Lifestyle Design 101: What is Lifestyle Design? (& 35+ Questions to Ask Yourself)
t’s been over a decade since Tim Ferriss helped popularize the concept of “lifestyle design” in his book The 4-Hour Workweek (Amazon).
After doing some recent research on the topic, I’m genuinely surprised how little quality information exists today. I assumed lifestyle design would have achieved some compounding momentum by now, but in many ways it seems to have fizzled out.
Perhaps that’s due to a narrow understanding of the concept. Lifestyle design doesn’t always mean working from your laptop on a beach, traveling full-time as a global nomad, or becoming a monk.
This post is intended to give you a more well-rounded view of the (literally) life-changing concept of lifestyle design—along with a bunch of questions to spark thinking about your own lifestyle.
The average lifespan is roughly 30,000 days. That’s a lot of repetition and experimentation to figure out your ideal way of life.
“If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.” — John Irving
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Lifestyle design is intentionally crafting a way of life (or style of living) that aligns with who you are.
Let’s start with the biggest popularizer of lifestyle design: Tim Ferriss. In this short video with Ryan Holiday, Ferriss shares his most recent definition of lifestyle design: