A real answer to "is this it?" — in your own handwriting.
A 14-day future-cast that turns "is this it?" into a year you live on purpose, by consulting the 90-year-old version of you. For high-performers who've checked every box and quietly lost the point.
The Striver
You're climbing fast, and climbing well. The trouble is the scoreboard was handed to you — a parent's, an old coach's, an industry default you never stopped to pick. The Kit is where you find out which of those targets are actually yours.
The Validator
Every win is evidence submitted to a jury that never adjourns. You're tired of proving. The Kit shows you what your drive is for when there's no one left to convince.
The Drifter
The fuel that used to work ran out, and nothing replaced it. You're still moving — the calendar carries you — but you stopped driving a while ago. The Kit helps you find the one thing that still has a pulse, and point a year at it.
- You hit the goal you chased for years, and the feeling you were promised never showed up.
- You can name exactly what's wrong, and knowing hasn't changed a single thing on your calendar.
- It feels like you're carrying all of it alone — even surrounded by people, even on every call.
- You're still chasing a scoreboard you never actually picked — a parent's, an old coach's, an industry default.
- Every win is just evidence submitted to a jury that never adjourns.
- "I'll sort it out when things calm down" has been the plan for over a year, and they haven't calmed down.
- You're good at the work and can't find the point of it anymore.
- You keep performing harder to outrun a question that only gets louder.
- You've read the books and done the journaling, and you still can't say what you'd actually move toward.
- Part of you knows the next achievement won't fix this. Another part feels like stopping would erase you.
Trying to think your way to clarity
Analysis breeds more analysis. What moves you is putting a stake in the ground and testing it — the one thing rumination never makes you do.
Waiting for things to calm down
The calm never arrives, and the question compounds. Every year you defer is a year you don't get back.
Reaching for a bigger achievement
The same fuel that left you empty, burned hotter. You can't fix a dirty-fuel problem with more dirty fuel.
Blowing it all up
Sometimes a clean break is right. Just as often, the dramatic exit relocates the same borrowed scoreboard to a new zip code. Know which problem you have before you blow anything up.
Picture the version of next year where you actually did this.
You wake up on a Monday and the dread isn't there. The job didn't change. You just finally know what you're doing it for. You can say what matters to you in one sentence, and your calendar has started — in small, real ways — to agree with you.
When a hard call comes, you don't spiral for a week. You ask the ninety-year-old version of you, and he answers. Decisions that used to cost you a month now cost you an afternoon.
And here's what surprises most people: the answer is smaller and more human than they expected. More presence. More time pointed at the handful of people who'd actually celebrate with you. A year you'd be glad you spent.
That's what two weeks can buy you — a year you chose, in your own handwriting.
Self-guided and async — no scheduling, no cohort. Two weeks, about 30–45 minutes a few times a week.
Week 1 — Clarity
Future-cast to ninety, then to the fifteen-year version you're afraid of, then back to what this year has to hold. Build Solomon and consult him as you decide. End with 3–5 priorities, each with a way to tell you're moving.
Week 2 — One test
Take the priority that scared you most to write down. Turn it into one small experiment. Run it in your real week. Then debrief — with Solomon, and on paper.
Two weeks. One honest answer. One thing you actually did about it.
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The 90-Year Vision
Guided prompts for a normal Tuesday and Saturday at ninety: who's in the room, what you're doing, how it feels. The part that's hardest to do cold, made simple.
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The 15-Year Hell
A contrast worksheet for the version you're quietly afraid of, and the choices that lead there. The part the research says makes the whole thing work.
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The Walk-Back
Bridge the vision to now: a five-year snapshot, then 3–5 priorities for the next twelve months, each with a way to tell you're actually moving.
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Build Your Solomon
Turn your vision into a ninety-year-old version of you who knows how this goes and wants your good. A standing advisor you can consult on the hard calls.
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The One Experiment
The Week-2 designer: take your scariest priority, shrink it to one small test, run it in your real week, debrief on paper.
All of it in one fillable workbook — yours in both PDF and Notion, so you can write by hand or type.
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The Solomon AI Coach
A prompt and a short guide to turn your future-cast into a custom AI version of Solomon you can talk to any time. Most people's clarity dies in a drawer two weeks after they find it. This keeps your ninety-year-old self in your pocket — there for the next hard call, the next offer, the next "should I?"
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My own future-cast
The actual, messy, scribbled version I did on myself — so you're never staring at a blank page wondering if you're doing it right. You'll see exactly what "honest and unpolished" looks like.
