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Design Thinking for Life: A Guide to Living with Intention

March 8, 2023

I’m Nelett.
The Designer of the Graphic Designers' Playbook. I help heart-led clients and designers show up with style and grace: a total Magazine, pizza and water addict. I am always striving for wholesome, mindful and soul-led living. 
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Life is a journey filled with twists and turns, and sometimes it can be challenging to find your way. However, designing your life can help you live a purposeful life that aligns with your values, passions, and goals. In this blog post, we will explore the concept of Design Your Life and how it can help you create a fulfilling life.

What is Designing Your Life?

Design Your Life is a methodology that helps people create a meaningful and purposeful life. It is based on the concept of design thinking; a problem-solving approach designers use to solve complex problems. Design thinking involves empathy, ideation, prototyping, and testing. Similarly, Design Your Life involves empathising with yourself, ideating your life goals, prototyping your ideas, and testing them to see if they align with your values and passions.


How to Design Your Life?

Designing your life requires a mindset shift from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset. You must be willing to experiment with different ideas, take risks, and learn from your failures. The first step in designing your life is to create a life compass, which involves identifying your values, interests, and strengths. This will help you create a vision for your life and set goals that align with your vision. The next step is to ideate your life goals and come up with different ideas to achieve them. Once you have your ideas, you can prototype them by trying them out in small experiments. Finally, you can test your ideas by evaluating whether they align with your values and passions.

Benefits of Designing Your Life

Designing your life has numerous benefits, including a purposeful life that aligns with your values and passions. It helps create a fulfilling life and reduces the risk of feeling stuck or unfulfilled. Designing your life also enables you to develop resilience and adaptability, essential skills in today’s fast-paced world.

Designing your life is a powerful tool to help you create a meaningful and purposeful life. It involves a mindset shift, identifying your values and passions, ideating your life goals, prototyping your ideas, and testing them. By designing your life, you can live a life that aligns with your values, passions, and goals. So, start designing your life today and live a fulfilling life.

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