Your life works.
You're just not sure it's the one you want.
You may be doing well on paper. You've built a career, made sensible decisions, and created a life that works.
But something no longer fits.
A decision keeps getting postponed. An ambition remains untouched.
You've become very good at doing something you're no longer sure you want to pursue.
And you might have the sense that the direction you're moving in isn't entirely your own.
Congruence is a structured process for stepping outside your current momentum and looking clearly at where you're going, or could go next.
Together, we'll examine where you are, what really drives you, the contradictions and the blind spots that may be holding you back today, and what meaningful movement looks like for you now.
The objective isn't to redesign your entire life.
It's to move one important part of it from intention into reality.
The Pilot.
I'm currently developing the first version of Congruence with a small group of participants.
The process is simple. It's just four conversations over six weeks:
1. Discovery — establish an honest picture of where you are.
2. Exploration — what do you actually want and what may have shaped those wants.
3. Opportunity — identify any contradictions, assumptions, or blind spots that may be keeping you stuck.
4. Action — pick one meaningful area and turn what we've learned into a concrete 30/60/90-day course of action.
Congruence isn't therapy, medical advice, or another personality test. Nor is it a promise to transform your life quickly.
Rather, it's an opportunity to examine your situation, challenge some of your current life-model's assumptions, and act on what you find.
> I'm looking for the first 20 people to help test and refine the process.
About William.
Why am I building Congruence?
Between 2023 and 2025, many of my Monday mornings started at 5:15 a.m. with a three-and-a-half-hour train ride to the office, often after a night of insomnia.
At 7 p.m., after too much caffeine and too little sleep, I'd take the same train back in the other direction.
I was often sick, operating well below my best, strained and increasingly aware that something wasn't working.
But the money was good.
So I kept going.
Eventually, some fairly obvious questions became difficult to ignore;
Was the money worth it?
Was the life I was building actually going somewhere I wanted to go?
Was it making me a better man, friend and companion to the people around me?
When that chapter unexpectedly came to an end, I took a year off and finally turned toward something I'd been postponing for years: finishing a literary novel.
I knew I needed to do it. Not because writing a novel was necessarily the sensible thing to do, but because I had spent too long ignoring something that mattered deeply to me.
And writing it became an education of its own.
Because creating a narrative meant taking things that had existed only in my head such as characters, dialogues, possibilities, an entire world, and alchemising them into reality, one page at a time.
Somewhere in that process, I realized I was learning something beyond writing.
I was learning how to stop negotiating indefinitely with something I already knew mattered to me.
How to give myself permission to begin. How to tolerate uncertainty. How to turn an intention I'd carried for years into something real.
That experience became one of the starting points for Congruence.
Most people can't take a year away from their lives to reconsider everything. Nor do I think they necessarily should.
But I became interested in whether some of what took me a year to work through could be approached more deliberately: by stepping outside the momentum of everyday life, examining what actually matters, questioning the assumptions that keep us where we are, and finding a meaningful place to begin moving.
That's what I'm trying to build with Congruence.
I'm not here to tell you what your life should look like. I can't. And I don't think anyone else can either.
My role is to listen carefully, ask difficult questions, challenge assumptions when they deserve challenging, and help you examine the distance between where you are and where you say you want to go.
This first version of Congruence is deliberately a pilot. I'm working directly with a small group of people to understand where the method genuinely helps, where it doesn't, and how it should evolve.
If some of this sounds familiar, I'd be glad to explore it with you.