You know this chapter is ending. You haven’t chosen the next one.

The résumé gets opened and closed. The recruiter messages sit marked unread, because answering them means knowing what you’d say yes to, and you don’t. Sunday night arrives with the same low hum it brought last month. In the car, alone, you’ve asked the question out loud once or twice: what do I actually want to do now? And then the garage door opens and the question goes back in its box.

It isn’t that you lack options. People like you are offered options constantly. It’s that no one ever taught you how to decide a life. You were taught to plan a career; plans assume the road ahead is known. Yours, right now, isn’t.

You’ve been treating the next chapter as something that will happen to you once enough thinking accumulates. It won’t. Direction doesn’t arrive by accumulation; it gets designed, the way designers work: gather real data about what actually gives you energy, sketch more than 1 future, test the promising ones small and cheap before you commit big.

That approach has a name and a lineage. This circle is built on Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans, the methodology taught in the Stanford course of the same name. I’ve used its mechanics in my own life and put them to work with others; they hold.

The honest math, before you read on: the usual alternative is another year in a chapter that has already ended. You know what that year costs you. This isn’t a scare tactic; it’s the math most people never do.

A chosen direction, not a drifted one. A working answer to what good means for you, in your words, on paper. 3 sketched futures instead of 1 imagined cliff. Small, low-risk ways to test the next chapter before you leap into it. And the thing under all of it: the conviction to act, because you did the deciding yourself and can say why.

6 weekly sessions of 2 hours, live on Zoom and Miro, in a circle of at most 10 people. Small on purpose: everyone works on their own life, out loud, every week. I’m not at the front of the room presenting; I’m at the table with you, asking questions and working the tools alongside you.

You’ll need your own copy of Designing Your Life (any edition, any bookstore). That and 2 hours a week of honesty are the materials.

I had my whole life planned out when I was 15. A 35 year route to a musician’s life. The auditions said no. A walk across campus into a design classroom said something else, and 15 years at Apple, Wealthfront, Meta, and OKX followed, none of which appeared anywhere in the plan. I don’t distrust plans because they failed me; I distrust them because something better was findable the moment I stopped planning and started wayfinding. That’s the working method of this circle.

$1,250 per person, 10 people maximum. Payment reserves the seat; card or bank transfer. A separate rate exists for church and nonprofit staff; ask.

The next circle begins Thursday, August 20, 2026. 6 weekly sessions, 6:30–8:30pm Pacific.

This is for the person who already knows the chapter is ending; the circle doesn’t talk anyone into leaving anything. The readiness signal is simple: you’ve noticed that another 6 months of the same thinking will produce the same not-deciding.

Write to me at eugene@alngsd.com and tell me, in a few lines, what chapter is ending. I read every note personally; there is no automated sequence behind that address. If the circle isn’t the right room for what you’re carrying, I’ll say so and point you somewhere honest.

10 seats. When they’re taken, the circle is full.