Why Redesign? Time and change can render once effective designs and plans obsolete. Redesigning amends, adjusts, improves, or transforms for renewed success.
Research and development teams use redesign as a success strategy to ensure they work out the kinks, get the job done right, and build value. When a prototype is designed, it is tested, retested, refined, and redesigned as many times as necessary it to achieve its best result.
Did you once have a grand plan that felt so right, but now you find it no longer serves you? If there are areas in your life which simply need to change to help you create better results, a redesign may be in order. This realization brings with it new learning. Revising the original blueprint, in your head or on paper, can create new possibilities for better results. The smallest modification can result in plan perfect!
6 Reasons Why a Redesign May Be Necessary. To . . .
- Evolve into something more than before: the original design needs to be edited, developed, corrected, or improved.
- Learn from mistakes: The original design was an utter and complete failure and you need to start over from scratch.
- Improve your purpose: You have achieved the goals you set out to achieve and now it’s time to move to the next level.
- Broaden your goals: Your environment has changed and no longer fits your needs or supports your objectives.
- Face facts: Your needs may have changed, and you have outgrown your situation or your situation has outgrown you.
- Become more flexible: Your management style has to adapt and integrate with the changes in your culture.
What Can be Redesigned in Your Life? Your . . .
- goals
- life game plan
- daily habits
- order of priorities
- career plan
- financial goals
- diet and nutrition
- relationships and social life
- living space
- personal growth and development
- fun, leisure, and hobbies
- schedule and use of time
Imagine that you want to redesign your backyard. Even if you don’t have the resources for redesigning it, picture yourself renting a bobcat to remove all the dysfunctional and unwanted plants and weeds. Clean the landscape; create a blank canvas upon which to start a brand-new design that grows literally from the ground up.
A crucial part of redesign is being willing to demolish what doesn’t work. Cleaning the slate to start anew is a reckoning of sorts. From there, allow yourself to imagine what the new design will look like. Realize that it may take only one small redesign to positively impact everything else. Nothing stands still.
Life by Design
After a 30-year career with the US Air Force (with her last fifty-three months being stationed three hundred miles away from her husband and two sons), my lifelong friend Chief Dina Moriarty returned “home” to begin living her happily ever after.
Having risen to the ranks of the top one percent of the Enlisted Force, her transition was hard. She had gone from leading thirteen full-time Chiefs, two-hundred Reserve Chiefs, and more than thirty-five-hundred Airmen to being home full-time. She felt displaced and disenfranchised. Both boys were moving on in their lives, and her husband had taken over running their home and living his own life. She didn’t fit in.
She soon realized that to be useful and stay sane, she had to redesign her life. Using her meticulous skills as a military member, wife, and mom, she became a Professional Life Organizer. She began helping individuals organize their lives, homes, tasks, and even their businesses. She found great joy in using her talents to help others become more empowered, organized, efficient, and effective. After eighteen months, she closed the business and began organizing people’s lives on a voluntary basis. Five years and five grandchildren later she continues to redesign her life by trying new things, learning new talents, and serving others. A redesign is always in order!This blog is an excerpt from her new book, Release the Power of Re3 . . . Review, Redo & Renew for Positive Change & Transformation. To learn more, please visit www.SusanCYoung.com or www.amazon.com/author/susancyoung.
