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Life may not have turned out as you planned. That does not mean your story is over. You can acknowledge what has happened, rediscover what matters and begin taking steps towards what comes next. 

The central premise is that your next chapter does not have to be a continuation of your previous one.

You might have lost a job, experienced business failure, faced a serious illness, reached a personal crossroads, lost confidence, experienced a relationship breakdown, or simply realised that the life you built no longer fits the person you are becoming.

You may not have chosen your circumstances. But you can begin to explore your choices.

Anyone who has survived a serious life event but feels uncertain about what comes next.

The midlife reader questioning identity, achievement, ambition or purpose.

The individual who looks successful to others but privately feels lost, exhausted or unfulfilled.

Anyone who knows that something needs to change but cannot yet see a clear way forward.

Professionals whose career has stalled, ended or taken an unexpected turn.

Entrepreneurs or business owner rebuilding after failure.

We spend a considerable part of our lives making plans.  We plan our education, our careers and our businesses. We plan where we want to live, the relationships we hope to build, the experiences we want to enjoy and the person we believe we will eventually become.

We set goals. We make decisions. We work hard. We imagine the future and, if we are fortunate, we begin to see some of those ambitions become reality.  We assume that tomorrow will bear at least some resemblance to the future we have imagined - then life intervenes.

A business fails. A job disappears. A relationship ends. A diagnosis changes everything. An opportunity we had counted on never materialises. Something we believed to be permanent turns out to be anything but.

Sometimes the change arrives suddenly, without warning. At other times, it happens gradually, until one day we realise that the life we have been working so hard to maintain is no longer the life we want, or perhaps the life we are able, to live.

And there we are - standing somewhere we never intended to be, looking at a future we do not recognise, wondering what happens next.

I know something about that place.  My own journey has included business success and failure, unemployment, depression and the experience of surviving two life-threatening cancers. These are very different experiences, each with its own challenges, emotions and consequences. They cannot be neatly compared, and I would never suggest that they can.

But they have each taught me something about uncertainty, identity, the limits of control and the difficult business of moving forward when circumstances refuse to follow the plan.  They have also taught me that surviving an experience and knowing what to do afterwards are two very different things.

We often concentrate on getting through the immediate crisis. We focus on the next appointment, the next decision, the next bill, the next interview or simply getting through another day.  That is understandable. Sometimes it is all we can manage.

But what happens when the immediate crisis begins to recede? What happens when the phone stops ringing with updates, the initial shock begins to settle or the practical demands of survival give way to a quieter, more difficult question - what now?

Who am I after what has happened?

What do I want from the life I have left?

Is it possible to begin again without pretending that the past never happened?

And how do I move forward when I cannot yet see where I am going?

These are the questions at the heart of this book.

It's planned to launch the book in early 2027, just fill out the form below to receive advanced notice and a special introductory price.