Design Your Life: How to Create a Meaningful Life, Advance Your Career and Live your Dreams

by Cornelia Shipley, Marshall Goldsmith (Foreword), April Carter Grant (Cover and Layout Designer)

It really is possible to live a life of YOUR design! To craft a career that empowers you to your unique definition of success and fulfillment! To truly live out your dreams - daily, rather than waiting for "some day." In Design Your How to Create a Meaningful Live, Advance Your Career and Live Your Dreams, Cornelia Shipley gives you the exact tools and formula to do just that! Cornelia's message is You can be the architect of your own existence. In this book, you will learn the tools and processes she uses to guide her private clients to finally make the shifts in their life that leave them feeling successful, happy, fulfilled, and in charge of their future. You will • How to define and build your strongest foundation - allowing you ACT from confidence • How to create your Personal Brand - establishing what you stand for & what others can expect from you • How to define your Personal Operating Principles - allowing you to make powerful choices of what's exactly right for you • How to create your Personal Definition of Success - ensuring that the results you achieve are the results YOU want, not what another might want for you • How to establish your Personal Reward System - ensuring that you stay motivated along the journey • How to develop your Success Mindset - giving you the power of your own thinking to propel you forward to your designed life. Along the way, you'll find "Designed Action" exercises that easily guide you toward designing your future. This is a discovery process that you will not only enjoy, but that have a positive impact on your life and future like no other! Whether you desire to move up the corporate ladder, find a new creative outlet, or simply learn to love the journey, Your How to Create a Meaningful Live, Advance Your Career and Live Your Dreams provides a clear and infinitely practical program that will allow you live on purpose, with passion and powerful intentions for everything that matters most to you.

Genres: Self Help

150 pages, Paperback

First published April 16, 2014

Reviews

[Rob Clifton]

Thought-provoking guidance and instruction

This book will walk you through the process of designing the life you truly want, utilizing insightful questions and clear instructions. If you believe that you are the builder of your future, this book is your blueprint.

[Jen Turrell]

I really enjoyed reading this book. Cornelia has a very clear and simple way of walking the reader through questions and exercises that help you to realize how much we tolerate in life just because that's the way it's always been when we can make active decisions to design our lives differently. For instance, one of my favorite tips was to create clear criteria for saying no and yes to things. Make clear boundaries so it is very easy to see if a new project or activity will fit into your life the way you want it to. If you always want to spend evenings with our partner, then you default to no for anything that interferes with that unless it is truly urgent and important. Another tip that I really loved is to look at the things in your life that you are tolerating because you always have, but which you would really like to be different. We can go through our whole lives tolerating things that we could actually change. All it takes is someone like Cornelia to make us stop and recognize it.

[Harrah Hanh Tran]

Came across this book on my friend’s shelf last week. I found it easy and pleasant to read since it covers only 6 chapters (spoiler :D). I would say this book is an easy-to-navigate way to help its reader arrive at their purposes quickly. By demonstrating designed actions for every issue in the process of designing life, the author is successful in shifting her philosophy and mindset into a productive strategy which helps show step-by-step guidance for readers to become wise creators of their own life.
One last thing, though it is not time-consuming to finish the book, you may have to spend more of your time implementing your own design practices while reading.