About

Things That Make Me Stop Walking is your quiet companion, accompanying you on your long evening walks to help you process, reflect and decompress, as you pursue your goals to leave a lasting legacy.

There’s a particular emphasis on the role of Art & Culture in helping us achieve, and sustain, both real world success and refined character; not just through theory, but through experience and stories peppered with a sense of wonder.

We look at how taste forms, discerns and explore all the ways it enhances and shapes our lives to open a whole realm of new possibilities.

The Pillars

Discovery

Sometimes unfamiliar, and sometimes a deep sense of knowing made visible. Turning emotion, intuition, and subtle experiences into language that reveals new ways of seeing and being.

Pursuit

Defining and applying how people, values, and systems transform through awareness, choice, and redefinition.

Legacy

What legacy truly means, how it forms, lives and passes on, as well as all the mediums which play an active role in value creation and succession.

What’s in a name?

Does the name Things that make me stop walking sound bizarre, long winded, grammatically annoying?

One sunny day I was walking down a London road with my colleague, and we came across a florist. Anyone who knows me knows I have the tendency to stop in my tracks to capture a moment (much to their dismay). And this moment was no different. I spotted the sunlight hitting these blooms and asked ‘Neil, do you mind if we stop for a second so I can take a picture?'

Super simple serendipity.

Londoner | Lover | Marketer
| Full time aesthete

I’m British Pakistani, born and raised in London where I still reside. I’ve worked in Marketing & Communications for 10 years across many industries.

Everything else we can share along the way.

Anam x

Welcome to slow blogging

This is a space shaped by intention. I do not post for the sake of frequency or reach. If a story does not feel worth telling, or an image cannot capture what I truly saw or felt, it will remain unseen. You may find the rhythm of posts here to be occasional rather than constant - once, maybe twice, a month. That is by design. In this corner of the internet, quality and authenticity prevail over quantity or momentum. Welcome x