Issue 23 👉Live Your Life By Design Rather Than By Default

Welcome

Live Your Life By Design Rather Than By Default

It's often said if you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there.

If you let fate decide how your life will unfold, chances are you will not live a life of significance or meaning.

To avoid regret and live a meaningful life, you must become the conscious or intentional creator of the experiences you want.

This issue focuses on how you can design a meaningful life and its benefits, and the steps you can take to create a life plan, so you can experience more joy and fulfillment.

Included in this issue:

5 Steps to Designing the Life You Want (Video)
Remember What Life is Really About (Video)
The Importance of Creating a Life Plan (Article)
Become the Ultimate Architect of Your Life (Article)
How a Life Plan Will Give You a Deep Sense of Meaning (Podcast)
20 Questions to Help You Find Your Passion in Life (Article)
5 Steps to Designing Your Life to Maximize Success (Article)

Continue reading to find out.

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Video Lesson

5 Steps to Designing the Life You Want

To avoid drifting into a life you don't want, you must give more thought to what you want and design how you want to live.

In this TEDx talk, Bill Burnett, Executive Director of the Design Program at Stanford University, offers simple, but life-changing advice that will help you design the life you want.

👉The best way to have a life that's meaningful and satisfying is to create it. This means taking deliberate steps to design your life.

Credit: Bill Burnett via TEDx

Remember What Life is Really About

What is the meaning of your life?

In this video, Jay Shetty reminds us what life is really about and why that should be a major focus.

👉If you don't know what you really want or what your life is about, you're unlikely to live a life of meaning or purpose.

Credit: Jay Shetty

Motivation Increase

The Importance of Creating a Life Plan

You can live your life on purpose. It begins by creating a Life Plan. It will help you become an active participant in your life and shape the future you want.

In this post, Michael Hyatt shares simple framework to create a plan for your life.

👉Having a life plan will give you clarity and direction, and will also help you stay focused on the things that matter most.

Credit: Michael Hyatt | Photo courtesy of ©iStockphoto.com/jodiecoston

Greatness Inspiration

Become the Ultimate Architect of Your Life

If you are the architect of your life, you can plan, design and take full ownership of the results you produce.

In this post, learn seven principles, which must form part of any plan you create for your life, so you have the clarity to take the actions you need to live how you want to.

👉As the ultimate architect of your life, you are responsible for the results you create, which means you can always change what's not working.

Podcast

How a Life Plan Will Give You a Deep Sense of Meaning

Everyone wants to live a meaningful life. That can only happen when you create and follow a life plan that gives you a clear direction and purpose.

In this podcast episode, Donald Miller shares what you’ll experience when you create and follow a life plan, and the five steps will help you take back control of your life.

👉Having a life plan allows you to write the story of your life, instead of letting fate write it for you.

Credit: Business Made Simple Podcast by Donald Miller

Happiness Pursuit

20 Questions to Help You Find Your Passion in Life

A big part of designing the life you want is to do what you love and to follow your passions.

In this post, Dean Graziosi shares 20 questions that will help clarify what you're passionate about and how to find it.

👉The things you love or your passions are clues to what your unique gifts and abilities are. They allow you to experience more joy, fulfillment, and even greater happiness doing work you love.

Credit: Dean Graziosi

Success and Goal Achievement

5 Steps to Designing Your Life to Maximize Success

Are you intentionally designing your life? Do you know what that means and how to do it?

In this post, Justin Aldridge share five steps you can take to design your life to maximize success.

👉When what you do aligns to your mission or purpose in life, that's when you will experience real success and greater levels of joy and satisfaction.

Credit: Justin Aldridge

Life Lessons

How to Create a Life By Design and Not By Default

It's never too late to design how you want to live your life. The key is to get started.

In this post, learn simple steps you can take to live your life by design and not by default.

👉No matter how young or old you are, living life on your terms is possible if you believe it and take the steps to make it a reality.

Credit: SparkVision

Latest Blog Content

How You Can Use a SWOT Analysis to Improve Your Life

A SWOT analysis is not only a business tool, but one you can use to improve your life. Find out "How You Can Use a SWOT Analysis to Improve Your Life."

In this post, learn how to use a SWOT analysis to improve your life, so you can take intelligent actions to reach your goals faster.

👉Any tool or technique that can help you take better actions to reach the outcomes you want is worth exploring.

Final Words

It's Your Choice to Design Your Life

As far as we know, you only get one life, so you might as well make it the best you can.

You have the free will to choose how you want to live, which means it's your responsibility to design the life you want.

If you are not intentional about designing a meaningful life, chances are you will look back at your life and wish you had done things differently. You don't want to die with regrets, so start now and design the life you want.

MAKE IT COUNT

An action step you can take this week is to use the ideas and resources offered in this issue to create a life plan. That's the first step to design the life you want.

Have a great week. Thank you for reading. 🙏

And always remember, live your greatness! 🙌

Best wishes,

Neel Raman

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