We LOVE escape rooms. Every time our family is in town, we have to do at least one together. So we got to thinking. What if LIFE were like an escape room, and there was a gamemaster you could ask for hints along the way? Hence, Project Quartz was born.

Our Little Free Library is like the free hints you get up front (e.g., “to reset the directional lock, squeeze it twice”): it’s filled with 20 of our favorite life-changing tools that we think everyone should know about. For example: The Five Senses: Make a list of five things that bring joy to each of your five senses. Now you have a ready-made list of 25 things to turn to whenever you want a little more joy in your life.

If you like the Little Free Library, you'll love The Makerspace. The Makerspace is our growing collection of 200+ additional tools to help you make your life even more awesome (whatever “awesome” looks like to you!). In the escape room analogy, they’re like all the most useful hints the gamemaster has ever given for the room (“you’re on the right track, but did you notice the colors?”), right at your fingertips, whenever you need them. Drawn from over 300 sources, these tools aren’t your average “200 ways to…” They’re the top 1% of tools available—literally! Nick presents about 5% of the tools he reads about to Melissa, and she chooses about 1/5 of those to include in The Makerspace (5% / 5 = 1%, literally). In other words, for just $10 a month, you can have a whole bookstore’s worth of ideas at your fingertips, without needing to take the time to read all those books!

If you want to take things one step further, and literally have a gamemaster for your life, we also offer 1-on-1 Coaching. You tell us what you’re looking for in life, and we recommend the best tools from The Makerspace to help you get it. Similar to the gamemaster of an escape room, we let you play your own game: we simply give you helpful hints to make the game more fun. In other words, as coaches, we don’t have an agenda, we simply want to help you live the life you want!

If any of this intrigues you, check us out. We can’t wait to see you in the escape room of life!