Life By Design
The coaching process we deliver will lift you above the ups and downs of life. You will have a greater context - a strategic context - in which to pursue your most important dreams and goals.
What It Involves
Understand
Who You Are
Engage in a co-creative journey with a strategy coach to build a comprehensive understanding of your personal "ingredients".
Design
What You Want
Armed with all your ingredients, design a path forward with the Hallmark Framework* as you look out 1, 3, and 10 years.
Build
As You Go
Travel your journey in 90-day sprints, learning as you go in an exciting, iterative process of increasing success.
Living life by design through a coaching partnership empowers you to break free from default habits, proactively align daily actions with your life goals, and craft a meaningful legacy in your most impactful years.
* The 6 Hallmarks Framework. Think of the Hallmarks as six different perspectives for how you envision your chosen path and also how you process each of the ups and downs of your journey. The principle is to define what ideal looks like for each of the Hallmarks. That becomes the benchmark for you to evaluate progress. The Hallmarks include:
- Spiritually Aligned
- Physically Fit
- Relationally Rich
- Emotionally Healthy
- Vocationally Aligned
- Financially Free
What Clients Are Saying
"I would definitely not be where I am today if it weren't for the planning and execution of my 5-year plans with Scott."
"Scott has a killer ability to be thorough, yet not invasive; be direct, yet not offensive; and timely in a classic 'timeless fashion' sense."
"Scott’s guidance has been transformational. Working with Scott helped me get clear on what I REALLY wanted for my life, my business and my legacy — which was different from what I THOUGHT I wanted."
5 Guiding Beliefs
The following are beliefs that guide how we approach every client as we co-create a life by design.
DESIGN OVER DEFAULT. We believe living by default is a tragedy and the remedy is to live by design. The enemy of living by design is a lack of agency. Agency lives in context. Step back far enough until you see options, which give you choice, which gives you agency. Agency makes living by design possible. We will work with you to maintain a lifestyle of agency and therefore a life by design.
REGRET IS THE ENEMY. We believe regret is a natural part of the human experience. Although it is not totally avoidable, we believe its impact can be managed and minimized through thoughtful decision-making, learning from experience, maintaining flexible expectations, and embracing a growth mindset. We exist to help our clients develop a solid process for minimizing regret.
EXECUTION OVER TALK. We believe it always comes down to the walk (execution, systems, routines). We believe persistence makes us luckier, but designed persistence makes us powerful. No amount of talk, regardless how eloquent, will ever replace action. We work relentlessly to protect our clients' action toward the ideal to which they are striving.
RELATIONSHIP OVER SELF-MADE. We believe we were created for connection/community. Without it we short circuit the very essence of what it means to be the fullest expression of our unique, God-given design. To go fast, go alone; to go far, go together.
THE SPIRITUAL IS CENTRAL. No other of the 6 hallmarks has more impact on any other hallmark of life than how spiritually anchored we are. None of our physical, relational, emotional, vocational or financial hallmarks - if improved 1000 fold - will come near to the impact that our spiritual hallmark has.