My Life By Design

I’ve been thinking a lot about the idea of designing your life — not drifting into it.

On The Ultimate Human podcast, Jesse Itzler and Devon Levesque talk about building a life on purpose. Not by default. Not by reacting. But by choosing.

And that landed hard for me.

Because for years, like many entrepreneurs and moms, I’ve said yes to everything that looked like opportunity. More hours. More availability. More people. More growth.

But lately I’ve been asking a better question:

What if success isn’t doing more…
What if it’s doing more of what you love?

For me, it looks like this:

• Doing more of what I love.

• With who I love.

• Serving the way I love.

• Helping as many people as possible.

• And keeping it SIMPLE.

Simple, condensed office hours.
Intentional time at home.
Space to be fully present with my kids.
Space to be fully present with my practice.

Because here’s the truth: I may not be able to see as many people this way.

And that’s okay.

For a long time, I believed growth meant increasing volume. More appointments. More expansion. More output.

But I don’t believe that anymore.

I believe in depth over volume.
Impact over noise.
Energy over exhaustion.

As a chiropractor, I get to witness the body heal every single day. I see intelligence at work. The nervous system doesn’t rush. It doesn’t force. It adapts, integrates, recalibrates.

Why should our lives be any different?

A designed life doesn’t mean shrinking your vision. It means refining it.

It means asking:

• What actually matters?

• What moves the needle?

• What fills me up instead of drains me?

• What kind of mom do I want to be?

• What kind of entrepreneur do I want to be?

I want to build something sustainable.

I want to serve deeply, not frantically.

I want my kids to remember a present mom — not a distracted one building “success.”

I want my patients to feel the difference when I walk into a room grounded and clear, not scattered and stretched thin.

So maybe I’ll see fewer people in a day.

But the ones I do see will get the best of me.

Maybe my hours will be tighter.

But my life will be wider.

More mornings at home.
More dinners without rushing.
More energy to create, write, think, and lead.
More margin.

Because a life by design isn’t about maximizing everything.

It’s about aligning everything.

And if that means saying no to some growth in order to say yes to the right growth — I’m okay with that.

This season is about building intentionally.

More of what I love.
With who I love.
Serving the way I love.
Helping as many people as possible.

And keeping it beautifully, unapologetically simple.