821 The Three Lives You Could Be Living (And How to Design Them)
The Terri Cole Show
Terri Cole
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Vic and I were watching a Richard Feynman lecture on YouTube recently, one of those deep dives into time, space, and quantum physics that makes your brain hurt in the best way. What struck me wasn't the physics. It was something underneath it, about how much we love certainty, how hard our minds work to manufacture it even where it doesn't exist, and how that love of certainty quietly limits what we allow ourselves to imagine as possible.
That's what today's episode is about.
Most of us spend a lot of energy trying to get one life right. The perfect career, the right relationship, the path that doesn't disappoint anyone. And underneath all that effort is anxiety, because if there's only one right choice, the margin for error feels very small.
The Odyssey Plan, which comes out of the Designing Your Life program at Stanford University, starts from an entirely different premise. There isn't just one life that's right for you. There are multiple versions that could make you happy, fulfilled, and aligned. The exercise doesn't ask you to blow up your life or make any decisions at all. It asks you to expand what you allow yourself to see as possible.
That's it. Just that.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello there and welcome to this episode of the Terry Cole show. In today's episode, |
| 0:06.2 | we're going to be talking about expanding what you think is possible for your future. |
| 0:13.8 | Many of us get into this rut of, you know, sort of same, same shit different day, you know, |
| 0:20.7 | or thinking about the future, like, okay, |
| 0:23.3 | and then we're going to do this, then we're going to go on this vacation, then we're going to |
| 0:25.7 | do this thing. |
| 0:26.3 | It's like doing the same stuff, but almost never allowing ourselves to think outside the lines |
| 0:32.0 | of what is possible. |
| 0:34.9 | So in this episode today, I'm going to be talking about a course that actually |
| 0:38.5 | originated in Stanford University course called Redesigning Your Life, I think is the name of |
| 0:44.9 | the course, and it's called the Odyssey Plan. And I'm going to walk you through, and we're basically |
| 0:50.0 | got to come up with three different trajectories for your life. |
| 0:56.1 | And you would be shocked at how just imagining how your life could be different |
| 1:01.4 | might bring new and exciting energy into your life right now. |
| 1:06.3 | So before we get into it, I want to say thank you so much for being here. |
| 1:08.9 | You know how much I appreciate you being here. |
| 1:31.4 | You could be doing lots of other things. And I hope you are. I hope you are bringing me with you to all those other things that you're doing. If you love the show, you want to support it. It helps me so much. If you would rate, review and subscribe to it on Apple Podcasts. And I want to say thank you to Happy at Kat for this five-star review, teaching us to be |
| 1:29.8 | strong. Terry has been a game changer for me. I love her knowledge and wisdom on being a |
| 1:34.1 | boundary boss. Why, thanks. Happy at Kat. I appreciate you taking the time to say that. |
| 1:40.5 | All right, people, let's move it on into today's episode about expanding your vision. |
| 1:56.2 | This is the Terry Cole show, and as you might have guessed, I'm your host, Terry Cole. |
| 2:01.3 | For over two decades, I've been a licensed psychotherapist, love and boundaries expert, |
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