Here is an interesting TEDx Talk about applying product design principles to life design or re-design. Bill Burnett discusses some of our dysfunctional beliefs related to finding our passion and how they prevent us from moving forward. His five ideas on how to re-design your life are:
- connect the dots between your values and what you do;
- understanding ‘gravity’ problems that you just have to live with;
- imagining three alternate lives for yourself;
- prototyping your future life by talking to people who are already living it and trying it on; and
- choosing well by not getting overloaded by too many options and by keeping your peripheral vision open.
Bill says on his blog: “People get stuck. Our students get stuck, people get stuck in mid-career. People are retiring in some cases earlier and they have a much better health span. They’re gonna be healthy for another 20, 25 years. That’s a whole nother career. You can’t just go golfing for 25 years. So this is a big problem. But how do you know your stock? Well, you’ve taken an assessment the last 12 months you’ve come to work and you had to drag your ass outta bed every Monday morning and there’s nothing, you’re not curious about anything you’re doing anymore cuz you’ve just been doing it for so long that it isn’t interesting. So the stuck feeling is like numb, like your brain’s numb, your head’s numb, your heart’s numb. So it takes a little bit of work to identify it, but once you’ve identified it, then, then the mindsets of curiosity and reframing come into play. And so you get curious, you start talking to people and you try different things and then you, you tell your story.”
Counseling with Elaine Korngold
Career counseling and general mental health counseling can help people work through the process or life design or re-design.