A good life can still be lived more intentionally.
As life gets fuller, our attention naturally goes to what is immediate, leaving less room to consider what matters most. And work, family, health, relationships, community, wealth and ourselves all compete for our time and energy.
Life by Design creates the space to look at your life as a whole. To see what is working, where you may have drifted, and what deserves your attention.
Because a life that matters deserves to be lived with intention.
The Pillars
Five domains. One life.
Life is not lived in separate parts. Each domain shapes and is shaped by the others.
Me
Your relationship with yourself. Your physical and mental wellbeing, energy, growth, interests, and how you experience life.
Family
Your closest relationships. How you love, connect, communicate, and contribute to the people who matter most.
Community
Friendship, belonging, and connection beyond your family. The people and places you’re part of and the contribution you make to them.
Work
What you do with your time, energy, and ability. Your effort, contribution, growth, and the role it plays in your life.
Wealth
Your relationship with resources and the choices it enables. The opportunities, security, and freedom to live the life you design.
Outcomes
What becomes possible
Clarity and alignment
Get clear on what matters across all five domains, and bring your life into greater alignment with it. Not a fixed plan for the future, but a clearer sense of what matters now and the ability to keep adapting as life ebbs and flows.
Capacity and perspective
Build the physical, mental and emotional capacity to live well. Greater awareness of your health, energy, time and attention, alongside the perspective to respond more consciously to life rather than simply being carried by it.
Connection and contribution
Deepen the relationships and communities that matter. Be part of a group where you are seen, heard, supported and challenged, while exploring how your life and experience can contribute more to others and the world around you.
The Process
How it works
- 1
Discover where you are
Explore your life across the five domains. Notice what’s working, what’s not, and where your attention has drifted.
- 2
Get clear on what matters
Clarify what matters to you now. Not an idealised version of life, but one grounded in your values, priorities and reality.
- 3
Design how you will live
Turn that clarity into intention. Decide where your time and energy are going, and the practises that support that direction.
- 4
Put it into practise
Life will interrupt your plans. Your group and guide help you stay connected to what matters through rhythm, reflection and perspective.
- 5
Review, learn and evolve
Step back regularly. Notice what’s changed, what you’ve learned, and what matters now, then adjust accordingly.
Step One
You start with people, not a program.
You join a small group of people at a similar place in life, each bringing different experiences, perspectives and questions. You move through Life by Design together.
Over time, you get to know each other beyond the surface. You listen, share, reflect, support and challenge each other, creating a space for conversations that rarely happen in everyday life.
A group where you can be seen, heard, supported and challenged, and where different perspectives help you see your own life more clearly.
Step Two
See your life as an integrated whole.
The Pillars Discovery gives you the space to step back and explore your life across the five domains and the pillars within them.
You begin to see what is working, what matters most, where your attention is going and where something may be asking for more of you. Not a scorecard or a verdict, but a clearer picture of your life as it is today.
Perspective on where you are, clarity on what matters, and a place from which to begin.
Step Three
Turn clarity into practise.
Once you can see what matters, you begin translating that clarity into the way you live.
You choose a small number of practises that bring your time, energy and attention into greater alignment with what matters to you. Then you put them into practise, learn what works and adjust as life changes.
Small, intentional practises that become part of how you live.
Step Four
A rhythm that keeps you connected.
Life by Design moves in a simple fortnightly rhythm. One fortnight you meet with your group. The next, you meet one-to-one with your guide.
The group brings connection, shared experience and perspectives beyond your own. Your guide creates the space to make it personal, explore what is emerging and bring the work back to your life.
Then you live it. Reflect on it. And return.
Group. Guide. Life. A rhythm of reflection, perspective and practise.
Step Five
What changes in you reaches beyond you.
Living with greater clarity and intention changes more than your own experience of life. It shapes how you show up in your relationships, your work, your family and your community.
As you become more aligned with what matters, you have greater capacity to be present, to connect and to contribute. Life by Design begins with your life and naturally extends to the people around you.
Live well. Connect deeply. Contribute meaningfully.
Data & Impact
Live well, live longer, and have the data to show for it
Your physical capacity shapes how fully you can live your life. Energy, sleep, movement, stress and recovery all influence your day-to-day experience, and your long-term health.
Through the Garmin wearable and The Pillars Data, you gain access to data that helps you see what’s happening beneath the surface. We bring this into the programme alongside how you feel, how you are living, and what matters to you.
The numbers are not the goal. They are a second lens, helping you make clearer choices about your health, vitality and longevity.
Better information. Greater awareness. A longer, healthier life in which to live what matters.
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