The undefinable life design model.
A five-stage framework to design a life that reflects who you really are.
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It’s not career design.
It’s Life Design.
The divide between personal and professional is blurring. No longer are you able to leave your hobbies, hopes and happiness at home.
Instead, you are being expected to bring your full self to everything you do. Your professional reputation is being replaced by your personal brand, your network is being replaced by your community and your career goals are being replaced with your life goals.
Meaning that your aspiration should no longer be for work-life balance, but for work-life integration.
The undefinable life design® model is the framework I’ve built over years of writing, coaching, reflecting, and experimenting. It exists to help you stop asking “What should I do?” and start answering “Who am I becoming?”.
Many - Many Interests.
You are more than just your job title.
Most people shrink themselves down to the one-word answers of “Marketing,” “Consulting,” “Tech” when asked what they do. But those words flatten us. They hide the joy of morning rituals, the thrill of weekend passions, and the secret side projects that keep us alive.
This stage of the undefinable life design® model invites you to map your fascinations, spot the patterns beneath them, and understand the traits that make you, you.
You are everything that interests you.
And every interest is a clue.
Few - Semi-Professional.
Depth is where originality begins.
In a world of generalists and specialists, there’s a third way: becoming great at a few things that matter deeply to you. That’s where you unlock your edge at the intersection of your skills, experience, and perspective.
Being “Semi-Professional” means committing just enough to grow meaningfully without losing your joy or boxing in your identity.
You stop performing expertise.
And start creating from it.
You - Golden Thread.
Your internal compass uniquely defined by you.
Your Golden Thread is not a job title. It’s not a five-year plan. It’s a flexible, evolving purpose you grow into—by uncovering who you help, how you help them, and what you offer.
It’s not found. It’s formed.
At the intersections of what lights you up and what lights up others when they’re around you.
It becomes the compass that guides how you show up and where you say “hell yes.”
I - Signature Expression.
Create a contribution associated with you.
It’s the bridge between your inner clarity and your outer impact. It’s the intellectual property (IP) on which your future Value Streams will be built.
Your Signature Expression can be an idea, a framework, a creative work or a combination of mediums that doesn’t exist yet. What matters most is that it’s recognisably yours, deeply aligned to your Golden Thread, and able to stand on its own in the world.
Turn your perspective into Design Principles that leave such a mark that your work is shared beyond you.
Multiply - Value Streams.
Design how you give and receive value.
This final stage is where your ideas touch the world. It’s about building Value Streams that reflect how you want to blend purpose, profit and play on your own terms.
Some streams are monetised. Some are not.
All are intentional.
Your Value Streams include your paid work, your creative output, your family, your community, and your wellbeing. Each is a pillar of your personal acropolis. If one wobbles, the others hold. If they all align, you feel deeply grounded.
You have 168 hours a week.
Spend them well.
It’s a Lifelong Loop.
Not a Linear Ladder.
You’re always evolving.
New chapters will invite new interests. Life events will reshape your goals. Relationships, health, success, failure will all change you.
This model isn’t here to box you in. It’s here to help you grow with intention.
To hold up a mirror. To guide reflection. And to remind you that you don’t have to pick one path forever.
Revisit your undefinable life design® often.
Challenge your Many Interests. Question your Semi Professionalism. Evolve your Golden Thread. Refine your Signature Expression. And keep choosing your Value Streams.
Each time you revisit it, you’ll return with more insight and a deeper sense of who you’re becoming.
You’ve seen the framework.
Ready to begin?
If you want to bring the undefinable life design® model to your team, students, or community through a workshop, or you’re considering applying it to your own life through coaching, let’s chat ↓