Holding the future lightly

There is a real danger that if your vision of the future is too prescriptive, too clear, too planned; that you will, as a result, drag old, out-dated thinking and ideas into it.

Instead of the future presenting itself as a canvas of renewal, it then ends up being enslaved to the past.

It unfolds simply as a tweaked version of history rather than what it could be; a lightly-held realm of possibility that is allowed to emerge from ever-greater and expanding levels of confidence.

Prescriptive images of the future can stifle curiosity and creativity.

Holding onto yesterday's notions of 'where things are going' can disable a sense of agency and fool us into believing that we are victims of the inevitable, rather than the creators 'what's also possible'.

Resist the urge to 'be right' about the future...and rather hold it lightly. Allow for it to be an ongoing subject of playful enquiry.