Change your room. Your room changes you. Connection follows.
But willpower is finite. And the room never turns off.
"The room sends a constant signal. Your spoken intentions come and go. When the two clash, the room always wins. Always."
Open Enough Design is a self-guided protocol for repositioning your space so connection happens by accident. No renovation. No shopping list. You use what you already own.
We know what it's like to think the problem is you. To blame yourself for disconnection. To live in a sealed room and not even know it. We built this for the people who would never let a consultant through the door—because we were one of them.
From the creator of Rejection Therapy, which helped millions overcome fear of rejection. The Three Levers, Seven Rules, and the concept of the Dial exist nowhere else. The protocol works without anyone entering your space.
Three steps. Minimal cost. Minutes to complete.
"Leave the Door Open" gives you the complete framework: the Three Levers, Seven Rules, and High-Leverage Moves.
The 60-Second Scan reveals whether your room is designed for isolation. Four questions from your usual seat.
Turn the chair. Open the door four inches. Place an empty seat. The room changes. You change with it.
Sit in your usual spot. Answer four questions.
Two or more "no" answers means the room is working against you.
You keep blaming yourself. You buy more self-help books that tell you to try harder while the room works against you 24/7.
Relationships fade and you assume it's your personality. The teenager retreats. The spouse becomes a roommate. Friends stop coming over because there's nowhere to sit.
The cost is the life that doesn't happen because connection never had a chance to find you.
Your teenager stops to hover at the kitchen counter. Twenty minutes of conversation happens without anyone planning it.
An old friend stays an hour instead of five minutes because there's finally somewhere to sit.
You stop reaching for your phone because the room finally gives you something worth looking at.
Someone who blamed themselves for feeling disconnected. Back to the door, facing a wall, wondering why no one stops by.
Someone who knows the room is the variable and holds the dial. Facing life, door open four inches, expecting connection to find them.
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