We believe a life is the longest piece of design work you will ever do.

Most people live by default, with borrowed values, inherited timelines, and a career chosen at nineteen. The consequence isn't always unhappiness or unfulfilment - it can simply be a competence at the wrong life.

IKIGLOO exists for the curious explorers who would rather know what their life could look like if they allowed themselves to fully express who they are. Multi-passionate and multipotentialite minds who want to stop performing a version of themselves they never consciously chose. One little experiment and one little system at a time.

We created a 5-stage life design method to help you understand who you are at your core, and how to design a life that lets you express it fully, without leaving parts of yourself behind. It takes around nine weeks, and it might be just the one thing you need to lead a life that just fits.

The next nine weeks could be the most useful nine weeks you've spent on yourself in a long time.

Self-Discovery

Know who you truly are when no one is looking.

Before you choose a direction, you have to learn where you are coming from. We help you map everything you need to get to know yourself deeply.

• Personality

• Values

• Strengths

• Energy audit

• Shadow

• Limiting beliefs

• Life philosophy

• Fears

• Clarity compass

• Core identity

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Life Context

Map the life you're actually living.

A vision that ignores your life context is a fantasy. We help you to honestly survey your landscape so that your life design is built on reality.

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• Life chapters

• Wheel of life

• Life roles

Vision & Direction

Choose a story worth writing.

A vision is a specific, sensory picture of a life you want to experience, written in the present tense, tested against your values, signed by your future self.

• Bucket list

• Anti-vision

• Ideal lifestyle

• Odyssey plan

• Rocking chair

• Eulogy

• Future self letter

• Purpose

• Life vision

• Life manifesto

Strategy

Turn the dream into a real plan.

This is where the dreamy work meets calendars, money, energy budgets, and trade-offs. We help you design the next 90 days, the next year, and the brave moves you keep avoiding.

• Self-invention

• Living by your rhythm

• Career identity

• Career design

Intentional Living

Build the daily systems that help you stay yourself.

This is where you start living on your terms, where your vision becomes a reality one little experiment and one little system at a time.

• Alignment

• Problem statement

• What you're leaving

• Decision-making

• Resource audit

• Focus areas and goals

• Little bets (experiments)

What we cover:

• Project planner

• Habit tracker

• Monthly planner

• Weekly planner

• Daily planner

• Mindset and resilience

• Reflections

• Journaling

So, the real question is:
"Do you know yourself well enough to know what you're designing your life for?"

IKIGLOO's method walks you through 5 stages: self-knowledge, life context, vision, strategy, and daily practice (intentional living).
At every stage, you build the pieces that become your shelter: the tools, the clarity, and the self-awareness you need to design a life that actually fits and supports your life's unique story.

The Method

The examined life,
in five stages

So what's next?

A life design planner.
For the days you want to stay on your own path.

Through the life design method, you start composing your life rather than just reacting to it. That's how you move from a life that happens to you, to a life designed by you.

If you've done the method and would like to have a physical planner that you can touch and feel on your intentional living journey, we can deliver that, too.

Experimentalists

Club

A playground for curious adults.

Imagine a community for the kind of people who have 14 interests and refuse to pick one. We try things, build things, and learn from each other's experiments. Think of it as a lab for your life, run by the people inside it.

Journal

Freedom Was Never The Point

I spent seven years in a job that stopped making sense to me after about three. Which is a strange thing to admit, because it took me another two years to understand why - and then another two to convince myself that enough was actually enough and it was time to leave.

10 Life-Changing Tactics That Helped Me Build a Happier Life

I won't sugarcoat it. There have been many times in my life when I felt completely lost, questioning the purpose of my existence and the worth of my efforts. These feelings showed up early - spurred by the flaws and quiet cruelties I observed in the world around me.

How to Use The Wheel of Life to Bring More Balance & Fulfilment into Your Life

Think about your life for a minute. Does it feel somewhat off? Are you crushing it at work, but your relationships seem to experience constant problems?

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Freedom

We believe everyone should be able to live on their own terms. We help people reclaim their sense of agency and build a life that feels truly theirs.

Our values

Authenticity

We encourage radical self-awareness and identity clarity so you can walk your own path, instead of just following what's expected of you.

Meaning

We care about how many things on your to-do list actually matter to you. Your life should be about becoming "more yourself" in the world, instead of becoming "more fit" for the system.

Peace of Mind

The world is chaotic and you need a shelter built by your own hands. Life design should be driven by peace of mind, where your inner world meets your outer work.

Experimentation

You create your meaning by engaging in small life experiments and having an iterative mindset. We encourage you to test before you fully commit.

Intentionality

We believe in structures and systems, but only the ones that serve you. Intentionality is about composing the world around you in a way that fits you.

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