Every rebuild
starts with
a survey
Before you knock anything down, find out what you're actually working with.
Free. Five quick questions, then it is yours.
The survey on the surveyor
measured, not claimed
Hello, I'm Leon
I have rebuilt my life from nothing three times. Once when the 2008 crash closed my seven-figure construction company, once when Brexit took every haulage contract overnight, and once when neither of those was the actual problem.
Something no longer fits
From the outside it looks fine. The work gets done and the bills get paid. Underneath, something has stopped fitting. Tick what you recognise.
Snag list
- Working hard, can't say what towards
- Something ended and nothing replaced it
- Money coming in, no direction
- Keep starting things and stopping them
- The advice sounds like it's for someone else
- Not in crisis. Not settled either.
None of that makes you weak. The usual advice just starts four steps too far along.
Nothing you have built is wasted
A fresh start sounds like freedom. It's a demolition order.
If you called me about a house with a cracked wall and I turned up and said knock it down, you'd get another builder. You'd be right to.
Survey first. Keep what's sound, take out only what's rotten.
The five load-bearing parts of a life, as The Rebuild surveys them
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The Weekly Reset
The sheet I still use myself. Plan the week, review it, clear your head.
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The Rebuild Companion Pack
Six pages that sit beside the book and work without it. Starts with a survey of seven areas.
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The whole argument, in one book
"If I was reviewing The Rebuild for publication, I'd give it five stars out of five."
David Chadwick, novelist and retired journalist
Where next
Writing
One proper article a week, from identity and fear to work after forty.
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About Leon
Seven countries, three rebuilds, no qualifications, and what that turned out to be worth.
The full story
Speaking
Renovate, Don't Demolish. Twenty-five minutes for business groups, events and bookshops.
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You do not have to decide anything today. Find out what you are working with first. Everything else can wait until you know that.
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