Step-by-step advice to start living out your biggest dreams Design Your Own Life: Practical Advice and Powerful Insights to Shape Your Destiny imparts a straightforward 12-step approach to design your perfect life: one that is full of not only career success, but also authentic fulfillment and happiness. Relying on author Michael Pilarczyk’s remarkable life story as well as interviews from more than 3,400 people between the ages of 15 to 30, both those searching for meaning and those already on their way to fulfillment, this book moves past empty motivation and instead unlocks the door to real, transformative, and impactful action. Some of the ideas explored in this book include: Early life socio-emotional conditioning and its impact on your current behaviors and thought patternsIntelligence versus knowledge and the serious mistake of confusing one for the otherThought as a catalyst for creation and how to free ourselves from worst-case-scenario fantasiesMeditation as a gateway to the part of yourself often called your “higher consciousness”Design Your Own Life is a must-read for those seeking to rapidly conquer the learning curve of life and find themselves living out their ideal existence, no matter where they start from or how high they hope to climb. Read more

Product Specifications

Publisher	Wiley
Publication date	April 14, 2026
Edition	1st
Language	English
Print length	272 pages
ISBN-10	139432006X
ISBN-13	978-1394320066
Item Weight	1.03 pounds
Dimensions	5.6 x 1.1 x 8.6 inches
Best Sellers Rank	#5,758,774 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #24,989 in Personal Finance (Books) #39,897 in Success Self-Help #58,838 in Motivational Self-Help (Books)