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eroded. (And in my head I was thinking,
“gosh, wasn’t it freedom and democracy
you fought for and liberation from
persecution? How exactly does
immigration at all negatively impact your
life? Not only are the youth working hard
right now but they will be working even
harder and going backwards after
inheriting a broken economy, broken
environment and broken world!” But I
didn’t say that.)
I didn’t say any objections, he was
entitled to his views and vote, but my
vigorous inner dialogue kept going
hours after our encounter and it got
me thinking, particularly in the light of
Australia in an election year, with issues
like tax reform, climate change, cost of
living and immigration as big issues. I
got thinking about ‘thinking’. He might
have been ‘future thinking’ for his own
personal life and desires, but he was
applying ‘old thinking’ to our future
problems.
As we face a very different, global and
evolving future, a future facing
extraordinary and unprecedented stresses,
I worry our ‘old thinking’ and the
worldviews that prevailed as the dominant
wisdom for over half a century, I worry
that ‘thinking’ might not save us now.
When you look at history, every
evolutionary leap in technology,
medicine, economics or anything,
has always required radical thinking.
Different thinking. Thinking that needed
to question the status quo and the
accepted norms and think beyond them...
‘future thinking’.
Future thinking first requires a new
and imagined, dreamed up, reality. The
reality of flight was once only a dream.
The reality of wireless technologies was
once only a dream.
My nonagenarian UK friend, who
despite our wildly different views, he
was thinking about his own future based
on his personal desires and dreams. It
gave him not only energy, certainty and
purpose, it gave him HOPE.
We need some of that HOPE too.
Future thinking is now required on a
global scale by our leaders in order to
evolve and move us forward. Future
thinking about dreaming and hoping to
make things better for future
generations, even if it might be dream
based on a desired future that seems
impossible right now.
While our political ‘leaders’ battle it
out and we hold our breath to see if new
or old thinking will prevail, it shouldn’t
stop us from leading at the grass roots
level. It is us who inhabit the edge of
humanity’s evolution. We all contribute
to the creation of the future.
As you think about your dreams
and desires – your own personal ones
as well as for generations ahead – and
ask yourself, “does your thinking now
support the future you want to create, for
yourself and for next generations?”
Sarah Tolmie is a life & love coach, therapist and consultant. Her practice focuses on helping individuals, couples
and families navigate, grow and heal through all their life & love events, changes and challenges – including love,
marriage & family relationships; success, health & wellness; and grief & loss, as well as coping with illness, dying
and death. Sarah is also a Life & Love Celebrant, and Pastoral Care Practitioner, creating profound and meaningful
ceremonies for all life & love events. You can visit her website www.sarahtolmie.com.au and receive her Daily
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