OK. What’s the best New Year resolution I could possibly recommend? Consider designing the life you love. Sound appealing?!

Well, you have to meet Ayse Birsel. But tomorrow, you can hear her at 10am ET on NY Brand Lab Radio! I’m delighted to have Ayse joining me. She’s a NYC-based designer, innovator and philosopher, and we’re going to talk up a storm about life, purpose, meaning – and how to re-imagine your world, shift your thinking and design the life you love.

First, I invite you to read her back story, here:

One day, Ayse Birsel, a famous New York-based designer who divides her time between Manhattan and Dakar, decided she had to work out how to better juggle her life, family, business, her kids (and a commuter marriage, no less!)

What’s more, as cofounder of Birsel + Seck, a humanistic design studio known for its work for Johnson & Johnson, Hasbro, Herman Miller, Hewlett Packard, OfficeMax and Target, she realized that if she could use the same innovative tool she used in tackling design problems, she could re-organize her life.

So last year, she launched her Design the Life You Love Workshop, based on her process, Deconstruction:Reconstruction.

The best news? Her next workshop in NYC is Saturday, January 28, and it’s sponsored by the Academi of Life http://theacademioflife.com, a special educational organization devoted to exploring the art of living.

FYI: Ayse’s work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and has received numerous awards – IDEA Gold and ID Magazine Excellence Awards. She is the recipient of the 2001 Young Designer Award from the Brooklyn Museum of Art and the 2008 Rhode Island School of Design’s Athena Award in Furniture Design. She has spoken on design at numerous conferences, including the Aspen Design Conference, Design Indaba, AIGA, and IDSA Conferences. Ayse is a Fulbright Scholar.

Go check out her site here and you’ll know exactly where you’ll be manana at 10amET. Listening to Ayse! http://birselplusseck.com

In full and glorious disclosure: I signed up for Ayse’s last workshop here in NYC at The School of Visual Art and loved every minute. She’s an inspiring and remarkable thinker.

Take a look at this terrific piece about Ayse’s workshop in the Huffington Post by Fast Company editor Linda Tischlerg. http://huff.to/fIuCpG

If you can’t make it to her next workshop in NYC, join us tomorrow at 10am ET on NY Brand Lab Radio – http://bit.ly/u6UajV

look forward to seeing you!