Resources for Designing What Comes Next

Practical tools and reflections to help you move from uncertainty to intentional action.

Free Worksheets

These worksheets are designed to help you reflect, clarify, and take small, meaningful steps toward your next chapter. They are practical, simple, and meant to be used at your own pace.

IDEA Cycle™ Reflection Worksheet

A four-step framework to explore possibilities, test small experiments, and learn your way forward with clarity and confidence.

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Life Design Playbook™

A practical planning worksheet to clarify your current state, define a meaningful future direction, and identify actions and resources to bridge the gap.

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Life Design Purpose Wheel™

A guided reflection tool to assess balance and alignment across six life dimensions, and highlight where energy, meaning, and attention are most needed.

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Life Design Sweet Spot™

A visual framework to identify where strengths, passions, values, and contribution intersect — revealing your emerging “sweet spot."

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From the Newsletter

Designing What’s Next is a monthly newsletter offering short reflections and practical insights to help you design a meaningful next chapter.

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How Many Thanksgivings Do You Have Left?

Rethink how you spend your time in retirement. A powerful reflection on priorities, relationships, and designing a meaningful second act—one intentional day at a time.

Why Most People Plan Their Careers but Drift Into Retirement

Design your second act with intention. Discover practical frameworks and real-life insights to avoid drift, gain clarity through action, and create a meaningful life after your career.

Breaking Autopilot: Designing Against Drift

Why freedom without structure quietly turns into drift.

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If you’re exploring what comes next — whether that’s a new direction, a slower pace, or a more meaningful way to contribute — the newsletter is the best way to stay connected.