FutureSpot

A Future Spot is a place you want to get to and a reality you'd like to create. To quote George Washington Carver...

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.

With that as a backdrop, the current Futurespots being worked on are the following:

1. The Learning Home: The home is the first and best place to start the process of exposing your family to a world where technology, faith, nature, education, economics, culture and society are comfortably integrated. By combining the old and the new via simple and elegant approaches in common household contexts, you can give your family a more robust and well equipped foundation from which to start and which to continually make use of during its participation in the world we are creating.
2. Wave50: The baby boomer community is a vibrant community of contributors, mentors and leaders which, when partnered with, are a key part of creating the world we inherit every single day.
   
3. Misc: Along with the two focused areas mentioned above, I will also include some non-focused, random thoughts and ideas which have been relevant for me along my journey as I seek to reach my own personal future spots.

So what's next?

Part of being successful in making a difference is developing the ability to partner with others and also being able to create results which add value. In the short term, this blog and related sites will attempt to share information which is oriented in the direction of the above Futurespots in the hope that it helps others who are focused, interested and/or enthusiastic about these areas.

Onward!

Roadmap

If you attempt anything, make it either:

• Something you like
• Something you are good at

If you do something you like, make it your goal to be good at it. Make it your goal to be great at it.

If you do something you are good at, make it your goal to come to like it. Make it your goal to come to love it.

The world is what you make of it and why not make it wonderful.

Theory and Method

I recently came across an interesting book called Theory U by C. Otto Scharmer and found Peter Senge's Forward to nicely capture and convey some of the key ideas behind the concept of Futurespots. Integrating theory and method is key...

Related Information

I am now including a list of bookmarks (updated regularly) which are of interesting FutureSpot endeavors others are working on.

There are incredible things going on all around us...