Finally, architecture evolves; so should your life’s plan. Bill Burnett and Dave Evans’s Designing Your Life (2016) recommends prototyping—testing small versions of a future before committing. Seasonal “maintenance checks” reveal which rooms are crowded and which lie unused, prompting subtle remodels rather than dramatic demolitions. When circumstances shift, add a skylight of learning, move a wall between work and care, or retire a corridor that no longer serves. In this ongoing renovation, hope supplies the vision, while possibility arrives as a welcome guest—finding, every time, that you have kept a key under the mat. [...]
