Courtesy of John Liu

Ahhh, this is such a great question and one I had a difficult time finding the answer to. A lot of other people out there apply lifestyle design to designing your life (particularly your job) to fit you and your personality. Timothy Ferriss first coined the phrase in his book 4-Hour Work Week: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich.

 The premise is that people must determine what is most important to their lives and design a (sometimes uncoventional) work life around those values rather than working 40+ hours for 40-50 years. And see, while that definition works, my problem is that I don't think life is all about work. I think it's something a lot more than that.

Obviously lifestyle design is about designing the life that you want. But what goes into designing that life? It's a combination of things and there is no simple answer. When I was finally done going through high school, then undergraduate, and then graduate school, I realized that I realllllllyyyy needed to work on my life because I had nothing in it besides school.

The first thing I did was develop some hobbies and this is where I suggest you start too. What hobbies do you enjoy doing? What makes you feel creative and inspired? What do you love doing? Never take these things for granted and make time in your life for them :)

I'll talk more about lifestyle design and what goes into it in my next post. Until then, what does lifestyle design mean to you?

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