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Exploring and preparing for
YOUR future
Verne Wheelwright, PHD
THREE steps
ONE:
Understand your life
TWO:
Explore Alternate Futures
THREE:
Create a Vision, Strategies and
Plans
Free PDF Workbook
www.personalfutures.net
STEP ONE:
Understand your lifeThis is your foundation.
Everything else depends on what you learn here.
Ten STAGES of life
10 time frames10 images of the future
10 important changes in life
Stakeholders in your future
Six PERSONAL Domains
Contain the driving forces and trends in your life
These forces are in your life
(and in everyone’s life)from birth to death
Plot your life up to now
Putting boundaries on the future
External (STEEP) forces
• Social change• Technological change• Ecological change• Economic change• Political change
ANTICIPATE
Events that may occur in
your life
PERSONAL values
Your guide to your strategies
and actions
STEP TWO:
Explore
YOUR alternative futures
First scenario:
Extending the Present Into the Future
A Positive Scenario
Second scenario
A Negative Scenario
Third scenario
a transformational or “wild card” scenario
• low probability, high impact change
a transformational
or “wild card” scenario…
Fourth scenario
Writing Scenarios
Yes, write your scenarios as a story to show the
forces at work.
STEP THREE:
VISION, STRATEGIES and PLANSfor your future
(personal strategic planning)
Start with a VISION of your next ten years
A vision is a destination
STRATEGIES
…to achieve YOUR vision of
YOUR future
Create an Action Plan
For each strategy, identify a sequence of actions over the next
ten years
Live
Your Plan
Judged“Most Important Futures Work”
2012(Association of Professional
Futurists)
Available in paperback or eBook at Amazon.com, iTunes and most
on-line bookstores or at www.personal futures.net
Available in several languages
