Designing Your Life - Part 2

I’m glad I chose Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans for the first selection of my new online book club, Books to Inspire Creativity. It was a great read to begin our creative journey together, but it also helped me as I’ve been thinking about how I want to manage this book club in the future. I feel like this was an exercise to try some ideas, and I will build on this experience for future selections and discussions.

Creative lessons from this book:

• If you haven’t read my last blog post about this book (or need a refresher), be sure to check it out here.

• Let yourself have wild ideas! Don't be too quick to judge if an idea is "good" or not.

• Test drive your ideas. You wouldn't buy a car without a test drive. It's a good idea to "prototype" your plans and try them out before making a big commitment.

• Don't fall in love with your first idea. The first idea is often not the most creative one.

• You never finish designing your life - life is a joyous and never-ending design project of building your way forward.

• The end result of a well-designed life is a life well lived.

Action Items:

• If you haven’t finished this book, I encourage you to take some time to read it. I read it once all the way through, and then I went back and tried to apply the ideas to my own life.

• Consider keeping a notebook or journal nearby as you read. I like to make highlights and notes in my Kindle app. If you really want to utilize these ideas, you might enjoy the workbook by the authors. Totally optional, of course.

• If you have any thoughts you would like to share about the book, feel free to post in the online book club. Or you may enjoy sharing a review on Amazon or Goodreads.

Are you ready for the next selection? Stay tuned for the next blog post!

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