Integrate · 08 · Workbook · PDF
The Life Design Workbook
Design a life on purpose, one page at a time.
Your evenings, your money, your people, the job you keep meaning to change. This workbook gives you a short, repeatable way to shape a life on purpose: write down what you're living for, count your real hours and money, sketch three lives and test one cheaply, change your days and rooms rather than your resolutions, share the design with the people in it, and review it on a date. Every unit ends with a page to fill in for your own life.
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Integrate · 08 · One idea, drawn twice
Draw it as it feels, then as it works
The workbook uses the same grammar as the book: a life as it's lived on defaults, then redrawn around what it's for. Here's a pair from the book, Chapter 3 of The Designed Life.
The method: design the life
- What am I living for, in my own words?
- What are my real constraints: time, money, energy, other people?
- What are three ways my life could go, and how could I test one cheaply?
- What would I have to change in my days and surroundings, not just my intentions?
- Who is this life with, and what do I owe them and they me?
- When will I review it, and what will I look at?
How architects design for living
Every unit has an architect's view: how people who design homes that others will live in for decades handle the same moment, and what transfers to a life. Then three field cases, a newly retired couple with every day free, a bank manager whose branch is closing and a single mother caring for her own mother while working nights, and the Life Architecture Toolkit: the Life Canvas, Hours Ledger, Three Lives, Weekly Check and Annual Review.
It won't ask you to find your one passion. It treats the limits of a real life as part of the design.
Eleven units, one sentence each
Integrate · 08.01 – 08.11- 08.01What it's forWrite down what you're living for in your own words, and check it for choice, growth and people.
- 08.02Two scalesLook for something that feels good and something that means something, and don't let either stand in for the other.
- 08.03Your peopleBuild the relationships that matter into regular structures you choose.
- 08.04Where the hours goKeep a week's time diary before you redesign anything.
- 08.05A number called enoughPut a number on enough, and weigh every increase against what it costs.
- 08.06Three livesSketch three different lives before you choose one.
- 08.07Test the dreamName the obstacle, then test it cheaply before you commit.
- 08.08Days and roomsChange the situation and the routine, then give it months.
- 08.09Shared livesDivide time, energy and care on purpose with the people your life is shared with.
- 08.10The cost of yesBefore you say yes, name what it will replace.
- 08.11The reviewReview your life on a date in the calendar, starting with what went right.
Inside the PDF
A5 pages · read on screen or print at home
Where it fits
The workbook is the entry to the Integrate stage, the last of the eight; the book, The Designed Life, goes deeper, and you can get both as a set for €39. For when a plan meets reality, The Adaptation Manual helps you notice what's stopped fitting and change course. For the things you'll make along the way, try The Creation Field Manual.
Start free
The way of thinking behind this workbook grows out of The Polymath Bible, which is free. Get the book and a weekly letter with one idea, one diagram and one exercise.