Design Success In Three

Dear Designer,

Let's face it. You are successful. You are...in so many ways. It’s like the movement of the clouds in the sky. You watch and it doesn’t seem like they are moving at all.

But, once you close your eyes for a brief moment, then open them again, you would notice the clouds changed and moved.

It's the same way with you and that word "success." You've created success in the past which means you can in the future.

Right now is the time to realize, either, that you need to move and stretch again toward greater accomplishments. Or, it's time to follow through on the thoughts and feelings you've already been having.

The reality: another day, week, month has gone by. Nothing. No progress. No trying or doing in that aspect of your life that you're heart is aching to succeed in or make progress on.

So, here's what we've got today for this brief moment we have together, a three step process to making success really happen called The 3-Degree Method.

Because, if you succeed...if you make happen those things you've been dreaming of for years, then, can you imagine what life would be like if your "someday" was your "everyday?"

Let's jump in and see what this looks like.

Keep designing,
Josh

Today’s Design Theory

^{(Why theory? Ideas are theories until you test, prove, and adopt the results into the fibers of your identity.)}

Success isn't about hoping and wishing anymore – it's about designing it deliberately.

Your’e way.

…not what others are creating or telling you to fashion out of the sometimes overwhelming confusion of life's paths.

It's about designing life according to who you are and what you want and are willing to become because of what that will mean for you and for those closest to us.

I recently published a carousel post on LinkedIn with this statement included in it:

But, how do we latch on to the coat tails of success and opportunity as it whizzes by?

What if you used a system, a formula that has already worked for thousands and tens of thousands of individuals already?! Wouldn't that be something?

Wouldn't that be the only way you'd want to lock in your success, since you don't have any more time to waste anyway?!

Don't be a dreamer. Be a designer.

Architect a better future than you may already be creating. Use this simple 3 step formula, The 3-Degrees To Success Formula. It could blow way past your current endeavors and send you into an entirely new stratusphere of adventure and endless wonder.

1st Degree: Write Your Success Story

I'm incredibly excited to tell you about Graham Weaver and his real life example of how this worked so well for him. No, he's not a client of mine. Yes, he's proof that this works. Here's the scoop.

In 2008 the economy flattened. Graham had 7 clients who lost almost everything. Graham's executive coach told him to do the following..."Take a client and write out in five years where this client will be with the best possible service you can give them. Create the best possible scenarios. Don't think about, talk about, or write about the HOW right now. It's not important. And, have fun with it."

Graham Weaver did exactly what his executive coach told him to do. He wrote it down...and at the end of the five years, everything on that list, everything in that story that he wrote had come true and had even exceeded his wildest imagination.

So, Graham said…

…and, as you can imagine, the results held true in for other clients, for other parts of his business, and in other areas of his life.

Be that 1% who actually illustrates what you want. Be brave enough to call your shots, to stake your claim on every desire, wish, and hope that has a name, that you seek after to become a truth in your life.

When you take the time to write down your vision, three things happen: your mind gets laser-focused, your goals, your future life, becomes alive and tangible, and your path to where you want to go and who you want to be becomes crystal clear. But, if you skip this crucial step, if you don't do the work, and it's work, you'll keep spinning in circles, letting those dreams stay fuzzy and undefined.

Here's a question that might sting just a little: Are you ready to stop being a dreamer? Are you ready to be a designer...to design your life the way you want it?

Then, you're about to be the blessed beneficiary of one of life's most crucial steps toward lasting success, change, and transformation...mastery over your destiny.

2nd Degree: Feel Your Success Story

There are 3 preliminary levels of existence before something actually exists. What you will do with your prewritten success story now is to turn it into a place where you can visit and live in before it even becomes materialized in the world you live and breath in around you. The 3 levels include, thinking, visualizing, and feeling. You want this success story to become true as quickly as possible? Well, let's focus most on the principle of "feeling" that will get you there.

You've thought at length about this reality you'd like to experience and have designed it in written format. Wonderful. Awesome.

In fact, you may not know just yet how tremendous that step, that gesture truly is. I congratulate you whole heartedly.

But, to the true glory of achieving it, we'll push past merely visualizing your various outcomes and focus most on "feeling" your proposed reality, which, in fact, includes a healthy measure of visualization anyway.

