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What would you change if it was shorter?

What if you woke up tomorrow and your biologial clock was reset so that you only had half as long to live? Let’s say that you just celebrated your 30th birthday. If the average lifespan is about 80 years that means you could probably expect to live for 50 more years.

Well imagine if you aged 25 years in your sleep so that you woke up at age 55. That means your expected remaining lifespan has been cut in half. Would you change your life? What if you were told you only had 10 good years left? Or just one? I know, it sounds like a cheesy Hollywood movie, kind of a more macabre version of Big. You know, it might not be so bad if Will Ferrell was in it.

As far as I know, life isn’t forever. Choosing to take control your life shouldn’t happen only after you’re diagnosed with a life-threatening illness or have some other life-altering moment. Heck, it could be too late then! Time is a non-renewable resource unless you’re Doc Brown and have souped-up a DeLorean. The key is to get the message now, when you’ve got time on your side. This is your wake up call.

Filming Your Own Life

Life is entirely what you make of it. It’s not something that just happens to you. Keeping with the movie references, don’t forget that you are the head writer, director, producer, set designer and lead actor/actress of the film that’s your life. If you don’t like how something in your life is going then you’ve got to edit it, redo it, or simply cut it. This is a tremendous opportunity. It gives you a huge amount of creative freedom, especially if you realize that there’s no standard design that you have to follow.

Being in control of your life also requires taking responsibility. If you choose to give up control then your life will spin out of control. If you surrender your life to your job, the almighty dollar, junk food, cigarettes or drugs, will you look back at your life with pride when you’re 60, 70 or 80 (assuming you’ll make it that far)? If you think that your life sucks then well, you’ve got one person to blame.

Living a fulfilling life means taking responsibility for the one thing that you truly own, yourself. Accept this and you will realize that you have all the tools needed to live a life that’s a blockbuster hit.

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BTW I didn’t know this but apparently you can buy a newly-built DeLorean starting at the low, low base price of $57,500 from the DeLorean Motor Company (Texas) a venture run by an entrepreneur named Stephen Wynne (not the Las Vegas casino developer - that’s Steve Wynn). I’m guessing the flux capacitor is an aftermarket part. Check it out at delorean.com.

Whew! Finally got this site up and running today!

The goal of this site is to help you take control of your life and begin designing the lifestyle that you always desired. As the pace of life speeds up all over the western world our lives are continually getting more stressful and unfulfilling. More people than ever are overweight, out of shape, stressed out, unmotivated and stuck in a rut. People might have well paying jobs but they’re spending more and plunging into deep debt. If your life is about working hard for little reward, my goal is to help you change that.

The Lifestyle Guru’s Story

Before I got into lifestyle design I was a boring guy. I had an office job without any windows and worked 60 plus hours a week. I was smart (I graduated near the top of my class), but was using my brain power to respond to emails and to draft memos that would inevitably end up collecting dust on someone’s desk. It seemed like I lived to work, leaving precious little time for the good things in life.

Working late hours was putting a strain on me. My marriage was great but it felt like I only got to see my wife on the drive to and from work and then again as we settled into bed. We didn’t have any kids, but our lifestyles wouldn’t have left much time for them anyways. By the time I got home I was usually exhausted: I would sit on the couch and watch t.v. (or worse, grumble about my job). What did I gain by this hardcore regimen? Well, I had gained nearly 30 lbs since my college days.

Was it worth it? As a result of our post-graduate degrees my wife and I were suffocating in debt. While we both earned decent money, it pretty much only covered the bills. If one of us lost our jobs we would have been screwed.

Time for a Change!

It was time for a major overhaul. Life is way too short to spend getting stressed at a job that you really don’t like while getting fat and out of shape. Spending it this way only makes it shorter. Life wasn’t meant to be a struggle, but an adventure where we explore, learn, thrive and contribute. I was smart but acting stupidly.

So I set down some basic goals. These basically boil down to being healthy, active, confident, financially comfortable, motivated and ambitious. Then I learned to push aside what was holding me back and began designing my life my way.

Lifestyle Design

Lifestyle design is about getting past what you perceive as your limitations and achieving a greater level of personal freedom. It means setting your own path instead of following in the well-worn path that most of society has carved out. This blog is a sort of experiment - my goal is to write about the amazing changes that everyone can achieve if they overcome their fears and take control of their lives. I aim to provide quality content that informs you about personal lifestyle design and inspires you.