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Life Coaching for Men Over 50 | Compass Coaching, Dorset
Compass Coaching, life coaching for men over 50 in Dorset
Life coaching for men over 50 · Dorset and online

There is a question you have been carrying for a long time, and no good place to put it down.

Something along the lines of: is this it? I'm Gary Taylor. I work with men over fifty who have arrived at that question and would rather answer it properly than wait it out.

Begin where nothing is asked of you. A short letter, every Sunday.

Thank you. The first letter arrives on Sunday.
No charge, no obligation, and nothing sold to you.
Gary Taylor, life coach for men over 50

Men usually arrive here for one of three reasons.

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The approach

We do not begin with what you should do. We begin with what any of it is for.

You have spent thirty years knowing how to get things done. That was never the problem. The problem is that somewhere along the way you stopped being asked what you actually wanted, and eventually stopped asking yourself. Everything I do starts there, and nothing useful happens before it.

Read

Remap Your Future

The whole of it, written down, for an evening in an armchair. For many men this is enough, and I'm glad when it is.

Work together

The Future Roadmap

Six months, one to one, for a small number of men each year. By conversation only, I'd rather turn you away than take you on wrongly.

Questions men ask before they begin

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Six months, one to one

The Future Roadmap

Half a year in the company of someone whose only concern is your next twenty. Fortnightly, unhurried, and entirely private.

Six months is simply how long the thing takes. Long enough to stop giving the answer you think you ought to give. Long enough to arrive at the true one. And long enough to be far enough into acting on it that you won't quietly drift back to the old road in the spring.

There is no curriculum, no app and no homework you'll resent. There is a conversation every fortnight, and me at the end of a telephone in between.

The shape of the six months

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Probably not if

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The fee
£4,997

For the six months entire, or monthly if that sits better. It begins with a conversation rather than a payment, a half hour on the telephone in which either of us may decide against it.

Arrange the conversation

And if the timing is wrong, the Sunday letters cost nothing and will still be here.
A short book

Remap Your Future

Written for the man who would rather read it quietly than book anything at all.

It asks you to visualise nothing and affirm nothing. It is an honest account of why capable men drift in their fifties, why effort alone does not touch it, and what does. Read it in an evening; sit with it for a week.

If you never speak to me after it, the book will have done its job.

Contents

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The first chapter, free

Leave your address and I'll send it, along with the Sunday letters. If the chapter isn't for you, the letters won't be either, and leaving takes one click.

On its way.
Journal

Writing on midlife, work and what comes next

Notes from twenty years of conversations with men over 50. Most of these began life as a Sunday letter.

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Read the piece

These arrive by email first

One short letter every Sunday. Nothing is asked of you.

Thank you. The first letter arrives on Sunday.
Gary Taylor · Dorset

I spent a decade knowing something was wrong and saying so to nobody.

A long career, done reasonably well, doing more or less what was expected of me. From the outside, entirely fine. That is rather the point, it usually is.

There was no collapse and no red sports car. There was a Tuesday on which I could see the whole remainder of my life from where I was standing, and did not much care for the view. Putting that right took years longer than it needed to, because I tried to do it alone. Men are remarkably good at that.

So I do this now, not because I am wiser than you, but because I have stood where you are standing and I know how much quicker it goes with someone else in the room.

I work under the ethics of the Association for Coaching. What is said between us stays between us, permanently and without exception.

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

Start with a letter on Sunday

Nothing is asked of you. Read for a year if you like, a good many men do, and never book a thing.