About Richly Wills (Changemakers)

Richly Wills is a forward-thinking educational platform that is home to thousands of people looking to change, challenge convention, think differently, and add value to the world as changemakers by actively learning to adapt, lifehack, create and innovate each day, via thought-provoking, change-inspiring articles, useful shared resources, plus actionable challenges, techniques, training programs & changemaking tools.

Richly Wills essentially stands for our individual & collective ‘will’ to create a ‘richer’ life and world around us for today and the future, and is like a personal and human development hub rolled into one. 

About Richly's Changemaking Philosophy

Richly's Vision & Philosophy (Get Out The Box)

changemakers who make life-changing and world-changing actions through learning

develop a ‘richer’ comfort-challenging, forward-thinking, adaptable mindset, so they can navigate the modern and future challenges of our times, thrive in getting more out of life, and become original thinking ‘changemakers’ that create a difference and improve the world.

Many of us think that we are born how we are and we can’t adapt or be creative in different ways through life, but that’s because we are often conditioned to think over-logically in routines (as it’s easier to follow order and survive), or we just don’t know how to make a change or be more flexible in life.

This is where Richly comes in.

Richly Wills is more focused on our ability to move beyond a survival mindset and into a truly thriving mindset that is more adaptable, and helps people think for themselves better and think differently, so they can become changemakers who envision what positive changes are needed to make our world more sustainable and life more meaningful. 

This isn’t your typical personal development or life coaching blog that focus on feeling comfortable or at best being resilient and comfortable in our minds against change. It’s also not about just thinking our life goal is about finding only what we want and inflating our own ego. That isn’t freedom. Freedom comes from when we develop a higher state of consciousness that allows us to see and add value towards our humanity, rather than serve our own material goals for status or survival. 

Of course, we all need to survive, to eat, to live, but we can also add much more to our lives when we seek to grow beyond our basic needs and become changemakers who envision what humanity needs. 

Richly programs are designed to be life-changing and world-changing focused.

With our Richly Programs ‘Comforth’ and ‘Journeyspired’, we help people actively make changes to themselves first. We see what stops people and what can be done about it. We find ways to get more out of our limited time, energy and space and through techniques and challenges we learn how to actively make small changes to our current routines each day, that help us slowly become more adaptable to change. 

We then go further beyond our own life-changing programs towards the more world-changing programs we offer. Through ‘Creatical’ and ‘Healinno’ we see how we can think beyond the average, to unlock our creative potential to conceptualize and problem solve, and to envision solutions to problems that we just don’t see if we don’t learn to think differently. 

The programs aren’t video-focused and for good reason. We too often stay in passive mode (one of the 15 biggest change-sapping habits of our time). Richly works through thought-provoking and inspiring articles that cover a number of topics surrounding change, and lead towards the daily actionable techniques, challenges or programs you can take to put the change into action. 

Richly also aims to be a changemaking community, a hub you go to each day to get into an adpatable mindset to break the routines and daily grinds we fall into each day, just as people head to a meditation app to relax their minds feel more comfortable. The difference is, Richly focuses on change, and change is sometimes really hard for people to do, so we aim to make change something that is an adventure, a good challenge. 

As well as building our own programs (and eventual tools that are in the pipeline), we also link towards other resources we feel are relevant towards helping you make a bigger change in yourself first, and which help you think and act on a higher level of consciousness, or get you ‘comfortable with the uncomfortable’. 

This isn’t about meditation though. While that is helpful to some degree we don’t think it is the modern answer to everything as it has been commercialized as being. We think there’s a more effective and arguably advanced way towards making change happen. It comes down to the relationship between chaos and order, creativity and logic, the growth zone vs the comfort zone, and the process of ridding your ego. 

Freedom is found in chaos, not in comfort. 

Freedom is found when we become used to change, to chaos, and accept life as a changing environment rather than a constant. Freedom isn’t hiding behind money, or assets, or even behind comforting thoughts, it comes when we can adapt to challenging and changing conditions, and be okay with it. 

Richly goes beyond discovering freedom though. Meaning in your life clearly gives people motivating goals, but for them to truly be fulfilling and enriching they become more meaningful when they help create positive change in our world too. 

