Is It Time to Design Your Life?
Written by David Jones, a LifePath client
Who Would Benefit from This Program?
Feeling stuck? Whether it's your career, relationship, or some other area, this program can help you get unstuck and back on track.
Feeling lost or aimless? If you don’t know what you want or can’t figure out your next step, this program will help you find your path and take the first steps on it.
Think you’ve already got it all figured out? This program will help you validate your plan, ground it in a clear decision-making framework, and give you momentum to achieve any outstanding goals. It’s about moving from good to great—with confidence and clarity.
What Is the Program?
This program is essentially a five-stage design thinking process for your life. It helps you uncover your deeper purpose, define meaningful goals, and build a plan to achieve them.
It sounds big—because it is.
Imagine if you hired a world-class design agency to help you map out your life. That’s what this is, except you do the work. Your coach acts like a personal trainer: guiding, pushing, and supporting you to get the most value from the process—so you can focus fully on doing the work.
The 5 Steps of the Program:
Person – Reflect on your life so far. What’s working? What’s missing? What needs to change? You’ll also identify where you are in the cycle of change, and what kind of change is called for.
Purpose – Uncover what drives you: your passions, values, and strengths. This becomes the foundation for evaluating future paths.
Obstacles – Identify the internal blockers keeping you stuck. Learn to manage your inner critic and other negative voices. You’ll write a powerful letter to yourself from the end of your life to gain deep perspective.
Vision – Set a bold vision and explore potential life paths. Evaluate them using the self-knowledge you’ve built.
Launch Pad – Turn your vision into a concrete, actionable plan with real steps to sustain momentum over time.
One of the most powerful parts of the program? Writing a letter to myself from the end of my life. It gave me the exact message I needed to hear—deeply motivating and personal.
Do I Really Need a Coach to Do This?
Do you need a personal trainer at the gym? An architect to build a house?
Maybe not. But how serious are you about building the life you truly want?
Life planning isn’t rocket science—but doing it well is hard to do alone. If you could’ve done it by yourself, you probably wouldn’t still be reading this.
Having a coach means:
Someone to challenge your assumptions
A sounding board for your insights
Guidance when things get intense or unclear
A structure to keep you focused and moving
I once had a direct report lose 100 lbs in 4 months on a pro-level health program—while I’d been trying to lose 20 lbs for over 20 years. That experience taught me that serious transformation usually requires expert help.
How to Get the Most Out of It
Like anything deep and personal, you get out what you put in. Grab the workbook at least a week early and start working through it.
It takes time to go deep. But if you want to build a tall building, you’ve got to dig a deep foundation. Life planning is no different.
Is It Worth It?
Is it worth having a plan for your life?
Is it worth knowing you’re on the best path for you—and making real progress toward it?
This program is worth it if:
You’re willing to show up and do the work
You’re ready to be honest with yourself
You want more clarity, direction, and intention in your life
What I Got Out of It
I thought I already had a pretty solid life plan. I wasn’t expecting big revelations.
But here’s what I actually walked away with:
A fully fleshed-out life plan grounded in clarity and confidence
Real next steps on things I hadn’t been making progress on
A clear understanding of why I was stuck, and how to work around it going forward
A sense of momentum—within a week, I’d launched multiple workstreams that started paying off immediately
Even though I didn’t feel particularly “stuck” going in, the value I got was huge. I can only imagine how transformational it would be for someone who is feeling stuck or lost.
I truly believe everyone should do something like this at some point in their life. The world would be a much better place if people lived more intentionally—and this program gives you the tools to do exactly that.
