Prophets imagine and describe possibilities others are unable to.

Living within the same reality as we do, they paint a picture of a different future – messengers from beyond the present, bringing to us things we do not know we need and seeing in us what we cannot see ourselves.

Perhaps they appear as questioners, dissenters, innovators, even competitors, but this comes from being energetic positivity when it comes to Human potential and what we are able to shape.  We don’t know what we are capable of yet.  My friend and mentor Alex McManus asks the teasing question, ‘What if the goal of the Universe is to produce a Human?’

Following a near fatal heart-attack, senior officer at Intel David Marsing, shares:

“In the hospital and during the months afterward, I
discovered that my true purpose was to help people
realise that they have more potential than they ever
imagined they had. … I wanted to create environments
for people that would help them see their true potential.”

Marsing decided to go back into the highly stressful environment which had contributed to his heart-attack, to help others find a healthier way of  working which he himself would practice, protecting colleagues from the stresses large organisations can produce.  What he became was a prophet of hope with a message from beyond (literally, as Marsing had clinically died in the emergency room before being revived).

This underlines what I suggested earlier, prophets of hope have faced the same things as everyone else and have seen a different possibility which they bring back for others.  This is the classic hero’s story.

I resonate with Marsing’s goal of wanting to create environments for people to realise their potential – a small part of what we are striving for as a Human species.  I do this, not because of a heart-attack, but many years of struggling in situations where the last thing anyone was helping with was identifying potential.  If you look at it from this way around, what is your discontent you must respond to?

This caught my attention because I see how I am trying to create all kinds of environments for this to happen, on my own and with others.  We are all capable of being prophets of a better future, providing environments within which people can thrive.

Be prophetable.