In other words, lets borrow from a process by which you live within your success story long before it has begun to materialize.

Wayne Dyer, speaking about the concepts of manifesting once stated:

So, let's further design your success scenarios, your story, and put visuals and emotions at the core of it's completed state. Here are some ideas:

• Block time off in the morning in a quiet place when you can meditate for 5-30 minutes.

• Build your future world where your success story is operating and at the core of your every day life.

• Let your imagination have no boundaries as you create the scenes and environmental details.

Now, here's where the magic comes in:

• Feel what it would feel like to experience life at that level, in those circumstances.

• Carve out illustrations around answering questions such as, "What do I look like and act like? Who is with me? Where am I?"

• What are you feeling...what emotions? Name them then feel them. Live those emotions out as long as you can while meditating.

And remember, why in the world shouldn't or couldn't this reality be yours? The answer. There's absolutely no reason why this success story can't be a reality for you in some future, and not so distant, day ahead.

When you deeply feel your future success, three powerful things happen: your subconscious mind accepts it as reality, your actions naturally align with your vision, and opportunities suddenly appear that you wouldn't have noticed before. But if you skip this emotional rehearsal, you'll remain disconnected from your goals, treating them like distant fantasies rather than inevitable outcomes. So here's the real question:

Are you ready to stop treating success like a foreign concept and start feeling it in your bones and in the deepest depths of your soul?

3rd Degree: Systematize Your Success Story

Now, I hope you've learned this "one truth" that I'm going to share with you. Because, our digital world tends to glaze over this very important fact.

Unlike the sharp shooters in the 1960's westerns that could kill a man in one shot, it's going to take more work to realize your success story than one "cinematic" pistol punch.

The truth is, straightly stated, you're going to have to commit 100% to seeing this success story through. But, here's what's going to make it 10X easier. (Wait for it!)

You're going to need to build the framework that supports your vision. As James Clear powerfully states in his brilliant book, Atomic Habits:

In other words, success isn't about motivation, will power, or white-knuckling it — it's about mechanics.

When you build systems around your success story, three incredible things happen: your daily actions automatically align with your goals, your progress becomes measurable and consistent, and your success becomes a matter of 'when' not 'if.' 

Here are some ideas:

• Supporting your efforts with accountibility partners.

• Setting alarms on your pocket computer.

• Posting your success story and it's ancillary mini-milestones...well...all over the place.

• Creating an audio version of your success story and listening to it...daily, weekly.

• Basically, doing what every you can to make it easy for you to make progress in the direction that you've so carefully and affectionately outlined.

If you skip this critical step, of creating systems around your masterful attainment, you'll forever be stuck in the land of good intentions, where dreams go to...die. So here's the million-dollar question:

Are you ready to stop hoping for success and start engineering it?

Final Thoughts

The theme of my previous newsletter was ONELIFE…that, you and I only have this life to “do our thing,” to fulfill our purpose, which means to use everything within us to benefit those around us in our own unique and special way.

You know what’s really amazing…

That you have everything you need to do everything you want and be whomever you were born to be.

I truly believe The 3-Degrees To Success Formula works. (In fact, I used a similar method to create my current reality as a home owner of the dream house my wife and I always wanted.)

• Write Your Success Story - Put pen to paper and design your future with crystal clarity

• Feel Your Success Story - Live in the emotional reality of your success before it materializes

• Systematize Your Success Story - Create the framework that makes success inevitable

I wish you the most wonderful journey toward everything you desire.

The fact that you've read this far, that you're considering the incorporation of these three degrees into your life – it speaks volumes about who you are and who you're becoming. You're not just someone who dreams about success; you're someone who's ready to design it, feel it, and systematize it into reality.

Make it happen.

All day and every day.

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Pincel: AI Generated “Design Life” Logo

I searched long and hard for an AI tool that would take my logo and create a theme out of it. (Wasn’t easy.)

So, I’ll save you the time and tell you about it.

It’s one of the best AI tools I’ve found that keeps the integrity of your logo. Here’s what I did to generate multiple logo versions:

• I loaded up my logo mark

• Typed in a brief prompt: “a cloud in the blue sky realistic in the morning”

• Set “readability” to 2.11

• It generated this lovely design.

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Keep designing,

—Josh