Not every goal you have has to be world-changing, of course not, but it’s more about our overall mindset. Are we living for ourselves or living to give more than that? 

this site helps people make their life easier and more rewarding through both inspiring and thought provoking material to challenge change. Think for yourself. Helping people make a change!
 
 

Our aim is to help as many people as possible get more out of their lives whilst also adding more value to the world.

Richly believes that a daily dose of seeking to ‘get out the box’ of routine and habitual thinking can help us develop a ‘richer’ mind that seeks to adapt, and thus create more possibilities each day for ourselves and our planet. 

We also believe freedom is found through seeking ways to add value, rather than chase conventional means of comfort or status. We become happier, healthier and more productive beings when we find a purpose beyond comfort or survival, and when we seek to thrive and add variety instead. 

When we challenge our comfort zone we grow more (when done so through balanced progression). The more adaptable we become the more we find our ability to create and innovate also increases, and we are able to envision flexible problem-solving strategies to common issues and fears that can often hold us back from our potential, and from creating solutions the world would benefit from. 

Why We Need To Get Out The Box Today? (Becoming A Changemaker)

The need to adapt in a changing and easily biased and ingrained world, the innovations we all need to think of. 

 

 

Our aim and vision is to help people activate their creative potential in life so we challenge goals in life, spark ideas & imagination, and become future-thinkers who provide solutions humanity needs, thus creating more possibilities each day for ourselves and for our planet.

The more resources that aid this the better, so as well as providing self-developed articles, challenge guides and useful related reviews, Richly Wills is also a hub for sharing & connecting recommended courses, ebook mini-guides, stories, apps, games, t-shirt merchandise, and links around the web, to keep inspiring people to actively wake up and create something richer from each day and to pass it forward. 

Being less average, living more interesting lives and realising we all have the potential within us to add something remarkable to this world. It goes through the hardships and lessons that founder Rich Williams went through himself, and still does, and if about how we can navigate life’s challenges together. 

 It’s a hub to challenge ourselves together to bring out our potential and realise that we can all add something remarkable to our world, where the big elites don’t have to control.

Richly Wills is about our will to improve and create a richer life & world, and through activating our right-sided brain more each day (via active micro-learning vs passive) we push/stretch beyond limited logical thinking and unlock our full potential.

We can all be more adaptable, creative and innovative in life, and that is the mission of this site, but in order to do so we have to challenge our set ways and our comfort zones first. When we do we take ourselves away from auto-pilot thinking and we begin to open and stretch our minds further – we learn to adapt, we build up our skills, we use a more creative mind to think of better/more solutions, and we become problem solvers in life.

This is the main principle behind Richly Wills – to encourage us to improve and stretch ourselves to be better, to give our best self and improve it further.

Conversely, when we adopt a comfort mindset that resists change we might think we are being good to ourselves through staying safe, but we are often just masking our potential behind the more immediate need for external validation or even status chasing. Disruption might sound like a bad word, but to grow we need it. Challenging this status quo might not sound easy, especially if we are so heavily ingrained to think routinely without question, but doing so allows us to channel new solutions that we otherwise wouldn’t see.

It’s not to say we don’t need comfort, logic or routine, but this site (and it’s tools) is about building up the skills that we often lack in favour of comfort, logic and routine – the ones that can develop our potential much further as they get us thinking differently, and get us actively pushing ourselves to a more advanced mind, and a richer life.

A richer life is not about material gain, it’s about a deeper sense of purpose and our strive for improvement, and while comfort and love can also bring us joy, meaning and co-creation, we tend to actively improve when we challenge ‘ourselves’ to stretch a bit further each day than what we already know, which means pushing past the comfort, or getting comfortable being uncomfortable.

Of course, many adults may have had their creativity stifled from a young age and became very logically agreeable and influenced over time, so an approach is needed to help these learners succeed.

