This three-step process helps individuals explore and prepare for their personal future. Step one involves understanding one's life by examining life stages, personal domains, external forces, values, and anticipated events. Step two has individuals explore four alternative future scenarios - extending the present, a positive scenario, a negative scenario, and a transformational scenario. Step three involves creating a 10-year vision, identifying strategies to achieve that vision, and developing an action plan to implement the strategies over the next decade.

1. Exploring and
preparing
for
YOUR future
Verne Wheelwright, PHD

2. THREE steps

3. ONE:
Understand your life

4. TWO:
Explore Alternate
Futures

5. THREE:
Create a Vision,
Strategies and Plans

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7. STEP ONE:
Understand your life
This is your foundation.
Everything else depends on what
you learn here.

8. Ten STAGES of life
10 time frames
10 images of the future
10 important changes in life

9. Stakeholders in
your future

10. Six PERSONAL Domains
Contain the driving forces and
trends in your life

11. These forces are in your life
(and in everyone’s life)
from birth to death

12. Plot your life up to now

13. Putting boundaries on the future

14. External (STEEP) forces
• Social change
• Technological change
• Ecological change
• Economic change
• Political change

15. ANTICIPATE
Events that may occur in
your life

16. PERSONAL values
Your guide to your
strategies
and
actions

17. STEP TWO:
Explore
YOUR alternative futures

18. First scenario:
Extending the
Present Into
the Future

19. Second scenario
A Positive Scenario

20. Third scenario
A Negative Scenario

21. Fourth scenario
a transformational or
a“wild card” scenario
transformational or
“wild card”
scenario…
• low probability, high impact change

22. Writing Scenarios
Yes, write your scenarios
as a story to show the
forces at work.

23. STEP THREE:
VISION, STRATEGIES and PLANS
for your future
(personal strategic planning)

24. Start with a VISION
of your next ten years

25. A vision is a destination

26. STRATEGIES

27. …to achieve YOUR
vision of
YOUR future

28. Create an Action Plan
For each strategy,
identify a sequence of
actions over the next ten
years

29. Live
Your Plan

30. Judged
“Most Important Futures Work”
2012
(Association of Professional
Futurists)
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