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    You Are Designed For Living
    You Are Designed For Living
    You Are Designed For Living
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    You Are Designed For Living

    By Robyn Wilson

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    In these rapidly and uncertain times, the ability to design our own lives is more important than ever before.

     

    'You Are Designed for Living: How to rewrite and design an inspired new life' is an easy to follow guide to creatively rewriting your life.

    Laying out a 7-step process for success drawn from the problem-solving methods of designers and creatives, this lifechanging book is filled with fun, easy and practical activities that will take you from where you are now to where you want to be. As you move through the process, the journal you keep will become your own personal record of your journey to rewrite your life creatively – a source of inspiration and motivation, a place to reflect upon your success.

     

    You'll save time, money and unnecessary effort with this guide. But most importantly, you'll gain the confidence to open a new chapter in a life of your own design.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRobyn Wilson
    Release dateNov 15, 2020
    ISBN9780648983910
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      Book preview

      You Are Designed For Living - Robyn Wilson

      You are designed for living title page

      First published 2020 by Robyn Wilson

      Produced by Independent Ink

      independentink.com.au

      Copyright © Robyn Wilson 2020

      All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the Australian Copyright Act 1968, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. All enquiries should be made to the author.

      Cover design by Daniela Catucci @ Catucci Design

      Edited by Elizabeth Turner

      Internal design by Independent Ink

      Typeset by Post Pre-press Group, Brisbane

      ISBN 978-0-6489839-0-3 (paperback)

      ISBN 978-0-6489839-1-0 (epub)

      ISBN 978-0-6489839-2-7 (kindle)

      Disclaimer

      The information provided in this book is general and not intended as individual advice. The information contained in this book does not negate personal responsibility of the reader for their own health and safety. The publisher and their employees, agents and authors are not liable for any injuries or damages caused under any circumstances or conditions as a result of reading or following the information in this book. It is always recommended to seek tailored and individualised independent advice.

      Contents

      Foreword

      Introduction

      The design thinking process framework

      The 7 key components of the designed for living process framework for success

      Section One: Inspiration

      Sources of inspiration and creating through design

      Section Summary

      Section Two: Focus

      Mindset being ‘At Cause’ not ‘At Effect’

      Work out what you want and what you want to achieve or improve

      SMART goals

      Pushing through boundaries – the deconstruction-reconstruction phase

      Motivation not procrastination

      Section Summary

      Section Three: Communicate

      The power of ‘I’

      Introductions and The Pitch

      Establishing rapport – using verbal and non-verbal (body language) techniques

      Effective listening techniques

      Networking and forming relationships

      Section Summary

      Section Four: Life Design Creation

      Values

      Life design tips and tools

      Section Summary

      Section Five: Produce Results

      As if now (fake it until you make it)

      Pattern Interrupts

      Alternate action

      Look after yourself

      Section Summary

      Section Six: Results Feedback

      Feedback not failure

      Methods to get feedback on your life design

      Section Summary

      Section Seven: Evaluate and make improvement

      Review and make change for improvement

      Be kind to yourself

      Celebrate success

      Where to from here

      Section Summary

      Conclusion

      Affirmations

      Glossary

      References

      Connect with Robyn

      Acknowledgements

      This book is dedicated to my three children Kyle, Eloise and Chloe.

      May your journeys be rewarding and bring you all the joy and happiness you truly deserve.

      Foreword

      In 2017 I sat at my laptop to dedicate time to writing this book. I have another trusty laptop, now it is a bit of a dinosaur, a very large and heavy MacBook Pro I bought around 2009. My clever son had to replace the hard drive last year and thankfully I did not lose anything, but I am still learning how this operating version organises and edits the photos.

      My Mac has seen me through the transition to a new life and an evolution of self which I began while studying Interior Design and Decoration between 2009 and 2012. On my trusty Mac, I dedicated many hours to refining my writing and photography skills on two blogs, one started in Townsville in late 2012 and the other when I relocated to Sydney in mid-2013. I affectionately called blogging ‘the keyboard of my life,’ as it saw my heart and mind unfold in an attempt to make sense of what was going on. I reached out to readers through what I termed ‘the umbilical cord of friendship’ of the Internet, and it was encouraging to read the comments and see that my blogs were reaching the far corners of the globe. It was a very cathartic experience.

      Funnily enough, when I was driving myself to Sydney in late June 2013 to start a new corporate position, I was intensely involved in my writing and photography, and intent on getting a newspaper or magazine column of my own. I had the thought that if the position in Sydney didn’t work out, I would just get in my 4WD and keep on driving, listening to music, taking photos, writing stories, interviewing people, and make my way around Australia.

