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Released 21 February 2023
ISBN: 9789403683508 (Print)
ISBN: 9789403689685 (eBook) |
Does thinking about the future fill you with hope or dread?
If it was up to you, what would your future be like? Do you know how to ensure a good life and a great future, or are you leaving it up to chance? Stories shape our reality and influence our decisions, choices and actions – which, in turn, have an effect on our future. In this book, Tom provides an engaging and highly practical approach to adopting a futures mindset to successfully prepare for the stress-provoking rapid changes of modern living. Reflecting on his own journey, and blending insights with scientific evidence, Tom shows how becoming more conscious of the future and addressing life’s challenges proactively can help you flourish and thrive in this fast-changing and challenging world. |
REVIEW
Tom Meyers, in his new book The Futures Effect, provides an engaging and highly practical approach to transforming your consciousness and your way of life. Written in a clear, direct, and easily understandable style, Meyers’ book highlights the critical importance of understanding and guiding your life from the perspective of your envisioned future. Instead of following the habits and mindsets of the past, the key to a better life is to become more conscious of the future and its possibilities and opportunities—to infuse the future into the present. For Meyers, the future should become a way of life.
The Futures Effect examines the essentials of personal empowerment and taking a proactive, rather than reactive stance toward life’s challenges.
Embracing the concept of self-directed purposeful evolution—we have the power to personally evolve ourselves—Meyers discusses how to successfully prepare for the stress-provoking rapid changes of modern life, creating a “resilient future,” and how to envisage a “future self” to serve as a guiding light for navigating and understanding the present. Meyers addresses human emotions and feelings, decision-making and planning, knowledge and thinking, and purpose, self-narratives, and self-identity in outlining his futurist philosophy.
Filled with illuminating examples from his own personal history and experiences—of difficulties and successes and insights—Meyers’ The Futures Effect is an enthusiastic and constructive roadmap for heightening one’s future consciousness and re-energizing one’s life.
Thomas Lombardo, Ph.D.
Director of the Center for Future Consciousness
Executive Board Member and Fellow of the World Futures Studies Federation
Author of Future Consciousness: The Path to Purposeful Evolution, Essays on the Future of Psychology and Consciousness, and numerous other books and publications
The Futures Effect examines the essentials of personal empowerment and taking a proactive, rather than reactive stance toward life’s challenges.
Embracing the concept of self-directed purposeful evolution—we have the power to personally evolve ourselves—Meyers discusses how to successfully prepare for the stress-provoking rapid changes of modern life, creating a “resilient future,” and how to envisage a “future self” to serve as a guiding light for navigating and understanding the present. Meyers addresses human emotions and feelings, decision-making and planning, knowledge and thinking, and purpose, self-narratives, and self-identity in outlining his futurist philosophy.
Filled with illuminating examples from his own personal history and experiences—of difficulties and successes and insights—Meyers’ The Futures Effect is an enthusiastic and constructive roadmap for heightening one’s future consciousness and re-energizing one’s life.
Thomas Lombardo, Ph.D.
Director of the Center for Future Consciousness
Executive Board Member and Fellow of the World Futures Studies Federation
Author of Future Consciousness: The Path to Purposeful Evolution, Essays on the Future of Psychology and Consciousness, and numerous other books and publications
REVIEW
This book is all about inspiring you to think constructively about your future. By providing a straightforward and useful framework based on unwavering principles, it fosters the development of a guiding narrative for the future, for one’s life.
By using that framework, we can define and design a preferred scenario of the future that is better than one left up to chance. Everyone can easily follow the steps suggested by the book to progress, live a meaningful life, and assure a “GREAT” future in this fast changing and challenging world. It teaches us how to analyse, develop, and pursue our preferred plans using language that is simple to read and understand. The clever use of “Y’our” rather than “Your” by the author serves to remind us that our choices, decisions, and actions influence more than just our own lives. We must thus construct our future based on that awareness to be responsible people who care about the future. For readers at all educational levels who want to live a purposeful life in our volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) environment, this book is highly helpful. Alireza Hejazi, Ph.D. Analyst for Leadership and Futures Studies and author of a.o. Responsible Foresight and Becoming A Professional Futurist |
REVIEW
As an osteopath and an autodidact futurist, Tom links the most important skills from futures thinking to learn how to feel with your whole being. His vision is not so much about shaping your vision about the future; it’s about shaping your feelings about the future and using that as an instrument to choose directions. It is not a book that is made to be read at one time. It reads like it is simple, but it is not. It’s a book that you should read chapter by chapter and think through and let the content make sense for you before passing on to the next chapter. You need to take time to digest.
