#61: The Try Life On Framework

Back to Basics: The Try Life On Framework

 Over the past few months, I’ve gone deep on topics like identity, the subconscious mind, the power of language, internal vs. external life architecture and emotional regulation. Those tools matter. But this week back to the foundation.

 The Try Life On framework itself.

Podcast episode 150 is a return to principles. TLO didn’t start as a philosophy project. It started as a practical question: how do you intentionally design a life instead of inheriting one by default?

Most of us are dropped into a system early. School, career, bills, expectations, social conditioning. We learn how to perform, produce, compare, compete, and consume. Very few people ever stop to question the 'system'. They simply live inside it.

 For me, there was an inner knowing in my 20s that something about the default path was off. So instinctively, I created my own.

My path included engineering degrees, corporate consulting, policing, military service, real estate, and investing. Along the way, I also opened restaurants & nightclubs, traveled to over 100 countries, and even tried out for the NFL. From the outside, it may have looked like I was operating inside the system.

But I wasn’t. Not even close.

I was heavily focused on earning and designing financial, time and geographic freedom. And most important to me building meaningful relationships and have unique experiences at home and around the world. I quietly built my 'life book' by leveraging the system.

More than anything, I was chasing a feeling of life which I earned.

I captured that feeling early, and once I did, the status quo lost me forever. A few years ago, when I started telling this story publicly, people started asking me to coach them. That’s how the Try Life On framework was born.

The Try Life On Framework (In Simple Terms)

It starts with your Perfect Day. Not fantasy but structure. Where do you wake up each day? How do your mornings feel? Who are you with? What personal and business ventures happen daily? Essentially, what does YOUR personal freedom look and feel like, not the version society says you should have.

 From there you create your Lifestyle Blueprint by identifying your non-negotiables: time freedom, financial freedom, mobility, relationships, purpose, plus whatever else matters to you.

Only then do you build your Financial Blueprint. Money isn’t the goal. It’s the engine. You design the life first, then build systems to support it.

The final layer is Try Life On Principles and Identity Work. This is where most people fall short. You can design a Perfect Day, build a Lifestyle Blueprint and even create a Financial one. But none of it holds if your identity stays the same.

You have to become the person who naturally lives that life.

That’s what the TLO principles are for. They exist to help you lock in the identity that already lives inside your Perfect Day. This is embodiment, not planning. It’s learning how to think, move, make decisions, and show up as the version of yourself who already owns that life. Without this layer, people stay stuck in old patterns while trying to build something new.

Once that identity work begins, the principles below become practical tools you can apply immediately.

Try Life On Principles in Action

- Design your life first, then build money systems to support it

- Career does not have to equal identity

- Work can be purpose or purposeful (to fund your purpose)

- Time is not found, it is created

- Sustainability in life and financial models beats hustle

Creating a 14-Month Year Through Time Architecture

I’m calling this principle out on purpose because people say they don’t have time to design their lives. What they really mean is they haven’t designed it.

Time doesn’t just appear. It gets created through structure, intention, and deciding in advance what matters. 

In the podcast, I walk through what I call creating a 14-month year through time architecture. By reclaiming small, consistent blocks of focused time, early mornings, evenings, and weekends, you effectively give yourself two extra months of intentional living every year without changing your job or burning yourself out.

This isn’t hustle. It’s design. And there's a big difference.

Society benefits when you believe you don’t have time. The system works best when you work forty hours a week, feel just tired enough to recover on the weekend, then come back Monday to build someone else’s dream.

Don’t do that to yourself.

Through time architecture, you create space for your own life. That space is where clarity comes from. That’s where goals get worked on. That’s where health improves. That’s where new income streams get built. That’s where relationships deepen. That’s where you remember who you are.

Your not lacking time. You're lacking commitment to designing it.

A Real-World MBA in Lifestyle Design (This Week)

I’m sharing all of this because I want to help. The framework is practical, not motivational. It’s a real-world system for building a life that fits who you want to become and how you want to feel, daily. I’ve lived it across multiple careers, countries, personal relationships and business models. The common thread has always been intentionality.

Listen to TLO Podcast Episode 150 for deeper context.

More importantly, this week I’ll be inside the Try Life On WhatsApp community as a guest speaker helping people work the framework in real time.

There are about 100 of us from 45 countries already inside, all actively designing their lives. If you want a real-world MBA in life design over the next 5 days, this is it. Come be around people who are doing the work.

Email your name and number to: [email protected]. I’ll personally message before adding you.

My Personal Why

I’m doing this because I care about people breaking out of default living. In my 20s and 30s, I didn’t have a framework or a like-minded community. I was figuring things out in real time, building a different life on instinct, and a lot of it was lonely and hard.

Looking back, that was the toughest parts of the journey. YOU don't have to do it alone.

That’s why I created TLO and why this community exists. Not just to share ideas, but to connect real people, for real conversations, with real support while you design your life. And it's been a pleasure doing so.

Talk soon.

Maurice