Foresight: Embracing Future Change for Bold Transformation
Hindsight brings insight which produces foresight. Strategic foresight professionals tell us the best predictor of the future is the past. In other words, past and present trends will continue unless something causes them to change. Humans are the perfect example: we’ll keep doing what we’ve been doing and we’ll keep getting what we’ve always gotten unless something changes. What causes us to change? It isn’t actually seeing something we want more. Psychologists tell us people change when the pain of change is diminished by the pain of staying the same. Change always feels uncomfortable, even painful. But we’ll do it when it looks preferable to what we’ve been doing…
Insight: From Disembodied Scrambling to Walking in Wisdom
Hindsight brings insight which produces foresight. Last week, we looked at how hindsight and reflection bring us important data about experiences we’ve had. Today, we’ll look at the next piece of the formula – insight – and how we can use that data to find God at work in our experiences and ourselves. When my youngest son was a teenager, our family traveled seven or eight months out of every year. Much of that time was spent hosting conferences, empowering Christians to become ready to speak. At one of these events, I walked into the staff room. As I looked around, about to comment on things that…
