Design Your Life

Design Your Life

Sitting in Atlanta, Georgia, around a wooden coffee table on a gray boomerang-shaped couch, it felt more like a living room than a webinar broadcast to hundreds of people. As each panelist responded to my final question, I leaned in to hear the soft spoken wisdom of Dr. Susan Chung .?

“Design is Life. And Life if Design,” she said.?

Expanding further she talked about her own journey to design her life, a life that she wanted. I couldn’t agree more. One of the things many high-achievers struggle with is getting lost in the doing, rather than the being.?

Mental Health Month is a great time for self-reflection and active experimentation regarding how we spend our time.

For those navigating life with or without mental illness or mental health struggles, creating a life of purpose, meaning, and also enough white space can help you build resilience for whatever may come.

To learn more, here is a link to the exercises designed to help you reflect on your current life, explore various life paths, and prototype experiences to build a life that is both meaningful and fulfilling.

They encourage an active and iterative approach to life design, much like how a designer would approach creating a product.

Erin Peavey with the book Design Your Life

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Rebecca Soja

Championing outcomes over outputs | Architect and Integrator

9 个月

I love how you offer exercises / prompts that can be revisited to help readers take steps beyond your thought-provoking writing! And I will be doing some of them myself! In addition to increasing internal self-awareness, I also recommend seeking feedback from others who know you really well because they may observe something you don't.

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