Life by Design: Life by Choice...Not by Chance

by Rick Brinkman

"Life by Design" is a lifestyle management system that helps you take charge of your well-being. You do this by making choices-in all areas of your life-that promote optimum physical and emotional health.

47 pages, Audiobook

First published January 1, 1993

Reviews

[Enrico Graziani · Rating 5 out of 5]

How come we don't get this at school
This Bible should be mandatory

[Jane · Rating 2 out of 5]

I found this book in a pile of castoffs and thought it looked promising. I put it off to the side for a long time with the intention (oh, how the weight of intentions is actually a burden) of reading and going through the exercises. Now, it was actually an enjoyable read and I’m sure there are perspectives in it that still have merit, or I wouldn’t have taken it as seriously as I did (prior experience with the authors’ work also contributed). However, sitting down to do the exercises occupied the better part of a summer, and then probably the better part of a year. It became burdensome and ultimately, even though I came to create my own version of this concept (a hobby-horse mistake), I came to the fulsome conclusion that making a “plan” for life, when we can only see ourselves and our roles very dimly and we can’t see the future at all, is an almost futile act. You need to work at a real honest job, and if you’re lucky, your leaders will see that you have potential and take an interest in developing it. If they don’t, you need to find out what roles your job could be a stepping stone towards, either there or elsewhere, and make an effort to reach out and advance into those roles. You need to pay attention to social skills and to the people who help you thrive, and also how you can assist others. You can’t do that in a “plan,” you do it based on ideas and conversations and deliberate choices or accidental discovery. You just have to keep asking *other people,* and participating in the competitions that enable you to be chosen. This is almost never “according to plan,” it’s work. As for the non-job aspects of your life: you can hardly plan for them either, but working at them is non-exempt. If planning like such actually works for you, you’re in the minority of people (or you’re insufficiently sceptical of your efforts). Don’t get caught up in planning and pondering: action and outreach are the only things that really make you live a life.

[Karem Darwesh · Rating 5 out of 5]

من أجمل كتب ال Self-Management اللي ممكن تقرأها ، هتشرحلك جوانب كتير في حيات و ازاي تخطط و تزاي تنظم و قتك و ازاي تلتزم و حاجات مختلفة .. انا قرأته بالانجليزي بس الكتاب اترجم برده للغة العربية بس الترجمة مش اوي

[J Crossley · Rating 4 out of 5]

How to help yourself be the best you can be in this confusing, loud world.