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FUTURIZE YOURSELF Vol.2
The Futures Effect
Change your story, change y'our future! |
Author Tom Meyers
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Futurize Yourself (Vol.2)The Futures Effect
Change your story, change y'our future!
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Don’t want to miss an episode of my upcoming book “The Futures Effect - Change Your story, Change Y’our Future” then SUBSCRIBE TODAY using the form ☞ ☛ From draft to print takes a long time - for my first book this took 1 year 😳 - and to be honest, I can't wait that long so eager am I to share it with you 🤩. So I've come up with the idea to serialise it and share it with you through a weekly newsletter starting April 1 and that is not a joke. “The Futures Effect - Change Your story, Change Y’our Future” is a timely book to help you futurize yourself and evolve on purpose in these troublesome, fast-changing and challenging times where the future is screaming for y'our attention. SUBSCRIBE TODAY using the subscription form ☞ ☛ THE BOOKS STRONG POINTS ✔︎ It provides you with a clear structure for getting a grip on this rapidly changing world ✔︎ It is the first book on how you can boost your 'future self-continuity ✔︎ It will help you to be very clear about where you are going, but flexible about how you’ll get there. ✔︎ It is a book that was timely yesterday but essential today to help you be empowered tomorrow. ✔︎ It is one of only a few books in an emerging genre of "self-development through futures thinking” a mindset that is proving to be key to improve and maintain your health, well-being, adaptability and resilience ✔︎ It is a timely book that is needed today to tackle some of y’our greatest challenges |
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In this mind and life changing book Tom explores how - instead of leaving the future up to chance, fate or others to decide - you can futurize yourself and evolve on purpose by pulling the future towards you. In the futures effect Tom's his second book in the Futurize Yourself series he delves again in his personal experience and shares his insight to empower you to create and have a GREAT (Good, Resilient, Evolvable, Actionable and Transcendent) future by exploring the future and pulling it too the present.
What would you like “the future” to be like? Or, as Tom likes to put it: What “the future” do you want?
“Today, neither past nor present, but the future has become the key to y’our health and wellbeing and the wellbeing of our planet on which we depend.”
We are living in a fast-changing and ever more complex and ambiguous world. A world that is trying to cope and navigate the COVID-19 pandemic and the devastating effects of climate change. At the same time, every aspect of y’our life is being influenced by automation, robotisation, datafication, and so many other changes and challenges due to technological advances that have outpaced our own evolution.
How will we cope with all these changes and challenges in an environment that is evolving faster than we are? How will we cope with ever-increasing stress levels while the reactive ‘fight and flight’ based stress response has become outdated and even become a stressor itself as it tampers with behaviour and our time perception?
How will YOU cope?
Today in the midst of turmoil where short-term pressures are up against medium- and long-term uncertainties, humanity is at a decisive moment. Will you wait until it is too late with y’our health, wellbeing and very existence at stake, or will you futurize yourself and adopt a futures mindset. A mindset where you start living on purpose instead of leaving life, and your future, up to chance by creating vivid and realistic images of your preferred future - based on self-defined unwavering principles - and using them as a starting point to change your behaviour in the present – a process and mindset that contributes to better, more meaningful living and a GREAT future for y’ourself.
What would you like “the future” to be like? Or, as Tom likes to put it: What “the future” do you want?
“Today, neither past nor present, but the future has become the key to y’our health and wellbeing and the wellbeing of our planet on which we depend.”
We are living in a fast-changing and ever more complex and ambiguous world. A world that is trying to cope and navigate the COVID-19 pandemic and the devastating effects of climate change. At the same time, every aspect of y’our life is being influenced by automation, robotisation, datafication, and so many other changes and challenges due to technological advances that have outpaced our own evolution.
How will we cope with all these changes and challenges in an environment that is evolving faster than we are? How will we cope with ever-increasing stress levels while the reactive ‘fight and flight’ based stress response has become outdated and even become a stressor itself as it tampers with behaviour and our time perception?
How will YOU cope?
Today in the midst of turmoil where short-term pressures are up against medium- and long-term uncertainties, humanity is at a decisive moment. Will you wait until it is too late with y’our health, wellbeing and very existence at stake, or will you futurize yourself and adopt a futures mindset. A mindset where you start living on purpose instead of leaving life, and your future, up to chance by creating vivid and realistic images of your preferred future - based on self-defined unwavering principles - and using them as a starting point to change your behaviour in the present – a process and mindset that contributes to better, more meaningful living and a GREAT future for y’ourself.
What will happen if you don't Futurize Y'ourself?
"Don’t wait till it's too late - to "Futurize Y'ourself" - for y’our future is at stake."
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Y'our actions matter even if more people are involved.
We all influence the outcome.
We all influence the outcome.
What, the future?!
