One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead... to produce future.
I always think about my future. That's part of my job.
The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.
That's what I'm interested in: the space in between, the moment of imagining what is possible and yet not knowing what that is.
Planning means looking ahead.
Remember, the goal of structured futures thinking is to come up with a picture of possible futures that will help to inform strategic decisions.
Knowing who we are helps us plan for who we want to be and where we want to go.
Wishing and dreaming are the beginning of all human endeavor.
Before we can build the world we want to live in, we have to imagine it.
We need to start imagining the future or it will get imagined for us, and the ways that it has been imagined thus far don't seem very attractive.
We've never been good at long-term plans.
I think if you look at exactly where you are, you can't really focus without looking back and forward at the same time.
People often say that it is easier to predict the way things are going to be 10 to 20 years in the future than to predict how it is going to be 3 years from now.
