"Life success won’t just happen by chance. 

It’s designed, with intention and on purpose."

Sila

Why DTBY

I created Design The Best You to help property investors unlock a deeper level of success, one that feels fulfilling and real on the inside, not just impressive on the numbers.

Many people come into property seeking freedom, security, or a better future.

What they don’t expect is how deeply it challenges their mindset, emotions and identity.

I know that place well.

My story - briefly

My early years were shaped by adversity, which taught me resilience and perspective.

Aged 20 I moved to the UK seeking opportunity. I built a secure career in UK government, spending nearly two decades in public service - and saving as much as I could to create a better future. And meanwhile, I kept wondering...How can my life be even better?

That's why I got into property: I saw it as a means to enable me to realise my best life. Leaving a stable job to pursue property and entrepreneurship forced a mindset shift. I expected that, but not to the extent it then happened.

I did lots of property  and business training and really gave it my all; I wanted my life to eventually be great, and that was the driver behind my property adventures.  But despite doing everything by the book, I faced so many setbacks, uncertainty, frustration, legal and development challenges... and, crucially, the emotional toll that inevitably came with that. 

Far from getting better, my life became a daily internal struggle. Property was testing me. Constantly. Relentlessly. 

Life coaching became the turning point. Personal development became the priority.

Coaching and being coached helped me understand how the mind works under pressure, how fear and doubt show up, and how to work with negative emotions rather than against them.

I wish I had known about life coaching shooner. Doing property stuff, including approaching its problems and challenges, became deeply transformational once paired with life coaching. Today, as a result of all that, I live with time freedom, location freedom — and most importantly, mind freedom.

I help other property investors build and develop their inner strength so they too can create true inner freedom and realise their best lives.

How I Work

My coaching combines lived property experience with professional training from The Life Coach School, Achology and The Priority Academy, alongside deep study of mindset, neuroscience and behavioural change.

I’ve done the inner work alongside the building work.

So now I will help you do your own mind refurb.

My Philosophy

Property looks external, but it’s an inner game.

If your goals go beyond numbers and you care about your wellbeing, relationships and quality of life, now and in the future, then mindset mastery is essential.

Otherwise, external success comes at a huge internal cost.

I help you design success from the inside out.

Sila