Most lives are inherited. Yours doesn't have to be.
Life design for people with too many lives inside them and too much curiosity to squeeze themselves into just one.
We believe a life is the longest piece of design work you'll ever do.
Most people live by default, with borrowed values, inherited timelines, and a career chosen at 19, ending up with a life that happened to them rather than one they intentionally designed. Some people have the opposite problem: too many possible lives, all of them real, none of them chosen.
IKIGLOO is for the second kind. The people who want to understand themselves before deciding what to build, and who would rather experiment their way into a life that holds all their curiosity rather than settle for a life that just makes sense to others.
You've probably been told to pick a lane your whole life.
To pick a major, a career, maybe to find your one thing. But you've got 14 interests, 3 career ideas, and a bucket list that keeps growing each year.
You don't just want to settle on one major thing and have some smaller side quests. What you want is to build an interesting life that actually represents who you are inside. To have a meaningful career, consult, volunteer, have a side hustle (maybe three), publish a book, travel the world, try unique foods, build a community, learn ceramics, read books, explore contradictory ideas, experiment, and do all kinds of things that let you live a life you're excited to wake up to.
Everyone around you seems to have figured out the "one thing", while you're sitting there with a notes app full of half-started plans, wondering if there's something wrong with you. There is not. You just haven't figured out what a life that contains all of you might look like - yet.
Feel like you're torn between five different lives instead of choosing one path? This quiz will help you map out what's driving each one, so you can stop trying to pick a single path and start building.
What is your life constellation?
Self-Discovery
Before you choose a direction, you have to learn where you're coming from. We help you map everything you need to get to know yourself better.
Life Context
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.
Vision & Direction
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.
Strategy
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.
Daily Practice
This is where you start living on your terms and where your vision becomes a reality one little experiment and one simple system at a time.
Our life method walks you through five key stages: self-discovery, life context, vision and direction, strategy, and daily practice. At every stage, you build the clarity, the tools, and the plans you need to design a life that fits your whole being. Your personality, your curiosity, and your reality.
The Life Design Method
The examined life made practical
Before you can design your life, you need to know what you're actually trying to build.
If the life design method works the way we think it does, this will be the best investment you've ever made in yourself.
A Life Design Planner
The IKIGLOO planner holds your identity work, your goals, your experiments, and your daily practice in one book. Designed for 6 months and undated, so you start when you're ready.
Reviews
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- Cristina
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- Despoina
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- Victoria
“How gorgeous is this planner?! The fact it is undated means you can start RIGHT NOW. No more excuses.”
- Vicki
Experimentalists
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A PLACE FOR CURIOUS ADULTS
A private circle for people who have at least 14 interests, 3 career ideas, and a bucket list that just keeps growing. We talk about things, 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.
Know yourself.
Design your life.
Try things.
Three tools that work together
THE NEWSLETTER
Blueprint to Being
A newsletter for curious adults building a life around who they actually are, one intentional piece at a time.
Journal
Interviews & Conversations
A space for people figuring out what to do with their lives by getting to know themselves better and by actually trying things.
The Newsletter
Blueprint to Being is a newsletter for curious adults building a life around who they actually are, one intentional piece at a time. If this resonates with you, subscribe below.
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