How Richly Can Help You Get More From Life & Work

Richly essentially helps people develop their AQ (or Tier 2 yellow-plus value-based thinking in Spiral Dynamics). In other words, Richly helps people develop their adaptive and creative potential to become flexible problem-solvers. 

creatical training

So, how can this help you in life today (and in the future)?: 

  • You learn to adapt under pressure more easily. 
  • You develop skills that will help you in future jobs that will require adaptability much more so than today. 
  • challenge goals in life, spark ideas & imagination, and become future-thinkers who provide solutions humanity needs,

 

The training programs can be undertaken separately or taken together in an ‘ultimate changemaker’ process from ‘time to adapt’ through to ‘the future us’. Our 4 programs act as the base to build from with relevant new challenges & techniques added to them over time.

getting older doesn’t mean being boring or existing, and young people can also get more from life than just meaningless fun.
 
We help busy lives find more energy.
 
Have nice things but consider humanity in the process.
 
 
We don’t think it takes experts to tell you how to live well, we think we can all learn from each other, and add challenges and techniques. Alongside RIchly 4 main programs there’s other users who add articles and actionables in niche disciplines around being adaptable, unconventional changemakers.
 
a community of changemakers. 
How To Use The Site
The ‘Resources’ area is a collection of useful resources, reviews, tools and actionables to help you proactivate & ideate further each day.
 
For those of you new to the site then Richly aims to help people overcome static routines and habitual patterns of thinking, to first learn how to make a change in themselves, so they can then become changemakers who seek to make a bigger change to our world.
 
If you want comfort and routine then this isn’t the site for that.
 
Of course, we do need times of comfort and times of just relaxing, and there’s plenty of products, apps and so on that help us do so these days, but we are more interested in helping you break that comfort.
 
Not to be uncomfortable, but to get used to being comfortable with the uncomfortable, so you can challenge biases, routines, and fears easier, and so you can then feel more empowered to truly make a difference with the time you have in your life.
 
And it all starts with learning how you can adapt in your day, starting today!
How Did Richly Wills Come About?

What started as a personal blog of travel writer, futurist, and design thinker Rich Williams,

Articles about Richly’s changemaking philosophy and benefits. See all About Richly articles.

Seeing Things Differently To Create Better Change

The Envisionary helps thousands of individuals and teams actively adapt and 'get out the box' each day in order to create forward-thinking solutions the world needs. Better, flexible ways of living and working. Digital Nomads, creating better solutions and a better world, being unconventional and free in our approach. Seeing your own vision more clearly, escaping societal conditioning, overcoming modern anxiety and traps that block our ability to create better change. Problem solving real issues, getting away from the orange mindset and bringing in the forward-minded design thinking 3.0 yellow thinking approach to life, B-corps, being a futurist, Bring out the visionary in you! An magazine, coaching centre, and consultancy to help actually create forward-minded solutions to change.Starts with adapting and getting away from conventional and old systems, being more flexible with how we live and work, and then developing our ability to be creative problem solvers, and to finally apply that forward-thinking mind to develop better solutions to today's and tomorrow's problems so we help humans think, live, and work better. There's too much mindlessness and supressing of minds in the world, and we envision changing that, and bringing people towards wanting to create better change to human-improving solutions, so we get the best out of ourselves in life and be motivate to unlock our potential, as well as see better ways of doing things, not just products and services, but ways of living and thinking more fluidly. Seeing where things are likely to be going and what needs changing, and how brands can be improved to consider the needed changes in the world (more Envisionary Design). I am a futurist, brand experience designer, innovation consultant, design psychologist/thinker, change coach (help people consider different options), can set up envisionary design as an agency to inspire forward-thinking solutions that solve problems first for better humanity. Entrepreneurs and brands can get insight into potential change, and not just trends that people do but which create wicked problems. Big-ticket ideas that are regenerative, it's not about making everything a charity, or a subscription model that seeks to profit, but to consider solutions that are sustainable and regenerative but profitable, and where profits and solutions are put back into helping people develop their minds and have lives that get the best out of them, not socialism that just tries to aid people who then feel it's easier to not work, or capitalism that merits greed, we need adaptivism that is a recyclable econommy that seeks to develop solutions that help humans become more adaptable, creative, and solution-led. Promoting products and solutions that help make people smarter, healthier, better. Podcasts that get people involved, and coaching to make more forward-thinking people who can think outside the box. The world is getting pushed inside boxes, smaller, momre expensive boxes, and so how can we change this? People need to be educated away from the current models and to think the only way to profit is to extract value or monopolise, or to assume that virtue signalling or demographic bandwagoning is the right way either. All of that is societally-led external desperate thinking, and we need integral thinking and thinkers now, which is what the Envisionary does, it promotes new freer ways of thinking, living, working with forward-thinking ideas, and offering suggestions of forward-thinking ideas that people can get involved in. It envisions future ways of living, current blocks to those better ways, and opens up opportunities of potential better business ideas and concepts that could be developed from seeing the current psychosocial problems or potential future changes needed.

