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Why It Is SMART To Become An Everyday Futurist

By Kathy Gottberg
Filed under: Aware, Meaningful

This last week I happened to find and listen to an online interview of a woman named Karen Sands who calls herself a positive aging futurist.  While I’ve never really thought of myself as a one, and I’m guessing you haven’t either, she made a convincing argument for why we should all at least think about it.  Why?  Because as I’ve written about before, and she confirmed in her own way, if we want to know where we are headed in life, having a clear destination is critical.  That doesn’t mean you can’t adjust or change as life unfolds.  But it does offer a target that will likely include a future we want to experience. [Read more…]

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Kathy Gottberg is an author with seven published books and hundreds of articles covering dozens of topics in the last 35 years. Along with her books, her passion today is SMART Living 365 where she explores ideas and experiences that help to create a meaningful, sustainable, compassionate and rewarding life for herself and others. Beyond that, she lives with Thom, her best friend and soul mate in Tucson, AZ.

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