Lifestyle Design System
Design The Life You Want To Lead
A lifestyle design system with built-in AI advisor. Clarify your values, traits and principles. Execute your goals, habits and tasks.
How It Works
Your Lifestyle Management System
Lifestyle Designer helps you focus on what matters, get help acting on it and track your development and progress. Built-in AI advisor, Aidan, uses the information you choose to share to suggest your next steps and actions.
Explore
What matters most to me?
Clarify your Values, understand your Traits and define your Principles. Use that self-awareness and knowledge to generate your Personal Profile and share it with Aidan when you need personalised advice.
Evaluate
Where should I focus?
Assess and analyse your life balance across six Pillars. Evaluate where you stand in relation to four key lifestyle Drivers. Develop and track the Strengths that will enable you to stay ahead in life.
Execute
How do I act and review progress?
Identify the Goals, Habits and Tasks that will create the lifestyle you're designing and building. Track your behaviours and progress, so you can see what's changing over time.
Aidan - Your AI Advisor
Advice Based On Your Own Profile
Aidan works from the information and plans you choose to share. He can help you better understand your Values, Traits and Principles, propose Goals, Habits or Tasks based on your profile, and offer advice and guidance to help you decide what to do next.
- Always available AI-powered advisor
- Knows who you are and what you want
- Guides and advises you on next steps
- Nothing shared or saved without your approval
- Provides personalised support and guidance
The Problem
Life Rarely Derails It Just Drifts
Overloaded
Day-to-day demands drain my hours. Everything else waits.
Out Of Balance
Parts of my life go well. The rest pays the price.
At A Crossroads
Something needs to change. I don't know what, or where to start.
No Clear Focus
Plenty of goals, no real priority, nothing clearly moving.
None of this gets better on its own.
Routines, apps and books rarely stick. A well-led life is what you prioritise and apply consistently, and that takes a system you use every day.
What Actually Changes
From Reactive To Proactive Living
Clearer decisions, less administration and a record of what changes, week by week.
Priorities
Your time goes to whatever is loudest.
Articulate your primary and secondary Values with practical indicators, then test your commitments against them to make clearer decisions.
Balance
One part of life thrives while others slip unnoticed.
Compare planned project hours in your six Pillars view with your own assessment readings, so you can see where commitments leave too little room for what needs attention.
Habits
Good intentions that quickly fade.
Use your ratings and logs to calculate the Habit Spectrum: see which recorded behaviours help, which create the biggest drag and which are slipping over several weeks.
Purpose & Execution
A sense of identity tied to your job title.
Discuss a priority with Aidan, review a proposed Goal, Habit or Task and approve it to save directly into your plan without manual re-entry.
The System
Lifestyle Design Systemâ„¢
Three Modes and nine Components, covering every part of your life.
Select any Component to see what it does.
Values
What you hold most important.
The priorities that decide what you give your time to, what you say no to and what a good life means to you.
More About Values
Built By Dan Ford Executive Coach
Informed by a decade coaching senior executives and professionals, established research in psychology and behavioural science, an MBA from London Business School and accredited professional coach training. That experience shapes the method and the tools that help you apply it.
Built On What Works
Informed By Philosophy, Psychology & Research
Lifestyle Designer draws on established disciplines and research in psychology, behavioural science and executive coaching. They inform structured reflection, behavioural records and advice you choose how to act on.
Stoic Philosophy
Agency, intention and acting from principle - not impulse.
Existential Philosophy
Meaning through chosen direction and personal responsibility.
Buddhist Psychology
Presence, awareness and clarity over reactivity.
The Five-Factor Model
Established personality research informing how the Traits Component describes your tendencies.
Self-Determination Theory
Intrinsic motivation as the foundation of sustained performance.
Human & Social Capital Theory
Relevance, reputation and relationships as structural advantages - not soft skills.
Who It's For
Built For Executives & Professionals
Lifestyle Designer is for people who are:
- Successful in their careers and want the rest of their life to match.
- Seeking a sense of purpose that goes beyond their job title.
- Feeling stretched and want to decide where their time goes.
- Needing a system and set of tools, not another course or self-help book.
- Willing to take an honest look at where they stand.
- Wanting to make clearer decisions and act on them.
FAQ
Common Questions
What Is Lifestyle Designer?
What Is The Lifestyle Design Model?
What Is The Personal Profile?
How Much Does Lifestyle Designer Cost?
Do I Need To Take The Assessment First?
How Is Aidan Different From Using ChatGPT Or Claude Directly?
How Does Lifestyle Designer Fit Alongside My Work Calendar And Task Manager?
How Is Lifestyle Designer Different From Career Designer?
Pricing
One Membership - Everything Included
Connected planning, advice grounded in the context you share, approved actions saved directly and progress and review histories. Save £50 a year with annual membership compared with twelve monthly payments of £25. Full refund within 30 days of your first payment; renewals do not restart the 30 days. Cancel online at any time.
£25/month£250/year