You've been part of goal-oriented conversations before. Now, join a unique community discussion centered around quality of life, health, prevention, and self-advocacy.

GIG Design is set apart by their approach - combining occupational therapy, coaching, and design. Design personalized environments and craft daily activities for vitality.

Choices and commitments, even when they stretch beyond the 'ideal,' can be a matter of focusing on your values rather than rigid schedules. Align tasks with your core values for a more meaningful approach to productivity.

Sustained effort is hard because it tends to become tedious and tiresome. But when you reflect on the contextual factors impacting your effort, it can help make things less mundane.   

Unique components that give life meaning and purpose are what you need in order for you (and possibly your family, friends) to routinely function every day.

Sensing is a resource to living smarter. A lifestyle that accommodates time to observe or “sense-in” will improve your goals and roles success rate.  

Getting distracted isn’t uncommon for many of us. Every day, we are surrounded by sounds, sights, and “feels” that emotionally reward us for giving it our attention. In real life, a “squirrel” is essentially a challenge. 

The dynamics and tensions of environment style involves structures and systems - those nudge interaction tactics, rule following, expectations, and codes of behavior. You can modify, change, or create an environment style for the purpose of triggering a habit. 

Three months into this newsletter adventure I started gathering data of the top 5 all of you contended with the most. Of the 50-some notes I’ve sent over the past year, which one is most impactful — for you?

With consideration of your health goals, the notion of friction is important to understand. There’s always resistance between your goals and achievements.

Of all the places we inhabit each day, home is the hub of resources that you (mostly) get to choose as forms of help, care, comfort. Advocate and invest in your actions and feelings.

You’re neurologically predisposed to do things that instantly gratify you. Humans naturally hunt and seek out pleasure. That is why environments are crucial resources.

Reducing distractions at home that suck up mental energy offer you traction towards optimal mental health. Resources that are meaningful to you are good for you. 

Cues stimulate you to do what you actually want to do. They’re pleasurable and can help you create a habit cadence, align with what you value, and demand little to no mental effort.

When life gets tough, seeking purpose can help you persevere. By reframing challenges as opportunities to make meaning, you can create a space that encourages learning and transformation.

Your support and presence have shaped GIG Design and this community into what it is today. And for that, I am deeply thankful.