Helping you to plan for the future.
You can feel it, can’t you? The world has changed so much and so bloody fast since you set out on your journey into adulthood that you simply can’t plan ahead. Everything you look at on that phone of yours triggers stress and anxiety.
I wrote Survive Through The Chaos as a coaching guide, a new life map, or a prompt to help you wake up and start seeing how the world really works and what your place is in it nowadays. We’ve had it so easy on our couches of comfort that we’ve lost touch with the needs that drive our civilisation.
The only way you can plan for a great, compelling future is to get real about where you are starting from. It’s vital to understand three things here, and I do this throughout my coaching. Firstly, you have to understand your current life and mental state, i.e., where you are. Secondly, you need a clear understanding of where you want to head to in the future, that is, where you’d like to be. Thirdly, and most importantly, you need to understand those things stopping you between the two distinct versions of yourself. That’s why I wrote this book. It is a resilience life coaching guide to help you understand yourself now, work out who you want to be in the future, and have an understanding of where our world is heading, so you can develop the resilience to keep moving forward despite all the chaos around you.
Why I wrote this – My Midlife Crisis
When I hit my late forties, I’d done so much across so many countries that I felt I could sit back and just live my life as I used to. Midlife didn’t sneak up and ambush me, or even drag me through some crises. I just lost my spark. And nothing I did seemed to ignite my purpose again.
I’d achieved so many of the goals that I wasn’t interested in pursuing them anymore, and I didn’t “see the purpose” of doing them. I needed to do something else, so I tried different things. Nothing stuck, so I did what I always did and turned to books. For three years, I searched for ways to help myself. I realised then that I wasn’t alone in all this, and many others were struggling with it too. Then I came up with a pathway, programme, methodology, whatever you’d like to call it, that changed it all for me. I’d not only found a way out of the shit, but stumbled onto a solid roadmap to coach people to help themselves out of it. Along with that, I leveraged my 20 years as an analyst of global trends across the environment, energy, economics, and geopolitics to develop tips and tools to strengthen my own resilience for a future that is so fluid that no one can say for certain how it will turn out.
While I focus on helping people in their midlife who are stuck and questioning their past and future thinking, that doesn’t mean younger people can’t benefit from the book. People in midlife have done everything right in their lives, according to the checklist they were taught, which was the historical playbook for a successful life. Take away that playbook, and you have a group of people who are lost in their present, focusing on the past with no clear path forward. Right now, we’re all living according to an old, broken playbook, and only those who learn about this and understand this will have a chance to navigate the future.
How this book can help build your resilience
I deliberately broke the book down into two essential parts to help you on your journey towards building a new, future-focused version of yourself and growing a resilient understanding of the world you want to build that compelling future in.
Part 1: Building your inner strength
Before you can tackle the world, you need to fix and redesign the foundation on which you want to build. In coaching and the self-help world, these are often referred to as your inner strength or mindset. In this guide, you’ll learn to:
- Accept who you are in midlife by taking the positive from your past.
- Find your “true north” by redesigning your vision and purpose for the second half of your life.
- Reclaim your focus from digital overload and “echo-chamber outrage culture.”
- Build a physical and mental fortress so you have the energy to take the lead in your life when others are folding.
Part 2: Navigating the changing world
Once you’re strong, you need to be smart. We take what’s happening in the macro world and make it more personal. I’ll walk you through:
- The future of work: How to stop fearing AI and start using it as a tool.
- Financial sovereignty: Learn about the basics of money and the economy so you can take control of your finances and move past outdated traditional beliefs you’ve been taught to build real security.
- Global shifts: Understanding how geopolitics and environmental realities actually impact your daily life. We discuss my 17-point Complacent Collapse model to help you understand what is changing and how it will dramatically alter your path in life.
Don’t just survive. Grow
The people who thrive in the coming decade won’t be the ones with the most luck or the most amount of money. They’ll be the ones with the best map to help steer themselves through the coming troubles. This is your invitation to wake up, put down your outdated playbook, and start building a life that isn’t just okay, but truly compelling. The chaos is coming. Let’s make sure you’re ready to navigate it.
