Importantly, building a connection to your Future Self requires seeing your Future Self as a different person from who you are today.*
Ben Hardy

Later I discovered that you have to have this sense of faith that what you’re moving toward is already done. It’s already happened.**
John Lewis

We travel to the future to be able to imagine what might be,
Returning to the present to be able to activate what we have seen –
It is a special world available to each of us for exploring possibilities,
Returning with these to our ordinary everyday worlds of the present;
We then set about creating patterns of behaviour – habits –
To contain our hopes and dreams.

Like building muscle, we need to train our intentions to make them resilient and strong.^

We move to the future along different paths,
Usually a mixture of these three –
Trends (the future will be more of what has already been),
Events (the future will be affected by good or bad things outside our control),
Choices (the future can be what we imagine) –
Often underestimating the power of personal choice …
And choice is becoming more important to us every day when it comes to
being clear about who we are, what we have, what we must do.

The world is changing faster every day –
Another way of saying this is
the future is coming at us faster than ever …
And it can be overwhelming.

The bad news is, with all that information, we now have a deficit of mental clarity … In addition to our own compromised brain space, there is a compounding effect from the attention deficit of everyone around you. Being mentally cluttered is the new normal.^^

On the other side of this lies the decline of the old ways for
gaining clarity towards meaningful action –
Religions, myths, and meta-narratives*^ –
So we’re on a mission to find new ones,
Something humans are good at finding,
if we make the time, so,
Instead of waiting for the tsunami wave of the future to come to us,
We travel to the future through
identifying our strengths, connecting with our energies and passions, and
naming our values.*^

*Ben Hardy’s Be Your Future Self Now;
**Krista Tippett’s Becoming Wise;
^Ryder Carroll’s The Bullet Journal Method;
^^Campbell Walker’s Your Head is a Houseboat;
*^0 I Let me know if you need some help – this is what dreamwhispering is all about.