In the world of lifestyle design, there is nothing right or wrong. There is only what is right for you and wrong for you.
With the last year of following a path to the life I desire, I feel it is only right to describe my perspective of approaching lifestyle design. Especially after the latest talks surrounding the article by Corbett Barr at Free Pursuits entitled Is Lifestyle Design Already Dead?. My approach to lifestyle design is to work towards a life that has multiple sources of passive income, allows training for whatever sport I am attempting, allows for time with family and friends, allows travel at anytime to anywhere, and makes me happy. That definition for lifestyle design is similar to many others, but very much my own. It is neither right nor wrong. It is just mine.
Many of you may have found that lifestyle design seems to be a bunch of young people trying to live without responsibility and without a “real” job. This just may be the case for many lifestyle design artists, but not for all of them including myself. I love responsibility if I want to take on challenges that I feel are important to me. I love working and would work 60 hours as a security guard if I was passionate about being a security guard. What I love more is designing my own life like that of Cody McKibben and Colin Wright. No, I am no where near their level of success at it…right now. However, I am on a path to reach their level while maintaining the goals and dreams of my own design.
There is no easy or direct path to a life that you design. I believe designing your life is one of the best things to do, but getting from point A to Z is everything but easy. Though the journey is long, arduous, and tough, it is half the fun of trying and attaining the lifestyle design you want.
A key factor to finding and developing the lifestyle design you would like is derailing the notion that there is a way it’s all supposed to be done. If I tried to follow any of the many bloggers who are practicing this lifestyle to a ‘T’, I would fail horribly. All I can do is take their advice, implement all of their suggestions to the goals I have set up and start tripping over myself to the finish line of life.
Lifestyle design is all about your life. Stop asking what steps to take to get to your successful lifestyle design. If I told you what steps to take, you would hate me 6 months later because you didn’t get to where I am. This is your life so lay out your goals and start kicking butt to achieve them. All lifestyle designers will give their advice, but none of them are right or wrong for your life.
ASK – IMPLEMENT- ACHIEVE
David Damron
LifeExcursion
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Nice post Dave. I agree that following the footsteps of others is going to cause a lot of problems along the way, including making us feel frustrated or unhappy if we are not achieving the same things that other people are. We can take their advice, but ultimately it comes down to believing ourselves and creating a journey out of our own actions – not somebody else’s.
Great post. For me lifestyle design is a way to do more of what I love, knowing that the only limit is inside my head and that I can live the life I want.
I’ve never understood all the arguing over what lifestyle design is or what it isn’t. And I’ve definitely never understood the cookie cutter versions of lifestyle design that have everyone working on an internet biz on the beach in Thailand. It’s something that is supposed to be tailored to an individual. It’s about being unique and following your own path, whatever that may be. So good for you for doing that.
Isn’t lifestyle design whatever you design your life to be? Whether it’s a traditional job, or traveling around that’s the lifestyle you’ve designed for yourself.
I just wonder for those in their 20′s who after 5 years of traveling and going the untraditional route, is the plan to do an MBA or something and get back into tradition?