Sound familiar?
Successful by most measures. Not sure why that stopped feeling like enough.
"I keep telling myself this is just a phase. But I've been saying that for two years."
"Sunday nights carry a specific weight now."
Maybe you've journaled, read the books, asked for advice. You gain some insight, lose the momentum, and nothing sticks. That's usually because there was never a real process behind it.
Start here
It starts with an honest read across five areas of your life.
Most people assume the job is the problem. It rarely is, at least on its own. Health, work, play, purpose, and relationships are connected parts of one system, and when one runs low long enough, the others feel it too. So you look at the whole picture first.
The lowest gauge is a friction point. The highest is a flow state. The gap between them is where the work starts.
The Good Life Design System
A structured process for designing what's next.
The same structured methodology used to build world-class products, applied to the decisions that actually shape your life.
Five phases. Each one feeding the next.
Without Good Life Design
- A vague sense something needs to shift, but no way to name it
- Insight that arrives without traction and fades
- One big bet, made on intuition, hope, and timing
- Advice from people who don't have your data
With Good Life Design
- A specific, named tension surfaced from real data, not guesswork
- Structure that produces decisions, not just reflection
- Multiple futures designed and tested before committing to any
- A process that belongs to you, built on evidence, not assumption
Writing
A short piece every Sunday.
What I'm learning, what I'm testing, and the tools that help. It's free, and it's the best way to see whether this approach is for you.
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Work with Mike
The Good Life Design Compass
Clarity on what's pulling you back. Honesty about what's pulling you forward.
A single one-on-one session built to do one thing well: take an honest reading of where you stand and find out which direction actually has the most pull. You'll walk away knowing what's really going on, and what to do first.
- Go through your check-in together and confirm your friction point.
- Dig underneath it to find what's really going on.
- Design one small experiment you can actually run next week.
What you leave with
One clear insight about where you stand, and one concrete next step. Not a binder. Not a framework deck.
What it isn't
Not therapy, and not a pep talk. No pitch at the end. It's useful on its own.
I'm piloting it now, free, with a small number of people. The way in is the free Compass Check-In: at the end, you can ask for a session.
A little about me
Hi, I'm Mike.
"The life you want isn't something you find. It's something you design."
I've spent my career in UX research and design, figuring out why products don't fit the people using them. Now I'm applying that thinking to a harder problem: designing a life that fits. I'm still mid-experiment myself, and every week I write about what I'm learning.