DESIGN THE LONG LIFE YOU LOVE BY AYSE BIRSEL > VIRTUAL TEA #122 > THANKSGIVING
Ayse (Eye-Shay) Birsel
Co-Founder + Creative Director | Fast Company Most Creative People
Dear Design the Life You Love Community,
A black market advance copy of?Design the Long Life You Love?was found in the flower district and rescued. I was assisted in this covert operation by another secret agent who asked not to be identified.
Your 4th mission, should you choose to accept it…
...is about gratitude. Discreetly?pre-order ?the book as an expression of your?gratitude to the person who least expects it.
Let’s use this Thanksgiving to tell our parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, nieces and nephews, friends, collaborators, mentors, and mentees that we are grateful to them.
Please remember to add a gift note unless you want to remain anonymous. Here’s one you can make your own: My life is better because of you. Thank you for who you are. Have a thrilling long life!
This note will self-destruct by next Thanksgiving.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Ayse
This week’s Virtual Tea is dedicated to Thanksgiving, but with a twist! To live a life of gratitude, we are going to thank ourselves for the change we made in our life. Join us and I will share more. Chester Elton wrote a wonderful blog post about it—the Apostle of Gratitude together with the Design Evangelista—Design the Life of Gratitude You Love!
RSVP for Virtual Tea #122!
Wednesday, November 23, 2022, 5:00-6:00 PM EDT.
Save-the-Date
Here is a calendar of our upcoming Virtual Teas:?November 30, December 7, December 23 (Christmas Edition).
Lee Kim ?is throwing a?NYC Friendship Party?(RSVP?here ) on my pub date, December 6, and you’re all invited.
Join us to celebrate my?new book?Design the Long Life You Love?on Tuesday, December 13 (RSVP?here )
This is all?voluntary.?If you cannot do it, it is OK. That is why each assignment will start with, Your mission, should you choose to accept it…
Overview of Missions:
Week 1:?October 31. Pre-order the book for you and your friends.
Week 2:?November 7.?Click "want to read” on the?Good Reads.
Week 3:?November 14. Post on Social Media.
Week 4:?November 21.?Gift the book for Thanksgiving.
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Week 5:?November 28.?Ask your local bookstore to carry the book.
Week 6:?December 5.?All hands on deck for the Pub date, December 6.?
Week 7:?December 12.?New Year, New Me campaign.
Bonus Assignment:
This is inspired by what Susan Wellisch and Megan Mazzocco, WELL AP suggested about IRL Friendship Factories—Turn this Thanksgiving dinner into a Friendship Factory. Give the gift of Friendship to someone in your family by reading this from the book:
“As you’re designing your life, think of a friendship factory where you can literally manufacture friends. To make friends in this factory, you need to build trust, have common interests and values, and spend time together. We all need to create fresh friends in addition to our old friends, and this metaphor is useful for thinking about how to make friends differently.
We can build trust quickly when a dependable friend introduces us to their friends. Common interests, like shared hobbies and projects—from gardening to books—bring us together. Shared values can include a cause worth fighting for or helping others through volunteering. Reciprocity accelerates friendships— when we teach or help each other without expecting anything in return. A shared space, whether a physical classroom or a digital one, where we spend time together completes the formula for friendship. When these things come together, our chances of making new friends are much augmented.”
Design the Long Life You Love by Ayse Birsel, page: 123
I became friends with my uncle when he was in his 70s, and I was in my 50s.
Thank You Gift:
If you can do 6 out of the 7; preorder ten books (or influence friends); or go out of your way to do something extra special to widen the circle of love, I will draw a?portrait?of you or your loved one.
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Stop by for 5 minutes or more to say hello, catch up, compare notes, share ideas, or work on your missions.
There was a question from Meltem Parlak about whether there’s a difference between pre-ordering now or December 6. Pre-orders matter! They send a clear message that there’s a demand for this book.
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Thank you!
Ayse Birsel + Leah Caplan + Gizem Karatas
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