Helping you stop settling and start designing a life on your own terms. The clarity you are looking for is closer than you think.
DECIDE IT. DESIGN IT. LIVE IT.
"Most people are not living the life they chose. They are living the life that happened to them."
For over seven years I stood in front of 600 students a week as a UK qualified secondary school teacher, watching young people navigate the earliest versions of questions that would follow them into adulthood. Questions about identity, worth, belonging and purpose.
After teaching I built a retail business from nothing that turned over six figures in its first year. I travelled extensively, including a sabbatical year in Canada that changed the direction of my life in ways I am still building from. I completed the Elite Mentorship Forum and went on to earn Elite Mentorship Trainer status.
I have spoken on personal growth and self-development across the UK, the United States, Canada and Zanzibar, and have delivered my own series of talks on multiple occasions.
Through the Self Mastery Network, a coaching and mentorship community I co-founded, I personally mentored over 40 individuals across three cohorts, working with people from the UK, Europe, the United States, Canada and the Middle East. The youngest was 18. The oldest was 85.
None of this started as a brand. It started in 2007 with a decision, a deliberate, uncomfortable choice to build our family life around what we actually valued rather than what made sense to everyone else. We chose to live in a part of the country where almost nobody who looked like us lived, where almost nobody shared our background, and where the path forward had to be created rather than followed. That chapter, including becoming the first person of my background to teach in that county's secondary school system, was covered by the Times Educational Supplement and emel magazine. It was not pioneering for the sake of it. It was simply what happens when you decide to live by design rather than by default, long before you have a name for it.
As featured in: Times Educational Supplement · emel magazine
Married for nearly 24 years and a father of three daughters. Currently based in North Africa, building Life by Design while living the principles I write about.
DECIDE IT. DESIGN IT. LIVE IT.
Every step is designed to meet you exactly where you are. You choose how far you go.
Download the free Clarity Check. Seven pages, three dimensions, one question that most people spend a lifetime avoiding. No cost, no catch, no performance required.
The Clarity Guide and the tools that follow show you why you are where you are. Not as a diagnosis, but as a map. Built on the neuroscience of how patterns form and how they change.
When you are ready to work directly, a one to one Clarity Session brings everything into focus. Ninety minutes, real questions, and a clear next step that is actually yours.
Each stage builds on the last. Select any stage to explore what it involves and what you leave with.
Every journey begins with a single conversation.
Book Your Free Next Chapter CallNot the version you say at family dinners. The real one. The one you carry quietly in the moments before sleep when the noise of the day has finally gone.
It is rare to meet someone who walks his talk in every area of life. I have witnessed him being both vulnerable and authentic, demonstrating a clear empathy and an infinite capacity of care and understanding for all others. A dedicated, balanced and true gentleman.
I have got to know Mubeen as a warm soul with solid principles who wants to get the most out of life by serving others. If you are considering working with Mubeen, do not hesitate. You are in great hands for a journey of personal transformation.
I had the privilege of being taught by Mubeen for five years during school. He had a profound and lasting impact on my life. I am now a teacher myself, and my own teaching philosophy is shaped by how he taught us.
A short video introduction is coming, where Mubeen speaks directly about the work, the journey, and what Life by Design actually means in practice.
From a free seven-page resource to a one to one session, everything is designed to meet you exactly where you are and move you forward from there.
Seven pages. Three dimensions of your life. The question most people never stop to answer properly. Always free.
The Clarity Check asked where you are. The Clarity Guide shows you why you are there and what keeps people in patterns they did not consciously choose. 28 pages built on neuroscience.
Where the Clarity Guide asks the questions, the Workbook builds your answers into a plan you can actually live by. Structured exercises, practical tools, real change.
Be first to know when it launches.Mubeen speaking directly to the themes that surface most in real coaching. For commuting, walking, or whenever you need a real voice rather than words on a page.
Be first to know when it launches.Thirty days. One deliberate action per day. Built on the neuroscience of habit formation, where small consistent structured action builds new neural pathways faster than dramatic change.
Be first to know when it launches.Ninety minutes. Just the two of us. Drawing on a decade of mentorship experience and work with 40+ individuals, Mubeen asks the questions that cut through to what is actually going on. You leave with clarity and a concrete next step.
