The Life Brief
A Playbook for No-Regrets Living
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- $17.99
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- $17.99
Publisher Description
“If you want to be happier, you should write a Life Brief.” —Fast Company
“A brilliant companion on the road to more aliveness. This book is a wonderful invitation. Take it.” —Dave Evans #1 New York Times bestselling author of Designing Your Life
Life is a creative act. Let The Life Brief guide you to creating the life of your dreams.
We all have moments when we doubt the path we’re on. Is this the career for me? Am I in the right relationship? Is this as good as it gets? These questions can feel uncomfortable without a method for uncovering the answers.
Enter The Life Brief, a simple yet effective playbook for navigating life’s decisions, crossroads, and curve-balls. Modeled after the creative brief, a tool used by the most innovative companies in the world to unlock clarity and unleash action, The Life Brief carves a path for living with intention and imagination.
Designed by leading brand strategist Bonnie Wan, The Life Brief is a practice in three parts: The first phase, Get Messy, is a set of open-ended writing prompts that cut through limiting beliefs and false assumptions about what’s possible. The second phase, Get Clear, offers prompts for finding clarity around what you truly, deeply want. The third phase, Get Active, catapults you into the steps to making those desires a reality.
This is a practice for unpacking complexity with curiosity, shifting attention to drive action, and challenging the limiting beliefs that create friction in your life. This powerfully adaptive tool has transformed thousands of lives, from refining career paths to repairing relationships, rediscovering passion to cutting through overwhelm. Don’t let another moment pass you by. Discover The Life Brief and unlock your path today.
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Wan, head of brand strategy at advertising agency Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, marries branding tactics with self-help in this sturdy debut guide to discovering what "you really, really want." Despite a "picture-perfect" life, in 2010 Wan found herself "drowning and depleted and full of questions" about her marriage and career. She decided to use the questions she normally asked her advertising clients to pinpoint her own priorities and "unlock real and lasting change." To achieve similar clarity, readers can "get messy" by doing a daily "brain dump" (writing continuously and freely for a set amount of time), reflecting on the results, and shaping them into their own Life Brief—"five clear, bold, declarative statements about what you want in the areas of your life that matter most," which are then summed up in a sharp, catchy "handle" that "you can use to guide your decisions." While readers may want to skip some of the extended and plodding backstory about how Wan devised the Life Brief tool to save her marriage, they'll appreciate her forthright approach and pertinent questions ("Whose life am I living?"; "How do you want to be remembered?"). Those who are sick of wishy-washy self-help will find much to gain.