In his writing, Tom takes you by the hand. Sometimes the text seems to repeat but then it comes to another point for which you still had to go back to what was told before. He teaches us personal futures thinking through his own experiences and underpins them with lots of research from other futurists, (mental) health experts, philosophers, and scientists. My greatest learning from the book is that a lot of things are uncertain but there are also a lot of things you can count on. I love the insight that “…certain feelings I longed for were constant in life, like feeling content, fulfilled and healthy… I knew I would not always experience those things, but I would always be striving for them”. Working with Tom on GREAT futures is not about knowing; his futures effect is about wisdom with all your body, mind and soul. Linda Hofman MSc. Senior lecturer & futures researcher, Fontys Academy for Creative Industries |
ABOUT
Tom Meyers
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Tom Meyers was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1970. His life has been eventful, to say the least, but he came to an abrupt halt at age 29 when his gourmet deli business failed, leading him into an existential crisis. Three revealing steps – what he now calls “Futurizing Yourself” – saved his life and helped him overcome his limiting beliefs and make his preferred future into an ongoing reality.
Today, Tom is an osteopath and body-centred stress coach with a private practice in Brussels. He promotes health and wellbeing and is the founder of the “Reaset Approach”. Tom combines his health practice with his work as a wellbeing futurist, speaker and author. His mission is to help people flourish and thrive as they prepare for the future with confidence. |
OTHER BOOKS BY TOM MEYERS
Join wellbeing futurist Tom Meyers as he delves into the future of this fast-changing and challenging world, and debates how we must find new ways to flourish and thrive in tomorrow’s world.
The future is as much your future as it is ours (y’our). As much as you are a product of the decisions, choices and actions of preceding generations, so are future generations influenced by y’ours. Based on this, do you act knowing that y’our future and the future of the future depends on your decisions, choices and actions today?
Wellbeing futurist and body-centred stress coach Tom Meyers argues we must act now to keep up and protect ourselves in a rapidly evolving world, with emerging technologies, digitisation, automation, robotisation, datafication, and technological advances.
The future is as much your future as it is ours (y’our). As much as you are a product of the decisions, choices and actions of preceding generations, so are future generations influenced by y’ours. Based on this, do you act knowing that y’our future and the future of the future depends on your decisions, choices and actions today?
Wellbeing futurist and body-centred stress coach Tom Meyers argues we must act now to keep up and protect ourselves in a rapidly evolving world, with emerging technologies, digitisation, automation, robotisation, datafication, and technological advances.
What makes your life worth living? What purpose do you serve? How do you flourish and thrive in a fast-changing world?
As new emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, robotics and machine learning reshape our world with unprecedented speed, scope and complexity, learning how to live and act 'on purpose' will become the greatest gift you have ever given yourself. This gift will empower you and enhance your health, well-being, self-actualization, welfare, relationships, self-esteem and stress-resilience.
But how do you find your purpose?
How can you design your life 'on purpose' and become the person you were born to be?
As Tom recounts his moving personal story, you will learn how, through a three-step process, you can find a deeper and holistic understanding of your talents, your potential, and who you are. With this knowledge, you can design a life you wake up to every morning with a smile on your face, feeling happy, fulfilled, resilient and ready for the future - regardless of what other people say or how much the world changes.
As new emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, robotics and machine learning reshape our world with unprecedented speed, scope and complexity, learning how to live and act 'on purpose' will become the greatest gift you have ever given yourself. This gift will empower you and enhance your health, well-being, self-actualization, welfare, relationships, self-esteem and stress-resilience.
But how do you find your purpose?
How can you design your life 'on purpose' and become the person you were born to be?
As Tom recounts his moving personal story, you will learn how, through a three-step process, you can find a deeper and holistic understanding of your talents, your potential, and who you are. With this knowledge, you can design a life you wake up to every morning with a smile on your face, feeling happy, fulfilled, resilient and ready for the future - regardless of what other people say or how much the world changes.
