For leaders ready to trade
burnout and autopilot for
clarity, calm, and conscious impact

Living by Design is your guide to slowing down, showing up with intention, and creating values-aligned
results in your business, relationships, and within yourself.

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This isn’t just a book – it’s an invitation to lead and live differently.

You’ve achieved a lot. But if success has come at the cost of joy, well-being, or integrity, this book offers a way back.

Living by Design [not by default] will help you:

  • Reconnect with your values
  • Make conscious, sustainable choices
  • Lead with more peace, power, and purpose
  • Build a life and business that truly sustains you

Each essay offers practical shifts, grounded insights, clarity-building questions, and tools that will serve you for years to come. A thematic index guides you through the related articles on topics such as:

  • Work-Life Balance and Sustainable Success
  • Intentional Living and Life by Design
  • Values-Driven Leadership and Integrity
  • Inner Growth, Self-Awareness, and Pattern Breaking
  • Freedom, Autonomy, and Redefining Success
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  • Curate life & work on YOUR terms

    This collection of bite sized, honest bits of inspirational and practical actionable advice, should be at the ready for anyone in leadership and frankly, life.
    Melissa Boher Jacobson
    Founder – Confident Life Coaching & Hypnotherapy

  • What a potent idea this is!

    What a potent idea this to make room for miracles!
    When we concentrate on removing the mental and physical clutter to make room for new chances, incredible things can happen
    Jennifer Thomason
    Bookkeeping Services for Small Businesses

  • Very excited about the assessment tool

    There is so much goodness here! Self-Refection creates magnificent shifts in our world.
    Jackie Roby
    Self-Doubt Dismantler | Relationship Mindset Coach

  • This article sheds crucial light …

    … on the often-overlooked issue of creeping burnout. regular self checks like you suggest here are vital for sustainable success.
    Dr. Michael Thiemann
    Elite Business Strategist with Fortune 500 Companies

Bonus for early signup

Save your place on the waiting list and get access to these exclusive launch bonuses:

🟡 The Implementation Clinic – a live, small-group session to help you turn insights into action
🟡 The Living by Design Leadership Journal – a downloadable companion workbook with reflective prompts, planning tools, and more to ensure you get the most from your time investment

You’ll only receive these valuable bonuses if you’re on the waiting list on the launch day.

Default is not your destiny. Design is your invitation.

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FAQs

No! This is completely #writtenbyhuman. This is real-life stuff. No bots included.

I didn’t set out to write one, I wrote an article roughly every week for a newsletter on LinkedIn. The essays/reflections/insights were based on my own experiences, my life, what I heard from clients and my observations of people and events around me. Then, someone suggested I publish them and hey-presto it’s done in about 4 weeks! So – while I’m no writing expert – if you want to write a book, you could do worse than write something every week for a year and then paste it all together and see what it’s like!

Nothing. If you get on the waiting list before launch date, you’ll get access to a bonus (free) workshop/clinic and the accompanying workbook. But beyond you (hopefully) buying the book, I’m not selling anything else.

The clinic will be a small group live session with me, online. We’ll talk about how to implement the ideas in the book most effectively into your life right away. I intend to keep the group small enough to be able to chat individually and help each person find the most beneficial way for them to get a head start after reading the book. The accompanying workbook will help you dive into your situation, get clarity on what will move the needle most for you, and start doing that quickly.

About Me

After 25 years experience in the corporate world and over a decade as a serial business owner, I don’t believe burnout needs to be the cost of doing meaningful work. I believe burnout comes from building on the wrong blueprint – not taking into account the impact of business on people.

That broke me, but I reinvented myself and now live the life of my dreams on the coast. I coach business leaders and professionals to find their own dream life by leading themselves first – from the inside out.

This book contains easy to access articles full of hard-won wisdom and simple, actionable steps to evolve towards a better way of working and living.