According to Forbes, Warren Buffett, arguably the world’s greatest ever investor, was worth 150 billion US dollars in 2025. So, it might be fair to say that his recently written ‘retirement’ letter has no relevance to our lives at all. After all, regardless of how well we’ve done from a financial standpoint, not many of us are likely to be in Buffett […]
How did you sleep last night? Not “fine.” Not “okay.” How did you actually sleep? How long were you in deep sleep? How much REM sleep did you get? How many times did you wake during the night without even realising it? For most of us, the honest answer is that we have no idea. […]
There is a blue willow pattern Chinese plate sitting in my memory that, in a roundabout way, explains exactly why What Happens Next exists. Let me take you back. Primary school, East London, mid-1980s. I was the sort of kid who noticed if someone was sitting on their own at break time. Not because anyone […]
About 18 months ago, I picked up a padel tennis racket for the first time. I had no idea what I was doing. I did not understand the angles, the glass, the positioning or the rhythm of the game. I lost every single match. I was, without question, the worst person on the court. Everyone […]
I want to tell you about a conversation I had recently with a client. Let’s call him David. David is a senior manager at a professional services firm. He’s in his mid-forties, works incredibly hard, and a few months ago he called me genuinely excited. He’d just had his annual review and his employer had […]
Here are seven “What Happens Next” style experiments simple, cheap, and designed to create data about what fits you. The 4-Week Creative Sampler Week 1: drawing. Week 2: writing. Week 3: music. Week 4: photography. At the end, rate each out of 10 for enjoyment and wanting to do it again. The “Bad Art” Challenge Make something deliberatelydays. This is exposure therapy for perfectionism. The […]
We talk a lot on What Happens next on finding purpose, meaning and overall wellbeing in our 50’s, 60’s and beyond. But here’s the thing. We should also find more time in the next chapter of our lives to do stuff we’re simply going to love to do. After all, we are allowed a bit more time to do a […]
Were the spice girls right? A lot of the questions in this book are all about understanding what you want. Not just what you want, but as Mel B exclaimed in the spice girl’s classic what you ‘really really want’ I remember one conversation I had with a client who told me that, whilst having […]
Our family loves the Olympic Park. As proud East Londoners seeing what the Olympics bought in terms of regeneration of that part of London has been amazing. A walk or cycle around the Olympic Park will certainly entertain for a while, with the additional advantage of having access to some great live sport. Clearly a […]
In 2022 there was a 51 million active Youtube channels and over a billion videos available to watch. I love YouTube. Whilst like anything online, it’s really easy to waste time, there’s also so much content available on YouTube which combines insight, usefulness but is also enjoyable to watch. In todays article I want to […]