Why We All Need To Be Futurists

The individual collectivism change where we all become part of the solution working together for human improvement, not demographics.



Through psychologically insightful articles & guides, a coaching hub, useful linked resources & tools, as well as actionable challenges & techniques, Richly helps us rethink conventional survival thinking to go beyond our comfort zone, maximise purposeful living, unlock our creative problem-solving potential, and envision forward-thinking sustainable solutions that our world needs.

The Benefits Of Being Able To Think Outside The Box?  

OVERCOME LIMITATIONS
Challenge convention and fear barriers that keep your potential boxed up in a comfort zone.

OVERCOME MODERN CHALLENGES
Learn to deal with the modern challenges of our day, such as technology reliance, information overload, instant gratification etc. Join our '15 modern dilemmas of our time' challenge.

GET MORE OUT OF LIFE
Craft a more flexible life (from more time and energy, to remote working and living). Enrich your curiosity to always learn and improve, as you embrace new challenges easier.

ENVISION CHANGE EASIER
Develop your original thinking superpowers as you find you can adapt easier to fast-changing environments, and see/seize opportunities (that others can't see) for today and in the future.

GET MORE OUT OF WORK
Use your original thinking toolkit to problem-solve from a new direction to overcome challenges.

ADD MORE VALUE TOWARDS HUMANITY AS 'CHANGEMAKERS'
Give your life meaning as you can envision more needed solutions and be a part of shaping a better world for our future, rather than just accept what we have today.

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About Richly Wills

Richly Wills is a forward-thinking educational hub that helps thousands of people challenge themselves each day to think outside the box in order to become adaptable, creative, forward-thinking and problem-solving 'changemakers' who 'enrich' both their personal life and add valuable solutions to humanity.

Through Richly Wills, many individuals and teams have managed to ‘shake’ convention and biases whilst developing their AQ (adapt), ‘step’ outside their comfort zones to try new things and improve (lifehack), ‘see’ and think differently to challenge problems from a new direction (create), and help ‘shape’ a better world for today and the future (innovate).


So, Why Richly Wills? What's The Purpose Or Vision?

First of all, welcome to the site. I'm Richly, the founder, but Richly Wills isn't really about me. It holds an extended meaning beyond whatever I may think. It may have started as a personal rambling blog but it always had a vision beyond me. (that said, here's a bit about me ha).

Richly, The Person

I am not someone who fell into a conventional career path. I actively tried to ensure I didn't, long before it became popular to. It could've started as a slight rebel-without-a-cause, but it soon became a much deeper cause than I anticipated.

A lifetime of learning has accumulated around my two core interests, psychology and innovation, which paved the way toward a flexible, creative career as a freelance UI/UX designer, and then an innovation & brand consultant.

I've always seeked out new knowledge and wisdom rather than external achievement and I spent 10 years traveling and living abroad whilst broadening my mind trying to figure out just how and why we think and behave like we do, where humanity may well be leading to, and what we need to innovate or solve in order to bring that to fruition.

I'm a visualiser in life and like to think about what can be improved, whilst also being mindful to enjoy and create moments as life is short and we shouldn't spend it in fear or worry (I also seeked experiences that created an ethical difference - from tree planting to teaching, and other platforms that are on the way).

I've had my meditative journey but this isn't really the focus of Richly Wills, which has a more practical and active focus to change and growth (see below), and part of my personal active coaching encompasses a unique blend of human development values (including spiral dynamics) and creative problem-solving techniques to help people develop their potential and make an impact.

