When a designer makes a new thing, there are always trade offs. 

Creating a black and white T shirt is cheaper, but often less engaging.

Put more sugar in your cereal and it’ll taste better. It’s also cost you more calories.

Whether we think about it much or not, we design our lives. Of course, everyone has different parameters. Some people are married, some are single. Some don’t have much money, some have too much. Some people work a thousand hours a week while some are on the dole.

But within those parameters we all make design choices. In your free time do you exercise or click around Facebook for another hour? Or do you meditate and write poetry or sit around eating pie?

The choices we make as we design our time and live our lives will have profound results as the years go by. 

And since time is limited, what we choose to do with it is crucially important. Perhaps some things have to go. But when we design our lives and our time with intention, we’ll eventually get real results instead of defaulting into a semi-conscious trajectory that may not include our dreams, wishes and desires.