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Compass Coaching
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For men who thought they'd have it figured out by now

You're not lost. You've just been walking the same road for thirty years.

Somewhere between the mortgage, the job and everyone else's needs, the question what do I actually want? stopped getting asked. I'm Gary Taylor. I help men over 50 ask it again, and then do something about the answer.

Start with a letter a week
Free. One short letter each Sunday. Leave whenever you like.

Most men don't come to me in crisis. They come because something quieter has gone wrong.

"I've got one mad idea I can't shake."

The boat. The business. The move abroad. You've never said it out loud properly, because saying it out loud makes it real.

"Everything's fine. That's the problem."

Nothing is broken enough to fix. Which is exactly why nothing changes, year after year.

"I don't know who I am without the job."

Retirement is coming, or already came. Nobody prepared you for the silence on the other side of it.

If one of those landed, you're in the right place. Not because you need fixing, you don't, but because you've been carrying the question on your own for long enough.

How this works

We start with why, not how.

Plenty of people will hand you a productivity system. I'm not one of them. The men I work with are perfectly capable of making a plan, they've made plans their whole lives. What's missing is a reason worth planning for.

So we spend our time on the harder question first: what do you actually want the next twenty years to be for? Once that's honest, the how becomes surprisingly straightforward.

One conversation, no pitch

A call where you say the thing out loud. Most men have never done that. It changes more than you'd expect.

A letter each Sunday

Short, practical, no selling. Read them for a year if you like and never speak to me. Plenty do.

Six months, when you're ready

The Future Roadmap Programme, for men who've stopped wondering and want to build the thing.

The book

Remap Your Future

The whole approach, written down, for men who'd rather read it in an armchair than book anything. If you only ever take one thing from me, take this.

Paperback £14.99 · eBook £6.99

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Sunday letters

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One short letter every Sunday morning about getting your second half right. No webinars, no countdown timers, no pressure to book anything. Ever.

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Six months, one to one

The Future Roadmap Programme

For the man who already knows something has to change, and is finally willing to be honest about what.

Six months is not an arbitrary number. It's how long it takes to stop performing the answer you think you should give, land on the real one, and get far enough into acting on it that you won't quietly drift back.

We meet every fortnight. Between sessions you have me on the phone. There is no curriculum you have to keep up with, no app, no homework you'll resent, this is a long conversation with someone whose only job is your next twenty years.

The six months, roughly

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The investment
£4,997

For the six months in full. Payable monthly if that suits you better, it makes no difference to me.

I'd rather you read the Sunday letters for six months and come to this certain, than sign up this week and wonder. There's no urgency here that isn't your own.

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The book

Remap Your Future

A short, unsentimental book for men who reached their fifties and found the map had run out.

It isn't a self-help book and it doesn't ask you to visualise anything. It's the conversation I have with clients, written down: why the drift happens, why willpower doesn't touch it, and what actually shifts things when you've got twenty or thirty good years left and no plan for them.

Read it in an evening. Sit with it for a week.

What's inside

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About

I'm Gary Taylor.

I coach men over 50 in Dorset and, over Zoom, most other places. Before this I spent a long career doing what was expected of me, reasonably well, and being quietly unsatisfied by nearly all of it.

The turning point wasn't dramatic. There was no collapse, no affair, no red sports car. Just a Tuesday where I realised I could see the whole rest of my life from where I was standing, and I didn't much fancy it.

Sorting that out took longer than it should have, largely because I tried to do it alone. Men are good at that. It's why I do this work now, not because I'm wiser than you, but because I've been where you're standing and I know how much faster it goes with someone in the room.

I work under the ethics of the Association for Coaching. What's said between us stays there.

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Dorset, United Kingdom
Weekdays 10am to 6pm · Weekends 10am to 4pm

The best chapter of your life doesn't have to be behind you.

Start with the Sunday letters. If and when you want more, you'll know where I am.