects of life are impossible to change, and some we *perceive* as impossible to cha…

New York Times: 6 Ways to Level Up Your Daily Walk
The Designing Your Life team has regularly checked in with one another over since the move…

Write Down What Makes You Laugh: Authorship and ALS, Rob Brownell’s Story
This inspirational story of a life well designed comes to us from Rob, an author and commu…
