Destiny . . . or Fate

Is this any sort of choice? Is this what I look forward to?

I’m convinced it can be much more of my choosing. Starting this little series was an article proposing that my future is optional. In other words I have choice.

In fact who, what and where I am now is largely a consequence of my past choices. Therefore it follows that who and what I become and where I journey to, will be a consequence of further choices.

Is there a way of making the right one’s? The correct response starts with another couple of questions.

Who, what and where – do I wish to be? Define all these coordinates exceptionally well and I should get there. Knowing the complete set of coordinates means not only can I place myself, I can predict what lies between and the best route to take. A truly complete set coordinates is the secret.

Like using the most detailed map I gain a degree of certainty about the journey, that confidently guides my progress. I can position myself ahead on the map, trace my way back to where I am now. Then, provided I’ve not put the Grand Canyon in between, follow the right route and don’t get lost I’ll be sure to make my destination.

The second article in this little series discussed the principle of ‘created inevitability’. Therefore a system that could shape my future options needs to be able to structure the journey from the present to this position – by seeing the present from this future.

To be effective, to be inevitable, my system need to identify the intervening challenges as well as the strategies, techniques and tools to be able to anticipate, meet and overcome

But to be effective, the system requires me to do as well as think – I’ve already discovered that doing is learning. My system has to be practical.