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Your Archetype Playbook
Matched to your quiz result. The specific trap your type falls into when future-casting — a Striver writes a "hell" that looks like their current win; a Validator pictures a ninety-year-old still seeking approval — and how to catch it. So the exercise works the way your mind actually bends.
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The Guided Audio Walkthrough
Me walking you through the ninety-year-old Tuesday and Saturday — the hardest part to do cold and alone. Ten minutes, eyes closed, like having me in the room for the opening.
Structured self-authoring works — it's a real category, from low-cost writing programs around $30 to the executive coaching that opens with this exact exercise at $29,000 for twelve sessions.
A $30 program hands you the prompts and leaves you alone with them. Coaching gives you the method and a guide, at a price most people can't justify for one question.
The Future Self Kit sits in between — the coach's actual sequence, an AI advisor built from your own answers, and a read matched to your quiz result.
- The 90-Year Vision
- The 15-Year Hell
- The Walk-Back
- Build Your Solomon
- The One Experiment
- The fillable workbook (PDF + Notion)
- Bonus: the Solomon AI Coach
- Bonus: my own worked example
- Bonus: your archetype playbook
- Bonus: the guided audio walkthrough
The same work, with me in the room, starts at $29,000 for twelve sessions. The Kit is $97 — once, yours to re-run every year.
I'm Danny Kenny. I'm a behavioral scientist — a PhD, a decade of behavior-change and leadership work, and a coaching practice where this exact exercise is how I open with most clients.
I also spent years running on fuel that wasn't mine, performing my way past the question. (Two weeks out from submitting the PhD, I was sure the letters after my name would change something. They didn't.) The future-cast is what finally got me — and the people I work with — closer to an honest answer.
I built the Kit so you can run the first pass on your own, without booking me.
PhD, Behavioral Science — University of Technology Sydney
A decade coaching executives and designing leadership programs inside complex organizations — including Pfizer, Anheuser-Busch, and Yale
Interviews leading thinkers on performance and meaning for Big Think
Writes Seeking Wisdom — essays for high-achievers on the gap between achievement and aliveness
Runs this future-cast as the opening move with private coaching clients
Real reactions from people who’ve run this exercise with me, shared with permission. Names withheld.
“I don’t want to live ninety-nine years just chasing the next thing. I want to do work that, when it pays off, you celebrate with the people you love.”
“At no point did I name a title or a status. It feels all very relational — and that feels human and good.”
“The thing that surprised me was being able to reach what I actually want — feel it, say it. There’s conviction now.”
Run the two weeks. If you come out the other side without a clearer picture of the year you want, email me and I'll refund every cent — no forms, no hoops. I'd rather hand your $97 back than have it sitting in my account doing nothing for you.
The only ask: actually do it. A workbook you never opened can't give you anything back.
Two weeks from now you could have an answer — or be asking the same question, a little more tired.
You already know the question isn't going away. You've carried it through the last promotion, the last "once things calm down," the last quiet Sunday night. The ninety-year-old version of you already knows what to do. This is how you ask him.
The Future Self Kit is $97, once, yours for life.
Is this just journaling?
No. It's a structured sequence — vision, contrast, walk-back, one real experiment — with a method behind each step. Journaling is open-ended; this points somewhere.
I've done vision exercises before. What's here that wasn't?
The contrast (the fifteen-year "hell" the research says makes it work), Solomon as a standing advisor you keep, a read matched to your type, and an experiment that makes you act, not just imagine.
I don't have time.
Two weeks, 30–45 minutes a few times a week. Less than you'll spend re-asking yourself the same question on the commute.
Is this therapy?
No. It's behavioral and practical — about what you'll actually do, not unpacking your childhood.
What if I don't know what matters? Isn't that the whole problem?
That's exactly who it's for. The Kit is built to surface it, not to assume you already have it.
Do I need to have taken the quiz first?
It helps — your archetype playbook is matched to it — but no. The Kit stands on its own.
What's "Solomon"? Is it a religious thing?
It's just a name for a wise, ninety-year-old version of you who advises you. Name yours whatever you like.
Is $97 worth it for something self-guided?
It's the exercise I open $29,000 coaching engagements with, and you keep it for life and re-run it every year. You decide.
What if it doesn't work for me?
Do the work and email me if it didn't give you a clearer year — full refund.
How is this different from working with you directly?
This is the opening move, self-guided. The one-to-one work goes far deeper over months. The Kit is where you start.