Hosts Jessilyn and Brian Persson explore the third principle of their Discover, Define, Design Framework,  Design, in this episode. Design is the culmination of the first two steps, where you’ve discovered an issue and defined what’s wrong and now need to take action to design a solution. So Jessilyn and Brian talk all about creating solutions and adding structures for success into your situation.

The three main points that Jessilyn and Brian have grounded Define in give structure to their advice and revelations. First, they ask what immediate actions you are committing to based on the Design, second, they ask what structures around the Design will make it successful, and third, they urge exploration of the different tools available to help achieve success. Within these baseline takeaways, they explain how Design works, what structures to look for, how they used the framework in their own lives, and suggest apps to assist you in moving your solution forward. It’s a key episode on how to take immediate action to improve the conflict where you started.

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Resources discussed in this episode:

• SMART goals

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Transcript 

Jessilyn Persson: [00:00:09] Welcome to the Life by Design podcast with your host Brian and Jessilyn Persson, where we help professional couples resolve conflict and improve communication within their relationship. This episode, we're going to focus on Design. As the creators of the Discover, Define, Design Framework, we are taking you through the Design piece of the framework to help you with any of the conflicts you have in your relationship, to help resolve and improve communication. So Design, this means creating or imagining a new solution for your situation, and adding structures that will allow your situation to succeed.

Brian Persson: [00:00:44] That's right. So as per the last couple episodes we walked through Discover and Define. Those are how to explore the emotions of the situation and also uncover the facts of the situation. And we, in those episodes used a situation we had in the past, which caused a lot of tension and that was taking out the garbage. So we're going to carry forward with the Design principle of the Discover, Define, Design Framework around taking out the garbage. So one of the first questions that we ask is what immediate actions are you committing to based on your design.

Jessilyn Persson: [00:01:25] Yeah. And on that, so the solution for me was to have you, of course, take out the garbage before it overflowed, and preferably without me having to ask. So the immediate actions for that situation that I contributed to was agreeing to tell you if I saw the garbage overflowing in case you weren't around seeing it and asking you to put a item in your calendar to remind you that you need to take out the garbage.

Brian Persson: [00:01:58] Right, yeah. And we really lean on trying to get our Design to be immediate. So the actions that we are going to take towards anything we're going to create into our future, we really aim to have it as a quick solution so it can't, you know, wait a couple of years or wait a couple months, whatever it might look like to start acting on that design. So