Welcome to Monday Briefing, a weekly digest from ACPE Executive Director Trace Haythorn! 

Each week, you will receive related articles, updates on ACPE transitions, and helpful links to keep you connected, better informed, and well-resourced for the week ahead.

A Resource for Exploring Vocation with Students:

A good friend in California noticed that many graduates of Stanford were very focused on their careers but were not asking questions about the quality or character of their lives. Working with another friend, both of whom are trained in'design thinking," they've created a new resource. 

Designing Your Life - It's Prototyping, Not Passion

What's your passion?" This is one of the central questions posed in today's culture, whether we are declaring a major, applying for jobs, contemplating a new role or career path, or embracing retirement. We seem to operate under the belief that if we just find out what we are passionate about, everything else will fall into place. It's not true. We all have multiple good answers to the question "What should I do with my life?" We have more than one lifetime's worth of life in us, so there is no single "right" or "best" life. Furthermore, in today's world, one version of your life isn't enough. Students today should expect to have at least two and more likely three to five different "careers" over their sixty-plus year working life. So we're not very passionate about the passion thing. We are passionate about helping people build their way forward though more creative ideas and practical prototyping of real, possible lives in the real world. Designing Your Life is just that - a set of accessible ideas and doable tools rooted in design thinking, the innovation secret sauce of Silicon Valley that can enable anyone to build their way forward.  After a decade of development and successful implementation with thousands of students and clients, the insights from the Stanford Life Design Lab are finally available for everyone. The book is available here:  Designing Your Life.