The deeper work done in community. Coaching, accountability and transformation alongside others who are serious. Opening to a select number only. Connect on LinkedIn to express your interest.
From LinkedIn, Self Mastery Network, Superprof and beyond
The people I have worked with have ranged in age from eighteen to eighty-five and have come from the UK, Europe, the United States, Canada and the Middle East. What every single one of them had in common was this: they already knew something needed to change.
The relationship begins once, with a free 30-minute Next Chapter Call.
No pitch. No pressure. Just a real conversation to find out if this is the right fit.
A limited number of founding client Clarity Sessions are available at £97 while spaces remain. Once filled, the full rate of £175 applies. Foundations builds on the Clarity Session and includes it as your first step if you are starting there. Transformation is open to Foundations graduates only.
Weekly writing on mindset, identity and designing a life on your own terms. Every Sunday at 8am.
Three posts a week on personal development, the Life by Design framework and the journey of building something real.
Video content bringing the Life by Design principles to life. New videos coming weekly.
Community updates, resources and conversations about designing your life.
Visual storytelling and short-form content from North Africa and beyond.
All Life by Design digital products. Start free with the Clarity Check.
A free 30 minute conversation. No pitch. No agenda. Just a real, grounded conversation about where you are and what your next chapter could actually look like.
DECIDE IT. DESIGN IT. LIVE IT.
Book Your Free CallIt is for people who feel the gap between the life they are living and the life they sense is possible for them. That could be someone at a career crossroads, someone who has built everything on paper and still feels something is missing, or simply someone who has never properly stopped to ask what they actually want.
Start with the Clarity Check. It is free, it takes about twenty minutes to sit with properly, and it gives you a genuine picture of where you actually are across three areas of your life. Most people find it more revealing than they expected. From there, you will know whether you want to go further.
Your Next Chapter Call is a thirty minute conversation, not a sales call. Mubeen will ask you a few real questions about where you are and where you want to be. You will leave with at least one clear thought you did not arrive with. If working together feels right for both of you, you will discuss next steps. If it does not, that is completely fine.
No. The work here is designed to be accessible whether you have spent years in personal development or have never read a self-help book. What matters is that you are willing to look at yourself clearly. Experience is not a prerequisite for that.
Mubeen is currently based in North Africa and works with people across the UK and internationally. All sessions take place online via video call, which means location is never a barrier.
Most coaching starts with goals. Life by Design starts with clarity. Goals built on an unclear foundation tend not to hold, so the work here goes deeper first, asking what you actually want and why, before moving to what you are going to do about it. It tends to produce changes that last.
No, and Mubeen will not pretend otherwise. What he can promise is the conditions for real change, structured sessions, the right questions at the right time, and a process built on genuine experience of what actually shifts people from stuck to moving. What you do with that, in the sessions and after, is what determines the outcome. No coach can guarantee another person’s choices, and the people who get the most from this work are the ones who show up and do it themselves.
They are designed as one continuous journey rather than three separate products. The Clarity Session is the starting point for everyone. Foundations builds directly on it, and if you are beginning with Foundations, your Clarity Session is included as the first step rather than a separate purchase. Transformation goes deeper still, and is only available to those who have completed Foundations, because that level of change only holds for people who have already proven to themselves they can do the work.
If you change your mind, there is a 48-hour goodwill window from the moment you pay, provided your first session has not yet happened, for a full refund with no questions asked. This is a choice Mubeen makes rather than a legal requirement, and it applies the same way no matter where you are based. Once your first session has taken place, or the 48 hours has passed, payments are non-refundable, because real change depends on genuine commitment from both sides.
It did not start as a brand. It started in 2007 with a decision, a deliberate, uncomfortable choice to build our family life around what we actually valued rather than what made sense to everyone else. We chose to live in a part of the country where almost nobody who shared our background lived, where the path forward had to be created rather than followed. That chapter, including becoming the first person of our background to teach in that county's secondary school system, was covered by the Times Educational Supplement and emel magazine. Not because it was designed to be a story, but because it was simply what happens when you decide to live by design rather than by default, long before you have a name for it. Nearly two decades later, that same principle is what everything here is built on.