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

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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)

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