Description:
How to stay healthy, flourish and thrive in a fast-changing and stressful world? Tom proposes to adopt a futures mindset and complement the natural (slow) evolution with a more conscious, purposeful and future-forward evolution.
Brief description: Tom Meyers was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1970. His life has been eventful, to say the least, but came to an abrupt halt at age 29 when his gourmet deli business failed, leading him into an existential crisis. Three revealing steps - what he now calls "Futurizing Yourself" - saved his life and helped him overcome his limiting beliefs and make his preferred future into an ongoing reality.Today, Tom is an osteopath and body-centred stress coach with a private practice in Brussels. He promotes health and wellbeing and is the founder of the "Reaset Approach". Tom combines his health practice with his work as a wellbeing futurist, speaker and author. His mission is to help people flourish and thrive as they prepare for the future with confidence.
Review Quotes:
Written in a clear, direct, and easily understandable style, Meyers' book highlights the critical importance of understanding and guiding your life from the perspective of your envisioned future. Filled with illuminating examples from his own personal history and experiences-of difficulties and successes and insights-Meyers' The Futures Effect is an enthusiastic and constructive roadmap for heightening one's future consciousness and re-energizing one's life. (Thomas Lombardo, Ph.D. - Director of the Center for Future Consciousness & Author of Future Consciousness: The Path to Purposeful Evolution)
As an osteopath and an autodidact futurist, Tom links the most important skills from futures thinking to learn how to feel with your whole being. It is not a book that is made to be read at one time. It reads like it is simple, but it is not. It's a book that you should read chapter by chapter and think through and let the content make sense for you before passing on to the next chapter. You need to take time to digest. (Linda Hofman MSc. Senior lecturer & futures researcher, Fontys Academy for Creative Industries)
This book is all about inspiring you to think constructively about your future. By providing a straightforward and useful framework based on unwavering principles, it fosters the development of a guiding narrative for the future, for one's life. This book is for readers at all educational levels who want to live a purposeful life in our volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) environment, this book is highly helpful. (Alireza Hejazi, Ph.D., Analyst for Leadership and Futures Studies and author of a.o. Responsible Foresight and Becoming A Professional Futurist)