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244: Design The Life You Love with Ayse Birsel

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Named by Fast Company as one of the 100 most creative people in the world, Ayse Birsel is giving us a special preview of her Deconstruction + Reconstruction process to Design the Life You Love at this crucial inflection point of halfway through the madness that is 2020.

In this Momentum Book Club (a live Pivot podcast taping with my private community for heart-based business owners), Ayse walks us through two key exercises: identifying your superpowers and kryptonite, then mapping what to keep and let go of across four key areas as we enter the second half of the year.

📝 Check out full show notes from this episode with links to resources mentioned at http://pivotmethod.com/244

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More About Ayse Birsel

Ayse (pronounced Eye-Shay) Birsel is one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People 2017 and is on the Thinkers50 Radar List of the 30 management thinkers most likely to shape the future of organizations. She is the author of Design the Life You Love and gives lectures on Design the Work You Love to corporations.

Ayse is the co-founder of Birsel + Seck, the award-winning design and innovation studio, and consults to Amazon, Colgate-Palmolive, Herman Miller, GE, IKEA, The Scan Foundation, Staples and Toyota, among others. Her work can be found in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).

More about Momentum: Private Community for Heart-Based Business Owners

Five years ago, I created the community that I wish I had when I was building my business, and I share every mistake I have made to hopefully shave years off of your own business and creative struggles. On the surface Momentum is about testing new ideas, sharing resources, getting feedback, and encouraging others.

But really it is about systematizing innovation and joy in our work.

It is about busting out of ruts by experimenting with small ideas, through the added benefit of community and accountability. It’s certainly our goal (if not obsession!) to help you earn back the cost of enrollment and then some—ideally 10X’ing your revenue and saving time every single month as a result of the systems and strategies we share.

Learn more and enroll at Pivot.love/momentum.

We offer a 30-Day 100% money-back guarantee, so if you look around, start the Pivot to Profit on-boarding course, and decide it’s just not a fit, no worries and no questions asked! We’re happy to issue a refund, as we only want to work with people form whom Momentum sparks joy as a business no-brainer :)

Topics We Cover

  • “I consider our life the greatest design project” 

  • We can all design our lives; it doesn’t require special skills

  • Ayse’s deconstruction: reconstruction method 

  • We have an innate capability to think differently about our life and work, but we can’t do it alone

  • Four steps: deconstruction, point of view, reconstruction, expression

  • Elements of thinking like a designer: Optimism, Empathy, Holistic Thinking, Collaborative, What if? Playful

  • What are your superpowers? What is your kryptonite? 

  • What would you like to have more of in your life? Less? 

  • Reconstruction: How do we move forward? Pick 3 essential things and 1 to avoid - across family, work, friends, and well-being.

  • The importance of creative rituals, repetition

  • What’s your Original Stance? 

  • What to do when feeling blocked by a blank page

  • “Whatever I do is all about people” 

Resources Mentioned

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