The Life Playbook
A self-guided course by Ben Summons
It's time to redesign what success looks like for you.
The Life Playbook is a self-guided course that helps you redesign what success means now, reconnect with what actually matters, and build a practical, personal playbook for your next chapter - without blowing up the life you've already built. Self-paced - start today, and work through it in your own time.
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Recognise the signs
Does this sound familiar?
You've built a life that looks like it's working. On paper, most of it is.
But maybe you've noticed a few things too:
You keep meeting your responsibilities, but something feels flatter than it should. You're achieving plenty, yet you sometimes wonder if you're maintaining a life rather than actually living it. You don't want to blow anything up - you're just not sure the version of success that got you here still fits the person you've become - or what you want going forward.
You just know that the status quo is something you're not prepared to settle for.
If any of that sounds familiar, you're not broken, and nothing has gone wrong. You've just outgrown a playbook that is anchored to an old picture of success.
The opportunity
Success has a used-by date.
Here's the thing about success: it was never meant to be permanent.
Your early picture of it was shaped by the people around you, the expectations placed on you, and the milestones you learned to chase - work hard, build a career, earn more, keep moving forward. None of that was wrong. It's just that the picture can quietly go out of date while you're busy living inside it.
Success has a used-by date. Redesigning it doesn't mean rejecting what you've built. It means updating the definition so it actually fits who you are now - and the life you want next.
About Ben
Introducing Ben Summons
I'm Ben Summons. For more than two decades I held senior leadership roles across Australia and Asia - including running chocolate for Mondelez across Southeast Asia and five years as CEO of Stone & Wood.
From the outside, that looked like success. From the inside, I hit the same wall a lot of the people I now work with hit: the playbook that got me there stopped fitting the person I'd become.
I've spent the last five-plus years coaching leaders, business owners and people figuring out what's next through exactly that redesign. The Life Playbook is the self-guided version of that process - built so you can work through it in your own time, without needing me in the room.
What it is
What The Life Playbook is
The Life Playbook is a guided, self-directed program. Through five connected steps, hands-on exercises and a growing personal document, you'll move from an honest read on where you are now, to a clear picture of what matters, to a practical system for actually moving towards it.
By the end, you won't just have completed a course. You'll have built your own Life Playbook - a practical, personal reference for what matters, where you're heading, and the moves that will bring it to life. Not a course to finish and file away. A document you keep coming back to.
How it works
Five steps to your own Life Playbook
Step 1
Current Story
Before you can design where you're going, you need an honest read on where you are. You'll reconnect with a genuine memory of feeling fully alive, map the Buckets that make up your life, and create a clear baseline for what's working, what isn't, and what might be missing.
Step 2
Meaning
You'll move from living by default, or by someone else's definition of success, to designing from the inside out. You'll get clear on your Gifts, Passions and Values, bring them together into a personal Purpose Statement, and create a real vision for what success looks like across the parts of your life that matter most.
Step 3
Mindset
Clarity alone doesn't create change. You'll identify the version of yourself best equipped to bring your vision to life, retire the old stories and patterns that no longer serve you, and shift from feeling like a passenger in your own life to taking the wheel.
Step 4
Momentum
This is where clarity turns into movement. You'll build a simple planning rhythm that connects your bigger vision to what matters this month, this week and today - and learn a practical way to keep moving forward without trying to change everything at once.
Step 5
Put into Play
You'll bring everything together into your own Life Playbook: a practical, personal document you'll actually use - to orient yourself, activate your priorities, and evolve it as life changes. Plus a set of bonus tools for the moments a course can't fully plan for.
What's inside
Everything inside The Life Playbook
One self-paced course. Five steps. Everything you need to build your own Life Playbook and keep using it.
Five steps, every exercise with video guidance from Ben
Each step is broken into hands-on exercises - and every single step and exercise comes with its own video walkthrough, so you always know how to get the most out of it, plus the downloadable material that goes with it.
A fully worked example with every worksheet
Every exercise comes with a completed example alongside the blank version, so you can see exactly what a genuine, fully answered response looks like before you write your own.
Your own Life Playbook Template
Not a workbook you finish and shelve - a living document you compile as you go and keep coming back to: your direction, your current priorities, your go-to plays, and a simple rhythm for reviewing and updating it as life changes.
A bonus toolkit of eight quick microshifts
Small, practical reframes you can reach for in the moment - whenever you need to calm the chaos, refocus, or get back into alignment quickly.
Lifetime access
Work through it once, or come back to it in a different season of life. It's yours to keep.
Self-paced · $291 one payment · 30-day guarantee
This is for you if:
You're in your 40s or 50s (or close to it), you've built something real - a career, a business, a family life, or all three - and you carry real responsibility for it. You're not looking to walk away from any of that. You just want a structured way to work out what matters now, and what should come next.
This probably isn't for you if:
You're in an acute crisis and need immediate support rather than a self-guided process - if that's you, please reach out to a professional first. And if you're looking for someone to hand you a finished answer, this won't do that either. The Life Playbook gives you a process and the space to think - the answers are yours to write.
"The Life Playbook is built on the same process Ben has used coaching leaders, founders and business owners for the past five-plus years - helping people clarify what matters, connect the different parts of their life rather than treating them separately, and translate reflection into real, meaningful action."
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$291 +TAX. One payment, lifetime access
Five steps, every exercise with video guidance from Ben. Every worksheet with a worked example. Your own Life Playbook Template. The bonus microshifts toolkit.
Enrol now30-day guarantee: work through it, and if it's genuinely not for you, let us know within 30 days for a full refund.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this the same as the book 'microshifts'?
How long does it take?
What if I fall behind or life gets busy?
What if it's not for me?
Do I need any particular background or experience?
Is this a substitute for therapy or coaching?
What if I want more personal guidance than a self-guided course gives me?
You don't need to redesign your whole life today.
You need one honest look at where you are, and a practical way to start moving from there.
Enrol in The Life Playbook - $291