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Are You Stuck? by Susan Burnett, CEO DYL Consulting and former Chief Learning Officer at Deloitte, Gap Inc., Yahoo! and HP. I’ve just finished delivering the second of three workshops in our Designing Your Life for Women Digital Journey.  In this session we focus on how we get unstuck. It’s all about how we frame the problems or challenges in our life.  The magic in the workshop happens when women realize that the way they define their problem creates the boundaries and constraints for possible solutions. It’s magic every time! Frame Your Problem During our session women frame a pro ..read more

Five years ago, I participated in a Designing Your Life for Women workshop taught by Kathy Davies and Susan Burnett during a gorgeous and generative weekend in Monterey, California.  Five years is a long time.  Then again, in the arc of a life, five years isn’t much at all. At the time, I didn’t realize that I was actually designing — and preparing for — life after retiring from full-time work. I felt then that I had one more career in me, one more leadership perch from which I could continue to influence the issues I care about and to mentor up-and-coming colleagues.  I didn ..read more

Talk about two stellar minds merging for a podcast, Designing Your Life author Bill Burnett joined legendary Prof G for an episode of his podcast recently. You can listen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts to get inspired. We’ve included a few choice quotes below as well. “This thing we call design thinking… Now we used to call it just human-centered design. We’ve been doing this at Stanford for a long time since 1963 when we started this program. The way you do it is you just change your mindset. You start thinking like a designer. So there’s five mindsets, curiosity, rather than being a skepti ..read more

When we teach “Designing Balance and Energy” for this wicked problem called life, I often talk about the strategy of time boxing.  This isn’t as simple as just scheduling your calendar.  This is all about assessing how much time and effort is a task worth and which tasks deserve getting an “A” and which can get a “C”?  Take a listen to this One Habit podcast I did with the 1st90 team who are all about building the habits that lead to high performance at work ..read more

“The DYL program has helped me feel upbeat again.  Thanks to all the tools and reflection sessions, and having generated so many ideas and possibilities, I have started to take actions and build around things that matter to me. I am excited as I visualize and plan my next adventure.” DYL Participant in Mumbai, India Designing Your Life workshops come to India!  Why?  Because so many of you have told us that you need a new approach to solving the work and life challenges that are unprecedented in India today.  Companies and their employees live in a VUCA world — volatile ..read more

This was supposed to be a post about reframing. I love reframing. It’s a core part of Designing Your Life, and it’s one of the most used tools in my life design kit. Reframes help keep me sane. But Dave, who is one of the more important people in my life (in addition to being the co-author of DYL and a client for the better part of a decade,) recently gave me feedback on a personal project of mine that made me want to write something different. Dave wisely noted: “You are an incredibly intense person. There are virtually no moderate adjectives in your lexicon, or your experience. That will ..read more

In our last DYL newsletter, we asked you to share your advice to the 2022 graduating class. As usual, we were impressed by your thoughts. Here’s what the community had to say!   From Trevor in Columbu, Ohio, Grad 1995 –  “Don’t feel rushed. Your friends may be starting careers, getting married, buying houses. If this isn’t you, that’s FINE. That’s their path, not yours. There’s no finish line for where you are now…take your time, do what’s right for you. There’s no rush.”   From Gwen, Mechanical Engineer & Owner of BTF Designs –  “Apply to any job that looks interest ..read more