His approach changed my life dramatically. Just reading it has shifted something for me already! Bruce Stanley you are bloody brilliant.
Charlie Ewer, Apprenticeship
Day Crafting is a phenomenal way to take control of your calendar, reclaim your energy, assess why you do things, and make small shifts for a healthy balanced life. The Day Crafting Course helped me realign my day, realise my most productive times, optimise and safeguard my time from derailments, and go deeper into the why behind my bad habits. I think this is a course everyone needs!
Rev. Monica Childers, Apprenticeship
Day Crafting has changed my life improving my productivity and the balance of activities (work and pleasure) in my life. Using the analogy of craft work and apprenticeship you can learn a whole series of tools and techniques to intentionally craft good days one day at a time. You won't be disappointed.
Nick B, Workbook
I love to learn, I've done lots of courses, and this is the course I've spoken to more people about than anything in years. Day Crafting has given me tools to carve out time for peace and creativity which has meant I haven't felt overwhelmed. It's like a gift of time I wouldn't normally make time for.
Emma Major, Apprenticeship
Life changing! A really easy to use and interesting way to change how to live my life. The exercises are fun and thought provoking and really helped me to make changes right away, in that moment.
Miss E C C Ewer-Smith, Workbook
As a mum of 3 and running two small businesses I often find my days just fill up and I end up feeling overwhelmed. I made what feels a very radical step of scheduling in a 2 hour lunch break including a nap and a walk which has actually made me far more productive. Would definitely recommend.
Rosie Freeman, Apprenticeship
This book together with Day Crafting the Change Workbook changed the way I live my day. It helped me understand what motivates me and what hinders me, what are the most optimum times for me to do creative work and radically improved my self-care. Highly recommend.
Sarah Best, Workbook
The course could have been superficial and light-weight; instead it has proven to be substantial, thoroughly researched and challenging. Bruce is passionate about the subject and delivers the course with compassion and humour. The exercises have the potential to create not just quick fixes for fun, but real long term happiness.
Ian Gregory, Apprenticeship
I wasn’t sure what to expect from Day Crafting, but it has been more than I could have hoped for. I have so much to take away, and I already feel the impact of what I have been taught. I am learning to craft my days for good, not just for myself but so that I am a benefit to others.
Rev. Judith Holliman, Apprenticeship
The Day Crafting apprentice course is excellent. It has helped me create life-giving daily rhythms and confidence in how to best schedule my days for work, rest and play. The simple art of setting an intention for the day can lead into a day that feels more giving and constructive.
Matt Freer, Apprenticeship
Bruce's course is a goldmine of wisdom, experience and practical tools to help craft your days. Living a more intentional life, not a busier life was my goal when I joined the course and Bruce offered so much useful information to help me achieve this. I have plenty of material to reflect on for months to come.
Anna Macdonald, Apprenticeship
This final book in the Daycrafting series has helped me navigate a couple of relatively small changes very successfully. The principles apply to the much bigger picture of the whole of our life and its meaning and purpose. The book made me notice things that I do without thinking and then gave really practical steps to making the most of my strengths.
Discerning, Workbook
Fascinating, practical, captivating. I love the concept of Day Crafting, all the handbooks are clear, digestible and easy to use. Bloody brilliant.
Emily Denham, Workbook
I really enjoyed this book. Day crafting is a combination of inspirational thinking and achievable practical application of that thinking. This book won’t change your life, but it really can give you the tools to do so yourself.
Bryce Travers, Workbook
It's a manageable 101 pages packed with practical ideas, exercises, activities and tools for bringing a craftsperson's approach to your days. It turns time into intentionally designed periods in which to make meaningful progress rather than mindlessly reacting to demands on your time and energy. It's an excellent overview of the practice.
GP, Workbook
What if today became your favourite creative project?
You already know how to pour effort into work, home, hobbies – but have you ever turned that same craft-maker’s eye onto the raw material of a single day? Picture stepping into the workshop of morning light, tools laid out, ready to shape the next 24-hour block into something purposeful, balanced and quietly brilliant.
Who is the Day Crafting Apprenticeship for?
This is for you if you’re attracted to the craftsperson's journey and the rhythm of curiosity, practice and appreciation. Learning here owes more to patterns of presence, play and experimentation than to long-term goals or willpower.
This is for you if you have the desire to develop yourself for the benefit of others. Expression and mastery as an artist can be intrinsically motivated and serve primarily yourself, nothing wrong with that, but craft-work tends to lean more outwards – our crafted days recognise that we’re part of communities and serve others.
To varying degrees, you’ve been doing this for most of your life. Each new day can be left on default or you can begin gently to see where improvements can be made. Mastery comes with 10,000 hours (so it is said) but any 24 hours under conscious Day Crafting counts (that’s just over a year away if you start now). And you will have accumulated valuable accredited prior learning.
The future depends on what you do today.
Mahatma Gandhi
Find out which of these is right for you:
Left untended, days fill themselves – meetings nibble the margins, screens blur the hours, good intentions wait for “someday”. The result? Satisfying productivity and inner steady-ness stay on the wish-list, while energy and wellbeing see-saw depending on everyone else’s agenda.
Imagine a rhythm that matches your own strengths and energy curve; a schedule that feels hand-tooled rather than factory-issued. You move through tasks with clear intention, pause for restoration before the tank runs dry, and still have room for play, learning and unhurried conversation. Each evening closes with the quiet satisfaction of having lived, not merely ticked boxes. It’s the good life in two steps: balance and flourish today, then repeat tomorrow.
The five workbooks above are a portable studio. Each volume teaches a different craft-technique – setting daily intention, balancing energy, designing meaningful rhythms, cultivating delight, and reflecting for continuous improvement. Used together they form a self-paced apprenticeship: light on theory, heavy on experiments you can run tomorrow morning. No need for another lofty goal-setting manual; these are blueprints for shaping the day you’re actually in.
An alternative methodology
Day Crafting differs from the typical territory of coaching (hoping for big changes and defining ambitious goals). For many people, this framework doesn't work. A lot of goal- and plan-based coaching is counterproductive. It can lower your chances of 'winning', postpone happiness, bring about only momentary changes, and trigger an end to the practice that made the difference if you win.
The evidence that persuades me says that what motivates adults to develop is a creative, problem-oriented perspective where experiments can be tried immediately and where change is cumulative and every day contains balance and flourishing.
We can either dream dreams we'll never arrive at because we de-emphasise the practice required – or accept that the behavioural, here-and-now is where we live and reorientate ourselves to crafting when matters most – now, today.