      It was a lot of fun driving solo on the 3-day road trip, chatting to locals in the country, hearing their stories about where they had come from and where they were going, taking lots of photos and writing my blogs. I had a new GoPro on the dashboard (about which I had received a quick tutorial from a teenage neighbour who had used one to film his cross-country cycling adventures) on which I filmed short segments on the road while also voice recording my thoughts, observations and feelings while I was travelling.

      My Reverse Sea Change Road Trip (as I called it) was documented on ABC Open in a four-part multimedia guest blog titled ‘Robyn’s Road Trip’. This opportunity had come about because I had been involved with ABC Open in Townsville, with the aim of developing my writing and photography skills through publishing my work on the Regional ABC Open website.

      I got to know the ABC Open producer (who was very generous and extremely patient with budding creatives), through running workshops and giving helpful advice and feedback on submissions. Just before I left Townsville, he suggested a meeting so he could listen to my idea of blogging or journaling my solo road trip. He suggested I have a spot as a guest blogger on ABC Open but to improve the appeal for followers, I would need to add some video into the blog, along with my usual writing and photographic images, so after a short two-hour tutorial on how to capture and produce the video segments, I was set to go.

      When I finally left Townsville, it was with a few goals and dreams that I needed to explore. One was that I wanted to see how far I could go in the corporate world and the higher education system. Post-divorce, I had remained in Townsville, working in secondary schools and continuing to raise my children, but now they had grown up and moved on. I had turned 50 the previous year. The time was right. This is not to say that I did not enjoy the job or my students, but my initial training post-secondary school had been as an Applied Scientist and Home Economist with majors in Food and Textile Science and Technology, Housing and Management, and it was time to pursue some other career goals.

      Regarding my training as a Home Economist, we were the first students to be trained in this course in Queensland beginning in 1980. The name and role of a professionally trained Home Economist was not something recognised widely in Australia. Home Economists were known in relation to food testing for magazines and electricity or gas providers at the time but not much else. This course was meant to raise the profile and introduce the role into various industries. The course and outcomes appealed to me as it brought together many of the things that I enjoyed doing and had skills in.

      Although it was not easy to become recognised for the skills and education we learnt, I was fortunate to be offered a graduate training position with Myer as a junior fashion buyer. This would involve 6 months general retail training in the Brisbane store (I was living with my parents in Redcliffe at the time) before a prospective move to Melbourne for training as a fashion buyer. At the time, this was quite a prestigious offer and could well have led to overseas travel and work including seeing fashion shows to preview and purchase new fashion ranges for Myer.

      Unfortunately, the salary was quite low for a graduate trainee, and it would have meant eventually moving away from home, family and a boyfriend. I turned the offer down. Meanwhile, a few of the graduates from the course had decided to stay on another year at college and add a secondary or primary teaching qualification to their degree. I also decided to do this, as the salary for a first-year post graduate trained teacher was something like $14,000 and, with any luck, I would be able to stay near or at home when I got a teaching role.

      It turned out that my first teaching position in 1984 was at Sunnybank State High School in Brisbane. At the time, it was one of the largest high schools in Queensland, with around 100 teachers and 1700 students. My engagement and marriage followed, and the rest is history as they say.

      On reflection, would I have chosen the other path? Being a very shy girl and with the relationships I had at the time, it seemed inconceivable to make any other choice.

      There is no time or place now for regrets as I am well into my 50s, and every day is new and precious, so there is no need to live in the past. I have a responsibility to the little girl who I used to be, who read in bed and dreamt of the time when she would be writing her own books. That little girl who had a talent for drawing, an insatiable need to learn how things worked, loved reading and spent a lot of time in nature exploring, fishing or riding her bike. These were carefree times and years.

      She also fantasised about studying at NIDA (National Institute of Dramatic Art) and becoming a famous actor, learning to be a fashion designer and a famous author like Agatha Christie. Funny enough or not, many of these dreams have come to fruition (not necessarily the famous part – yet – or necessarily as she dreamed or imagined). I did get to go to NIDA on more than one occasion while living in Sydney, attending a course in professional public speaking for corporates in 2014 and attending other events there. I have had my own fashion and wearable art label since 2007, SoPrecious, and my writing work published in an online newspaper in Queensland, written as a Premium Content Contributor for the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Queensland, as well as publishing stories, blogs and photographs for ABC Open in Queensland, on my own blog sites in Townsville and Sydney, and writing articles on LinkedIn and other social media platforms. A highlight has been being published as a contributor to an anthology in the form of a coffee table book published in 2013 by The Writers in Townsville Society titled Voices of the North, after a small piece of verse I wrote as part of a

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