It’s time to believe that your individual decisions, choices and actions matter and that you
act like y’our future and the future of the future depends on it.
act like y’our future and the future of the future depends on it.
Futurize Yourself (Vol.2)
The Futures Effect
Change Your Story, Change Your Future!
Change Your Story, Change Your Future!
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“Neither past nor present, but the future has become the key to y’our health and wellbeing and the wellbeing of our planet on which we depend.”
What the future do you want?
Today in the midst of turmoil where short-term pressures are up against medium- and long-term uncertainties, humanity is at a decisive moment. Will you wait until it is too late with y’our health, wellbeing and very existence at stake, or will you futurize yourself and adopt a futures mindset. A mindset where you start living on purpose instead of leaving life, and your future up to chance by creating vivid and realistic images of your preferred future - based on self-defined unwavering principles - and using them as a starting point to change your behaviour in the present – a process and mindset that enhances your future-self continuity and contributes to a better, healthier, more meaningful life and a GREAT future for y’ourself.
The best way to have a great future is to create it and evolve on purpose, today!
What the future do you want?
Today in the midst of turmoil where short-term pressures are up against medium- and long-term uncertainties, humanity is at a decisive moment. Will you wait until it is too late with y’our health, wellbeing and very existence at stake, or will you futurize yourself and adopt a futures mindset. A mindset where you start living on purpose instead of leaving life, and your future up to chance by creating vivid and realistic images of your preferred future - based on self-defined unwavering principles - and using them as a starting point to change your behaviour in the present – a process and mindset that enhances your future-self continuity and contributes to a better, healthier, more meaningful life and a GREAT future for y’ourself.
The best way to have a great future is to create it and evolve on purpose, today!
content
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: What the Future?
Chapter 2: A Good Future
Chapter 3: A Resilient Future
Chapter 4: An Evolvable Future
Chapter 5: An Actionable Future
Chapter 6: A Transcendent Future
Chapter 7: The Future Self
Afterword
Introduction
Chapter 1: What the Future?
Chapter 2: A Good Future
Chapter 3: A Resilient Future
Chapter 4: An Evolvable Future
Chapter 5: An Actionable Future
Chapter 6: A Transcendent Future
Chapter 7: The Future Self
Afterword
Target Audience
Men and women between 25 and 55 who are interested in self-development, personal futures and/or are concerned about how to deal with a rapidly changing world.
The strong points
- It is a book that was timely yesterday but essential today to be empowered tomorrow.
- It is a timely book that is needed today to tackle some of our greatest challenges
- It is one of the few books in an emerging genre of "self-development through futuristic thinking"
- There is increasing attention to futures thinking as there is more and more evidence that it has benefits for one's health, well-being, adaptability and resilience
- It provides a clear structure for getting a grip on the rapidly changing world
- It is the first book to propose a stress management and resilience enhancing approach by creating a strong picture of the future
- It is the first book on how to boost one's 'future self continuity’
- It helps the reader to be very clear about where they are going, but flexible about how to get there.
- It helps the reader get more control over their future
The Good FUTURE
The future is not something that just happens to us - it is something we create every single day, by action or by inaction. Whether the future is good or bad is entirely up to us. As we see the future, so we act, as we act so we become!
(Gerd Leonhard, Futurist and author of Technology vs Humanity)
(Gerd Leonhard, Futurist and author of Technology vs Humanity)
The Resilient FUTURE
The future is an elusive abstraction we almost don’t believe in; looking straight at it requires us to confront our fears and anxieties, the possibility of misfortune, and the fact of our mortality. -
(Vincent Ialenti, anthropologist and author of Deep Time Reckoning)
(Vincent Ialenti, anthropologist and author of Deep Time Reckoning)
The EVOLVABLE FUTURE
Evolve and do it yourself.
(Nature is too slow)
(Tom Meyers)
(Nature is too slow)
(Tom Meyers)
Kaplin A., Anzaldi L. (2015). New Movement in Neuroscience: A Purpose-Driven Life. Cerebrum 7.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4564234
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4564234
Wilson D.S., Hayes S.C., Biglan A., Embry D.D. (2014). Evolving the future: toward a science of intentional change. Behav Brain Sci. 37(4):395-416.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24826907
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24826907
The actionable FUTURE
As we see the future, so we act, as we act so we become!
(Barbara Marx Hubbard)
(Barbara Marx Hubbard)
The Transcendent Future
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Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.
(Jonas Salk)
(Jonas Salk)
A. H. Maslow (1963). A Theory of Human Motivation. Psychological Review, 50, 370-396.
https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu
https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu
The future YOU
Do unto your self as your future self would do unto you.
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A. H. Maslow (1963). A Theory of Human Motivation. Psychological Review, 50, 370-396.
https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu
https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu
references
These books are not only referenced in, but also highly recommended to read after my book "The Futures Effect"
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