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Its YOUR Future
M AKE IT A G OOD O NE!
V ERNE W HEELWRIGHT, P H D
Copyright 2010 by Verne Wheelwright
Published by Personal Futures Network
Verne Wheelwright
1917 Guava Circle
Harlingen, TX 78552
verne@personalfutures.net
www.personalfutures.net
ISBN: 978-0-9788308-5-4
Library of Congress Control Number: 2010908080
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Contents
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Everyone Wants to Know the Future!
Step One
Chapter 2: A Map to Your Future: Stages of Your Life
Chapter 3: The People in Your Future
Chapter 4: Trends and Forces: Anticipating Change in Your Life
Chapter 5: Forces in Your Life:
Chapter 6: Forces That Shape Your Worlds: Global,
Chapter 7: Events That Will Change Your Life
Chapter 8: Personal Values: Your Guides to the Future
Chapter 9: Realistically You: Strengths, Weaknesses,
Step Two
Chapter 10: Exploring Your Futures with Scenarios
Chapter 12: Driving Forces Will Change the
Chapter 13: Telling Stories about Your Future
Step Three
Chapter 14: Personal Strategic Planning
Chapter 15: A Vision of Your Future
Chapter 16: Strategies to Achieve Your Vision
Chapter 17: Creating Your Action Plan
Chapter 19: Wild Cards and Contingency Planning
Chapter 20: Living With Your Plan
Blank Worksheets By Chapter
References
Colleges and Universities offering Programs or Courses in
Foresight and Futures Studies
About the Author
Figures
Figure 1.1 - A diagram of a plan for achieving a future.
Figure 1.2 - Your route to the future may not follow a straight line,
but having a vision of your long-term future will keep you moving
in the right direction.
S TEP O NE
Chapter 2
Figure 2.1 - A simple timeline of life.
Figure 2.2 - A timeline of life divided into stages.
Each stage represents change in your life.
Figure 2.3 - A table showing seven life stages and three optional stages.
Figure 3.1 - Potential stakeholder categories.
Figure 3.2 - Categories of family members.
Figure 3.3 - A partial worksheet from the Personal Futures Workbook .
Figure 3.4 - Six currently living generations and a few events
that shaped each generation.
Figure 4.1 - Your life in six parts; your six personal domains.
Figure 4.2 - An example of time-series data. This is a projection of the
number of centenarians in the United States from 2000 through
2050. The time period is from 2000 to 2050, the series is in
ten year intervals, and the data are the number of centenarians at each interval.
Figure 4.3 - The same data as figure 4.2, but with a trend line added.
Figure 4.4 - A diagram showing the relationships between possible , plausible ,
probable, and wild card futures and events. You will use these
concepts of possible, plausible, probable, and wild cards all
through this book.
Figure 5.1 - An example of a personal trend line. This line shows how one
persons life in one domain has changed over the years.
Figure 5.2 - Graph format for plotting your quality of life at different ages.
Graph forms and instructions are in the appendix, or you may
download The Personal Futures Workbook (free) at
www.personalfutures.net .
Figure 5.3 - A trend line extended to show the best plausible (upper) and
worst plausible (lower) potential futures for the next ten years.
Figure 5.4 - The circle represents your possible futures over any given period
of time. The wedge represents the plausible futures over the
same time period.
Figure 5.5 - One individuals graph reflecting risks and opportunities
over the next ten years in one domain.
Figure 5.6 - Each of the six personal domains can be divided into forces or
sub-domains such as these examples. Any of these sub-domains
can be charted in the same manner as the domains.
Figure 6.1 - A table for recording scanning results including some
2009 sample entries. You may wish to include the source and
date for each entry.
Figure 6.2 - The economic category is related to the social category.
Figure 6.3 - The economic category is related to the social,
which is related to ecology.
Figure 6.4 - Add technology!
Figure 6.5 - Adding the political category completes the STEEP group.
Figure 6.6 - A blank relationship diagram of personal domains.
Figure 6.7 - Relationship diagram showing some
relationships between domains.
Figure 6.8 - The health domain impacts all other domains.
Figure 7.1 - The timeline is expanded to include the six personal domains in each life stage. This is the format for many of the worksheets
that will follow.
Figure 7.2 - Some common and high-impact life events
for each stage of life.
Figure 7.3 - Rate any event on both scales: probability and impact. The event
above is marked (X) as a probability of 4 and an impact of 5.
The four spaces created by the intersecting lines are quadrants.
Figure 7.4 - Ten events over the next ten years are shown in the four
quadrants of a two-axis matrix.
Figure 7.5 - This matrix suggests your planning needs for
events in each quadrant.
Figure 7.6 - Some events that may occur during the infant stage of life.
Figure 7.7 - Some events that may occur during the child stage of life.
Figure 7.8 - Some events that may occur during the adolescent stage of life.
Figure 7.9 - Some events that may occur
during the young adult stage of life.
Figure 7.10 - Some events that may occur during the adult stage of life.
Figure 7.11 - Some events that may occur during the
middle age stage of life.
Figure 7.12 - Some events that may occur during the
independent elder stage of life.
Figure 7.13 - Some events that may occur during the vulnerable
elder stage of life.
Figure 7.14 - Some events that may occur
during the dependent elder stage of life.
ADLs are the physical activities of daily livingbathing, dressing,
personal grooming, toileting, continence, and transferring.
Figure 7.15 - Some events that may occur
during the end-of-life stage of life.
Figure 8.1 - A list of personal values.
Figure 8.2 - The values of two individuals are represented
by the circles, but their personal values are unknown.
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