Lifestyle Design System
Design The Life You Want To Lead
See what needs attention and turn your priorities into action. Lifestyle Designer brings your values, goals, habits and plans together, with an AI advisor that uses the information you choose to share and proposes practical next steps you can approve.
How It Works
Your Lifestyle Management System
Lifestyle Designer helps you know where to focus, get help acting on it and review what is changing. Aidan uses the relevant LD information you allow him to see and proposes actions you approve before they are saved.
Explore
What matters most to me?
Clarify your Values, understand your Traits and define your Principles. Reuse that work when you ask Aidan for advice or draft your Personal Profile.
Evaluate
Where should I focus?
See your life across six areas and identify what deserves attention. Compare planned project hours with your Pillars, then reassess to see how your readings change.
Execute
How do I act and review progress?
Ask Aidan to propose a Goal, Habit or Task using the information you share. Approve it to save it in LD, log your behaviours and review what is changing over time.
The Problem
Life Rarely Derails It Just Drifts
If any of these sound familiar, Lifestyle Designer was built for you.
Overloaded
Day-to-day challenges drain my hours and energy. Everything else has to wait.
Out Of Balance
Parts of my life are going well. The other parts pay the price.
At A Crossroads
Something in my life needs to change. I don't know what, or where to start.
No Clear Focus
Plenty of goals, but no real priority. Busy all day, with nothing clearly moving forward.
None of this gets better on its own.
You've tried the new routine, the productivity app, and the self-help books. Nothing stuck. A well-led life isn't a set of intentions. It's what you prioritise and apply consistently. Without that, the gap between the life you have and the one you'd choose widens every year. Closing it takes a system you use every day.
The Solution
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.
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.
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
For Executives And Professionals
Lifestyle Designer is for people who:
- Are successful by most measures and want the rest of their life to match.
- Want a sense of purpose that goes beyond their job title.
- Feel stretched across work, family and everything else, and want to decide where their time goes.
- Want a system, not another course or self-help book.
- Are willing to take an honest look at where they stand.
- Want to make clearer decisions and follow through in stages, with existing work reused, summaries calculated for them and an advisor that proposes actions they can approve and save.
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