I write many of the articles on this website today (although have a growing number of collaborators too now), and have been known to be 'refreshingly provocative' in a sensitive world, not for clickbait but because growth really only comes when we break through biases and paradigms, and my main aim is to help people develop their minds as much as possible in their life so they can make a bigger impact as 'changemakers', which moves us onto Richly Wills, the site.

Richly Wills, The Site

Richly Wills is about actively unlocking our potential and 'free will' to improve, 'enrich', and make an impact with our life (and work) on humanity, through promoting the skills and tools to do so.

Richly Wills helps people go through the stages of developing their visionary potential to think outside the box, from realizing when we are stuck within it, to manifesting the problem solving skills that not only help us step outside it, but to make an impact from beyond it.

You could say that it's also about transforming our limited box of thinking into a vast toolkit (box) that we can use each day to envision solutions from.

Richly Wills is not just about getting us out of routine thinking though but ensuring we do something meaningful or productive with our newfound free will.

When we are caught within a box we can become confined in our thinking and chase things in life (like more money) thinking it will fulfill us, but when we develop a more enriched mind we can see a 'richer' purpose that motivates us beyond the material.

In other words, when we can think outside the box we can open up our potential to see things differently and overcome barriers that might have stalled our potential, and thus our life becomes more 'enriched' with all the new possiblities that we can now unlock, possibilities beyond our own individual needs.

Richly Wills helps us look ahead more, to envision the world that might be and solve problems that may arise. It becomes less about our individual will and more about our collective 'wills' in how we seek to add to humanity.

Finally, what is meant by impact?

Making an impact doesn't have to mean becoming the absolute expert in our field. We've been long conditioned to think that specialism is what constitutes success, and we aspire to follow people who do remarkable things, but impact can also be about the smaller changes we make in life, the building blocks, the little impacts each day (including techniques and challenges) that help us sew the seeds of change.

Think of it as building up skills (card blocks) that can be used to build many different directions out of the box.

If you consider Impact Theory (this one's really worth a watch) the theory behind successful people showing how to make a bigger impact with their lives, then Richly Wills is the active side that helps each of us personally make it realisitically and meaningfully happen each day.


Why We Need 'Adaptable Thinkers', 'Creative Problem Solvers', And 'Changemakers' More Than Ever Today?

Well, for three main reasons.

Firstly, so we get more out of our life each day.

People want to make their life count but often become stuck in set ways and patterns. We are so often told to find routines and develop repetitive habits. This can be useful for some parts of life (e.g. it makes sure you get out of bed and brush your teeth each day automatically which can help us preserve energy and keep healthy), but it can also lead towards autopilot thinking which slowly conditions the mind to just ‘do’ without conscious thought of ‘why’.

When we are stuck in this mould for long enough we see the consequences. People become overly safe in life, even miserable that their day has nothing to inspire them. We end up filling our lives with coping strategies instead; we consume more, passively watch more, compare status more, even meditate more (yes this modern obsession isn’t always so good for you), thinking this will bring us happiness and fill the void, but it often doesn't.

Instead we have to seek to think outside the box, ask many 'why' questions of ourselves and the world around us, change up our robotic repetition, and seek to adapt to challenges and situations (building our AQ and anti-fragility) rather than stick to what we know all the time.


The second reason is about our fast-changing environment.

The world is everchanging. It might seem as though our lives are often repetitive but the environment around us is changing faster than we can keep up. It might take one person a long time to make a significant change, but billions of people each doing their bit each day makes change happen around us very fast, and each of us individually may find it hard to keep up.

Richly Wills helps people adapt, lifehack, create and innovate each day so we can ready our minds for the changes happening around us now and in the future, and be a part of that change.

We might not think this concerns us, but when you consider how AI is progressing and many jobs around today will be replaced by others tomorrow, then it pays to be adaptable and creative problem solvers. Adaptable thinkers will be more likely to thrive through multi-disciplinary careers, remote working, and more sought after generalist problem solving skillsets rather than today's specialists.


The third reason goes beyond our individual needs, but to think of the need of humanity as a whole.

As changemakers and creative problem solvers we can come together to think bigger and tackle humanities biggest modern dilemmas and challenges, whether it be climate change, social media's influence (the attention/validation effect), the overload of information/choice, or our growing technology reliance etc.

