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An Overview
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is a personal future? As we look at personal futures here, they are explorations of the future of one individual, you, and
only the futures that directly involve you and your family.
The approach we will take consists of three steps:
(1)-Build a framework of information about your life.
(2)-From
the information in the framework, explore your plausible futures with scenarios.
(3)-From the scenarios, develop a vision of
your future, devise strategies to achieve your vision and make action plans for your future.
In exploring your future, you
will use the same methods that have been practiced by futurists for decades, all over the world. At the end of this process,
you should have an overview and a vision of your life, specific plans for the next stage of life, and contingency plans to
deal with changes.
Following is a more detailed outline of these three steps in learning about your future.
| - Personal Research
Life stages
Personal domains
Life
events
Your plans, goals and values - Personal
Scenarios
Develop a scenario matrix
Examine the forces and the logics in your life
Create four scenarios - Personal Strategic Planning
Create a vision of your future
Develop strategies
Develop action plans
Develop contingency
plans - And the final step....LIVE YOUR PLAN!
| Personal research is simply a matter of collecting and organizing information about your life.
Pages on this site will guide you through the process, which will focus on fourspecific areas of life that provide some clues
about your future. They include: | | - Life Stages- ten stages of life
that provide images of your future, indicate important change points in life and provide time frames for planning.
- Personal Domains- six areas of life that represent the forces that move through our
lives, any one of which can be a driving force that dominates life for a period of time.
- Life Events- the events in life that can be anticipated, both for probability of occurence and for impact
on your life.
- Personal values-recognie the values that guide
your life
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| You will find separate pages on this site for each of these three areas
of research, including some worksheets. You may copy these worksheets into your word processor or you can go to the "Downloads"
page and download the Personal Futures Workbook (free). The next page, Life Stages will describe ten stages of life, a brief
image of each stage and the very important changes that take place as you move from one stage to the next. |
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The Personal Futures Workbook is available
as a FREE download on the "Downloads" page.
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