Personal Futures Workbook (Japanese) (Paperback or Softback)

This workbook is created be used with the award winning book "It's YOUR Future... Make it a Good One!" (Japanese). The book and the workbook were written to help individuals look at their present lives, explore plausible scenarios for their future, and develop plans to achieve their vision of what their future should or could be. "It's YOUR Future... Make it a good One!" shows readers (with over 100 diagrams and tables) how to use the same methods that professional futurists use to explore and plan for the future.

Verne Wheelwright earned a Master's degree in Studies of the Future at the University of Houston then, convinced that there was a need, began research in personal futures for his Ph.D. dissertation. This workbook and his recent award-winning (Association of Professional Futurists' 2012 "Most Important Futures Work") book, It's YOUR Future...Make it a Good One! are the direct result of that research. Verne was convinced that the futures methods that have been so successful for businesses, governments and other organizations should work for individuals as well. During his research, he developed a step-by-step approach to teaching individuals how to organize information from their own lives, then apply futures methods to explore and prepare for their futures. His articles about personal futures have appeared in professional journals and other publications worldwide. It's YOUR Future... has been translated into Spanish, Turkish, and now Japanese, and will soon be available in other languages. . His broad background in international business and his travels to much of the world have provided Verne with a strong foundation for his personal futures research, and added an understanding of cultural and economic differences that affect people's lives. Since writing the original version of this workbook, Verne has tested it in presentations and workshops with people of different ages and varied cultural backgrounds, with gratifying results. He continues to receive compliments and expressions of gratitude from people who have attended his workshops, read his articles or visited his web site at www.personalfutures.net. Verne plans to continue research, speaking, and writing about personal futures, and is encouraging futurists around the world to help people change their lives with personal futures workshops and training. He has created a web site for his books at www.vernewheelwright.com. Verne also writes a blog at www.wfs.org/blogs/verne-wheelwright. You can receive updates of his work on Twitter, @urfuturist or at the Personal Futures Network page on Facebook.