It doesn't have to just be wicked problems either, as thinking outside the box might see us develop ideas and improved iterations to many things around us (that we wouldn't see if we just took it for granted).

Whilst we may think of changemaking as modern activism, joining protests, and having our say, Richly Wills isn't a movement. The aim isn't to have a load of people meet up and demand change. It's about 'making' a change, both consciously in ourselves and in coming up with solutions together as we adapt to the needs of humanity, not just now, but for the future too.


The Benefits Of Richly: Developing Adaptable And Creative Thinking

When considering the benefit of using Richly, we're really talking about the benefits of being more adaptable and creative in life for both now and the future. There's plenty of benefits of using Richly to both understand and develop your adaptability and creativity:

Overcome convention and fear barriers that keep your potential boxed up

Adapt easier to fast-changing environments (so don't get left behind)Being adaptable is also important (and comes hand-in-hand with creativity) as it allows people to embrace different challenges of problem solving easier, as well as lends itself to being relevant for the future ways or interacting and working.

Have more fun in life as you embrace new challenges easier

Craft a more flexible life (more time and energy, remote working and living). You will be be less likely to feel the need to obtain more, and more likely to be content in life with that which is valuable rather than meaningless.

Creatively problem solve better and see/seize opportunities (that others can't see)

See ahead easier to innovate and shape a better world for our future (add valuable solutions to humanities greatest modern challenges)

Enrich your curiosity to always learn, try and improve (to get more from life)

Have a rich creative thinking toolkit you can use in life and work

Relieve stress and feed your creative expression. Bring joy to your day as you develop a greater sense of freedom and confidence in being able to think without restrictions (or better when under contraints)

Understand the psychology behind your mind so you can be more mindful of what it's doing

Be visionary leaders who can not just adapt to challenges but seek better solutions easier, in work but also in your daily life too!


When To Use Richly Wills? Who Is Richly For?

Richly is a hub for a daily purpose. It's like when you go to Headspace or Calm to relax your mind, you come to Richly when you want to actively challenge your mind away from routines in order to make more of your day or to develop your adaptable and creative thinking potential.

Richly is where we see the possibilities of change, where we can resourcefully find ways to maximize our time, energy and space (flexibility) so we can put it to best use, where we learn to think outside the box as creative problem solvers, and where we highlight and inspire changemakers trying to make a positive impact on humanity.

In that sense, anyone can find value somewhere in using Richly, but it's particularly useful for people who are either boxed in to static, routine thinking and are seeking to change that, or people wanting to make a difference to humanity.

It can be used by individuals or businesses alike, where articles and programs promote problem-solving capabilities in looking at things with a different frame of mind.


About Richly Programs & Challenges

Richly Wills is a hub of different resources surrounding becomming more adaptable and creative. There's articles around related topics, sometimes innspiring, sometimes provoking change, sometimes both. There's also techniques and challenges added to either articles or bigger separate challenges (within the Actionables area).

Within Actionables you'll also find Richly's training program (with 4 segments around a progressive process from learning how to adapt (Time To Adapt), getting more from life (More To Life), building creativity (The Creative Eye), and learning how to innovate (The Future Us). If you follow the program/s through you'll find, as well as exclusive articles and links, you have actionable steps to follow in each and can use the program/s as useful reference points to go back to when you are feeling uninspired and back in set routines and habits (don't worry, it happens to us all).

Richly Wills isn't just a training hub for helping people be more adaptable and creative, but it's aim is to lead people to become 'changemakers' who use their adaptable, creative and innovative mindset to seek ways to add to humanity. Richly aims to bring changemakers together and has a resource list of other changemakers who are making a difference in humanity (feel free to add more if you know of others who should fit the list).

In time Richly aims to be a hub for many inspiring changemakers to also add their own challenges and courses, plus sometimes showcases useful ebooks and external tools being worked on within Richly Ventures.

Finally, Richly UXD is a sub-site of Richly Wills, which helps individuals and teams with design thinking and innovation related projects, where ethical future-minded solutions of products and services are sought.


'About Richly' Articles:

Articles about Richly's 'Changemaking' philosophy and benefits.