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What does it mean?
Facing future challenges is difficult but preferable to avoiding planning altogether.
In plain terms
It is hard to think about the future but harder to have no plan.
What can you take from it?
Planning for the future is better than avoiding it.

Where it applies

  • career planning
  • personal growth

Putting it to work

  • goal setting
  • scenario planning

Questions to consider

  • What future worry keeps you awake?

Another view

Sometimes avoiding the future is a valid coping mechanism.

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