‘Future Authoring,’ or “Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.”

Plans often go astray. Still, each of us has a wealth of plans, dreams, hopes, goals, objectives, and such, banging around in our heads. What to do with them? How to organize them? How to make them real?

One method for mapping things out is Future Authoring, or Self Authoring, found here: https://www.selfauthoring.com/. Created by a group of clinical and research psychologists, including Dr. Jordan Peterson, this program is designed to help the reader sort out his or her plans for the next few years of life. It’s a self-created map of sorts for our lives. Will the plans be foolproof? As Mike Tyson said, “Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” Dwight Eisenhower put it differently when he said, “Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.” Maybe you’ll follow the map, maybe not. But the process of creating the map can be meaningful and helpful in and of itself, so that you’re not blindly stumbling from waypoint to waypoint. Check it out.