Life Design
There is something powerfully reflective about getting roughly halfway through life and wondering, ‘Is this as good as it gets? Am I really living the life I want in my career and in my family life?’ You might also wonder if you are doing the best you can for the people you work with and the people you care about. Most people never address, once and for all, what these ‘life’ questions actually mean for them. The questions are often asked but rarely answered.
Now imagine that you know your values and strengths and know what gives you energy. Imagine if you worked out your Who, What, With, Why, Where and When. Imagine if you really know what I call your Unique Life Fingerprint, that you decided to live a life that has been designed to allow you to use your best gifts and be your most authentic self. I call that your Best Life Design.
Over the past few years, I have worked with hundreds of people to understand their Unique Life Fingerprint and turn that into a Best Life Design. Having come from 30 years in C-suite roles, much of which was spent working in Strategy, I took the best of the methodology and turned it into a method to design your best life. In my book, THINK.PLAN.LIVE. I offer a workbook that can be used for self-coaching. It challenges you to create your best life.
THINK.PLAN.LIVE.
Your Unique Life Fingerprint and Life Design
Understand your Unique Life Fingerprint by working through THINK.PLAN.LIVE., the book, or working through the online portal. Or both. You can do this on your own, in a book circle (working with a group of people supporting one another to create your Life Designs) or with some coaching support.
Discover your Unique Operating Model and Gifts
Every one of us has gifts that are unique. When we use them, when we feel fully seen for these skills, we are functioning at our best. Sometimes it’s hard to recognise what our gifts are as we do them so naturally (and often believe everyone else can too). Some people need a bit of help to work out what these gifts are.
Executive, Career and Life Design
This is a full life design service: a pause, a time to fully integrate life and career in a deep dive with Gill. It is an intensive journey, one to one, for executives and senior leaders in Career and Life Design. This intense coaching program draws on my experience in C-suite roles, in strategy and in leadership. I use the THINK.PLAN.LIVE. methodology, mixed with Syntegrate thinking – Synthesis, Synergy and Integration – and other methods including HBDI and the Leadership Circle.
Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more.
If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.
- Oprah Winfrey
Let go of who you think you are supposed to be. Embrace who you are.
- Brene Brown, PhD
Leadership is hard to define and good leadership is even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader
-Indra Nooyi
I learned to always take on things I'd never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist.
- Virginia M. Rometty
I realized I was more convincing to myself and to the people who were listening when I actually said what I thought, versus what I thought people wanted to hear me say
- Ursula Burns
What I know is, that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfils you, the rest will come.
- Oprah Winfrey
We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.
- Arianna Huffington
Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
- Warren Buffett
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humur, and some style.
- Maya Angelou
If People are doubting how far you can go, go so far that you can't hear them anymore.
- Michele Ruiz
There is no passion to be found playing small- in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
- Maya Angelou
Look for 3 things in a person- Intelligence, energy & integrity. If they don't have the last one, don't even bother with the first two.
- Warren Buffett
The most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
- Mark Twain
The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else's highlight reel.
- Steve Furtick
Don't find fault, find a remedy. Anybody can complain.
- Henry Ford
If you aren't making a difference in other people's lives, you shouldn't be in business- it's that simple.
- Richard Branson
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
- Maya Angelou
The difference between successful people and really successful people, is that really successful people say no to almost everything.
- Warren Buffett
If you don't know what your passion is, realize that one reason for your existence on earth is to find it.
- Oprah Winfrey
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
- Oprah Winfrey
If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.
- Maya Angelou
Don't go around saying the world owes you nothing. It was here first
- Mark Twain
Success is commonly defined as money and power, but that's like a two-legged stool, and you will fall over if that's all that you measure your life by.
- Arianna Huffington
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbur. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
- Mark Twain
Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better do better.
- Maya Angelou
Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you.
- Dr. Seuss
The best advice I could give anyone is to spend your time working on whatever you are passionate about in life.
- Richard Branson
Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
Everyone who got where he is, has had to begin where he was.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
- Dr. Seuss
Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.
- Brene Brown
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do; you can act to change and control your life.
- Amelia Earhart
Your dreams don't work unless you do.
- John C. Maxwell
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page
- St. Augustine
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.
- C.S. Lewis
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
- Henry David Thoreau
Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.
- Dr. Seuss
Live as is you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
- Mahatma Gandhi
If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than 5 minutes.
- Albert Einstein
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made feel them.
- Maya Angelou