Tomorrow.  Face it with either fear or anticipation, it doesn’t matter which, it is coming regardless of our grasp of it.  Fortunes have been made marketing knowledge about tomorrow whether that tomorrow is 24 hours away or 100 years distant.

Fortune tellers make the promise that that can allay our fears with their prognostication about what is coming.  Maybe, armed with their information, we can manipulate our path into the future so that what we fear can be avoided.  Or, better yet, they can assure us that what we fear doesn’t exist at all on the path of time we are traveling down. Their predictions can set us at peace in the present if they can reassure us that the fulfillment of our dreams is right around the corner.  All that energy we expend fretting about how things will turn out in the end can be saved with a few simple words from a seer that all will be well, we can relax.

Of course, the accuracy of our local forecaster’s claims aren’t always up to snuff.  In the end, they don’t really give us the confidence we are hoping to gain; they’re just another thing to doubt.

What we need is someone who has really seen the future.  Someone who has seen it and is willing to guide us from the here and now into the future that they know can be ours if we choose to walk the path to get there.  The truth is, there are people out there that have this ability.  They have the ability to see what is possible in the future.  But, not only can they see, they can also discern the paths that need to be traveled in order to arrive at the future in question.  In them, the combination of perception and passage are combined and we have better than a fortune teller.  We have a guide, an architect, and a seer that bridges the gap between us and tomorrow.

Do you remember The Terminator?  In that franchise of movies, Arnold Schwarzenegger played a cyborg that was constructed by computer driven machines to eradicate mankind.  To do so he was sent back in time to assassinate the mother of the future leader of the human resistance against the rule of machines on planet Earth.  If we can forgive the Terminator for his actions in the first movie we will find that in the second movie he has had a change of heart and now he desires to side with the humans in opposition to the machines.

Now this is the type of future seer we need.  Someone like the Terminator who knows the future like he’s been there.  But not only that.  That is the point where most fortunetellers stop, simple information.  He came equipped with the tools to communicate what tomorrow looked like and then to guide them into tomorrow.  Knowledge of tomorrow’s challenges doesn’t make the passage easy, but in the example of this movie the Terminator was there to assist in that process to ensure the safe survival of his human wards.  I don’t want to spoil the movie but, as future guides go, the Terminator did a pretty good job.

The Gallup StrengthsFinder calls this set of talents Futuristic, someone who can see tomorrow and then chart the path to get there.

Wondering what could be in your tomorrow, what is possible?  Find a Futuristic thinker to paint you a picture and draw you a map.