Coming in September: Life Plan: Living by Design, Not Default
Practical tools and powerful insights to help you live with
greater clarity, intention, and alignment.
Start Living by Design
Rich Harris’s forthcoming book, Life Plan: Living by Design, Not Default, is a practical and inspiring guide to more intentional living. Drawing on decades of personal experience, research in psychology and neuroscience, and a three-decade life-planning practice, Rich offers a clear framework for aligning your actions with your values, overcoming the patterns that keep you stuck, and creating a life that reflects who you truly are.
More than a book of ideas, Life Plan is a practical process to help you:
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Gain greater clarity and direction across the most important areas of your life
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Break free from limiting beliefs, distractions, and default patterns of living
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Align your daily choices with your deeper values and long-term intentions
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Create a personal roadmap for a more meaningful, fulfilling, and well-lived life
“Life Plan is a thoughtful invitation to know yourself more deeply and to live more deliberately as a result. Rich weaves together cognitive science, lived experience, and a set of exercises that move the reader from insight to action — the hardest and most important step in any growth process. As someone who spends her days helping leaders understand the difference between reacting and choosing, I found this book to be a clear, warm, and unusually useful companion for that journey.”
Rebecca Merrill
President
Merrill Leadership
“Most successful people apply rigor and discipline to their work, but far fewer bring that same intention to the rest of their lives. What sets Rich apart is that he has applied that same rigor to every corner of his life — health, family, relationships, and purpose — and in Life Plan he distills three decades of experience into a practical framework for living more intentionally. If you’ve ever closed the laptop on a strong quarter and quietly wondered whether the rest of your life is keeping pace, read this book.”
Doug Cook
Vice Chair
Cushman & Wakefield
What You’ll Discover
Inside Life Plan, you’ll find:
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Practical tools for living more intentionally — grounded in psychology, neuroscience, and real-life experience
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Strategies for setting meaningful goals and following through with greater consistency
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Insight into how your habits, environment, and internal narratives shape the life you create
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Stories and exercises designed to help you take thoughtful, confident action
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A clear guide to living with greater clarity, alignment, and intention — wherever you are starting from
"Life often casts us in the role of the carpenter, swinging the hammer, when what we may really need is to step back and play the architect, making sure the plans still fit the life we want to build."
— Rich Harris, from Life Plan
About the Author
Rich Harris is a writer, speaker, executive coach, and former entrepreneur who helps individuals and organizations live and lead more intentionally. Drawing on decades of experience in leadership, business, and personal development, he blends practical wisdom with insights from psychology and neuroscience to help people move beyond default patterns and create lives of greater clarity, alignment, and fulfillment. Life Plan is the culmination of his long-standing commitment to helping others step back, reflect deeply, and design a life that fits who they truly are.
