Designing your life
At FighterFITX, we believe that designing your life is a crucial process, and it involves four key steps. The first step is to gather and create options that align with your goals and aspirations. This step involves exploring different opportunities, prototyping experiences, and having good insights about yourself to generate viable options. We encourage you to approach this step with a curious mindset and a bias for action, rather than overthinking.
The second step is to narrow down your list of options to your top alternatives. This step can be overwhelming, but it is essential to choose with confidence. You should not agonize over whether you've done the right thing or not. Instead, you should focus on making discerning decisions by applying more than one way of knowing. This step requires you to apply cognitive judgement alongside other ways of knowing.
The third step is to choose your top option discerningly. Once you have narrowed down your list of options, it's time to make a choice. Choose one option and embrace it fully as your reality for the next one to three days. Live as if you've already made the decision and explore how it feels. After this period, reset and do the same with the other options.
Finally, the fourth step is to let go of unnecessary options and move on. At FighterFITX, we encourage you to get lots of options, cull your list down to a short and manageable size (five max), make the best choice that you can given the time and resources available, and build your way forward. It's essential to remember that if you're doing this with prototype iteration, you don't have too much at stake, and you will be able to adjust as you go before you really reach a significant investment.
We recommend Bill Burnett & Dave Evans' book "Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life" for further reading on the life design process. By following these four steps, you can design a life that aligns with your goals and aspirations, and ultimately leads to a more fulfilling and joyful existence.
At FighterFITX, we believe that prototyping is an essential part of the life design process. We encourage our clients to experiment with different options and try out new experiences, so that they can learn more about themselves and what they want out of life. This might involve trying out a new hobby, taking a class in a new subject, or volunteering for a cause they care about. By prototyping different options, our clients can gain valuable insights into their own preferences, strengths, and weaknesses, which can help them make more informed decisions about their future.
In conclusion, the life design process involves four key steps: gathering and creating options, narrowing down your list, choosing discerningly, and letting go of unnecessary options and moving on. Prototyping is an important tool that can help you build and test your ideas in a low-risk environment, so that you can learn what works and what doesn't. At FighterFITX, we believe in the power of prototyping to help our clients design a well-lived, joyful life. We recommend the book "Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life" by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans for further reading on this topic.
