Yes, I’ve been writing again! 😊 Those of you who know me will be aware that I’ve been writing and publishing eBooks for nearly seven years.
Of late, I’ve been focusing more and more on social problems, the political (and public sector) mess, and food security – which I am that concerned about, I’ve even done a PGCert to look even more closely at it!
However, as I’ve looked and thought more and more about what’s happening in the world or worlds that surround us all, a common theme has emerged that has become increasingly alarming.
It’s something that those of you who have had reason to learn about or consider psychology in your work might recognise as something akin to situation bias, where in this sense, no matter who we are and what perspective we have of the world, we aren’t open to there being a different way of looking at things.
We do this, because the experience we already have of how things work has become the stepping off point for everything, wherever and however we think and picture what the future might look like – not only for us, but for us all.
We don’t think of the future being written by our relationship with the past. But that’s how many of us are creating our plans for the future without even realising it.
Getting this point across to people who I respect and have bags of common sense, learning, intelligence and everything that makes them great isn’t easy. Because it’s pretty normal to look at life this way.
And that’s the problem.
Because we are comfortable with our own view of the world and how it makes sense to us, we are not open to other points of view that may rewrite the way we see ‘the problem’ we all have, so that it isn’t just something that we see in relation to our own lives, businesses etc – but as the problem as it really is and will become for us all.
When we can see any problem from the broader perspective and together as one, we all be ready to consider the implications and consequences of that problem more deeply; learn about it and then work collectively to find a solution that we can all own.
Having thought about this more and more – especially as I’ve watched farmers spending massive amounts of energy and time shouting at a government that isn’t going to value what they do, no matter how much noise they make – I decided that using the concept of Timelines might be a good way to share the picture or rather the different pictures of the different views, perspectives and mechanics of what may or may not be going on in the world we share around us, and what they really mean in the past, present and future tense.
Timelines are a genuinely good way to consider different perspectives. Because beyond the Marvel, woo woo or spiritual interpretations that most will almost certainly have heard of and be able to relate to at some level, the idea that there are at least as many perspectives as there are people in the world, and that at different levels these perspectives may be shared, is certainly easier to picture and validate in the sense of timelines as they are discussed within ‘Your Beliefs Today create Everyone’s Experiences Tomorrow’.
How did we get here? Where are we going? What happens next? Why?
These are all questions we should be asking, right now.
If we can identify which shared timeline we are on, we may also see how our expectations of what is happening and what our future is likely to look like could be very wrong.
‘Your Beliefs Today create Everyone’s Experiences Tomorrow is available to buy (for £1.99 UK at 13/01/25) as a book for Kindle immediately below, or alternatively, you can find it as a blog version which is available to read online FREE on my blog HERE. (Link to downloadable PDF is at the bottom).
It would be great to have feedback and please do DM me if you have any questions.
Thanks for your interest 😊
Adam Tugwell 