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Visualize the Future is informative, entertaining and decisively positive. What's so important about visualizing the future? There are those who believe the future is something that happens; it's the result of fate. So, our destiny lies in the hands of God, the force, or whatever you want to call it.
Visualize The Future.
The following link leads to the first draft of the book on my website, which also includes editing notes.
Visualize The Future - Book Draft 2018
The book draft is comprehensive, currently coming in at approximately 250 pages. The academic language will be "humanized," and significant portions will be cut, along with smaller new additions.
Visualize the Future: Introduction
Visualize the Future...will make you smart. Create the future.
Visualize the Future is informative, entertaining and decisively positive.
What’s so important about visualizing the future?
There are those who believe the future is something that happens; it's the result of fate. So, our destiny lies in the hands of God, the force, or whatever you want to call it. Down here on earth, if the future is something that “just happens,” well, it's somebody else's future, not yours. If you believe this way, then you're just along for the ride.
Then, there are those who believe we shape our own destiny. We negotiate the future. We create the future.
Destiny is a pretty big word. Shaping the future can be a very practical matter, like finding a job, deciding where to live, who to marry. Still, you ARE on a journey, and whatever's out there, well, it's your destiny. What's it gonna be: fate or choice?
So, how do we shape the future? Are we all artists and the future is our canvas? Does an event occur taking us far away from our initial goals, and if it does, how do we respond?
The bottom line question is: who's in control? When you look at the world around you, ask yourself, “what did I do to create what it is I see?” Where did all this stuff come from, you know, cities, buildings, roads, cars, houses, democracy, Hollywood, a pill, jeans, the iPod, and this really great pumpkin pie with all natural ice cream?”
Are you an inventor? An artist? A visionary? A concerned citizen? Or are you blind, figuratively speaking? Do you not care what's around the corner? Are you ready for it? Are you sure you really know and just might be taking things for granted?
This book is a form of appreciation, a dedication to so many who have, in fact, “seen” the future...and made it happen.
What about conflict? After all, you and I, we don't see the same things, do we? I see democracy, you see a prison. I see personal flying machines, you see lawsuits. I mean, we're definitely talking about the to-maa-to/to-mah-to thing big time.
And the future is just that: It's not only some grand design of the universe but also something as simple as how you and your neighbour are going to get along day after day. You see a fence; he sees his dog poopin' in your yard. What’s that got to do with the future? Well, you're making decisions that determine...your level of happiness. Emotions—happy or sad—very much affect your vision of the future.
As far as we know, that is, until somebody actually sees one of these parallel universes we've been hearing about, time moves forward. So, anything in front of “now” is the “future.” This means one wrong move and you're outta here. Or one right move and you just solved a world dilemma.
“To go where no man (and woman) has gone before.” Ironically, Star Trektook place in the future, but it was more about travelling from one geographical location to another than it was about travelling through time. And notice my little insert of (and woman)? We really need to stop thinking about the future as the exclusive domain of men. Those days are...in the past.
Right off, one of the ways I personally want to change the future is to take the emphasis off “man” and re-shift it to include women. In other words, not “mankind” but “humankind.” Some might believe such political correctness is unnecessary. For far too long, men have dominated this planet and this has got to stop. Women are proving to be as visionary as any man, able to handle anything from winning the Olympics to running a global corporation or head of state.
Besides, when it comes to the future, we need all the help we can get. Meteors? Alien invasion? Cracks in the earth? Global warming? These are global issues. So, not only do men and women need to come together but so do nations and all the crazy people in them. Even animals can show us the way into the future.
Hillary Clinton broke the “glass ceiling” by becoming the first presidential nominee in America. She lost to a who many claim is a narcissistic psychopath threatening democracy and the future of the human condition. Well, there ya go right there: Here's a single man whose decisions can alter your life for the worse or better. What are you going to do about it?