Designing a Life with Care™
What if care didn’t pause your hopes and dreams for the future?
Care can change your life. But it doesn’t have to erase everything you hoped it would become.
Designing a Life with Care™ is a 40-page guided workbook that helps you imagine more possibilities, test what might work, and make intentional choices about how work, family, care—and your own future—can fit together.
Start with the life. Then design the care.
When care changes the plan, widen the possibilities.
Care often enters lives that are already full—with careers, children, relationships, responsibilities, plans, and dreams. Suddenly, the choices can feel narrow:
Move or stay.
Keep working or step back.
Provide the care yourself or hire help.
Put your plans on hold or leave someone you love without enough support.
But what if there are possibilities you haven't considered yet?
Designing a Life with Care™ brings human-centered design into family care to help you move beyond either/or thinking and explore what else might be possible.
Created with Kristiana Corona, former Head of Last Mile Delivery Design at Amazon and CEO of Worthy to Lead®, the workbook combines design thinking, real-world care scenarios, guided reflection, and experimentation to help you design forward.
The workbook itself explicitly encourages readers to look beyond the first apparent choices, generate alternatives, and explore before deciding.
Design around what matters most.
You'll work through a practical design process to:
Imagine the life you want to create
Generate and evaluate new possibilities
Identify what you most want to protect
Turn promising ideas into small experiments
See beyond the obvious choices
Learn, adapt, and decide what comes next
You don't need to know exactly what the future should look like. You need a way to explore it.
You don’t have to decide the whole future today.
One of the most powerful ideas in design is that you don't always have to commit before you know what works. You can experiment. Try additional help for a month. Test a new division of responsibilities. Spend time in a community before moving. Try multigenerational living before making it permanent.
You aren’t choosing the permanent answer. You’re choosing what you want to learn next.
The workbook takes readers all the way through defining an experiment, deciding what they want to learn, considering resources and friction, and checking back to determine what worked and what should change.
Create your Life by Design.
By the end of the workbook, you'll bring your thinking together into a personal vision:
The life I want to create is . . .
What I want to protect is . . .
The people who matter most are . . .
One opportunity still open to me is . . .
One small experiment I'll try is . . .
Not a perfect plan for the next 20 years.
A clearer vision of the life you want—and thoughtful next steps toward creating it.
Designing a Life with Care™
$39
40-page guided workbook
Includes guided reflections, design stories, possibility-generation exercises, a feasibility and impact framework, small-experiment planning, and your personal Life by Design.
Featuring expert perspective from Kristiana Corona, CEO of Worthy to Lead® and former Head of Last Mile Delivery Design at Amazon.
Don’t just plan for care.
Design the life you want care to support.
Part of Care Like a Leader™
Care Like a Leader™ helps families See the system, Lead with intention, and Design what comes next.
Designing a Life with Care™ helps you design what comes next—starting with the people involved, what matters to them, and the life they want care to support.
Run care as a system. Live like a human.
