A recurring thought for me and probably for a lot of people: Can life be reduced down to one thing? Arguably, yes. Obviously, we need to be able to feed and house ourselves and meet our responsibilities; but after that, what is really important? What is it that we really want to do? Where do we have the most talent?

The older you get, the answers perhaps become a lot clearer. It’s about sitting down and taking 20 minutes a day to be with that thought. To live in that place that you want to be in the future.

It is often said that 'blondes have more fun,' or put another way, optimistic people get more out of life. Of course, we are living in a period of change. The Second World War was a period of change. The Industrial Revolution was a period of change. The Romans leaving Great Britain was a period of change. These changes brought forward things that could not have been thought possible. The level of healthcare we have today simply could not have been imagined even 200 years ago. So, the future is hard for us to imagine. However, at the basic level, we will keep doing the things we have always done."

Here are two very different takes on the next five years:

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