To be able to tell what will happen for you and even the world?
If you said yes, then you are in good company. Millions of people around the world would love to be able to see ahead in time. In fact, some would go even further. A British 2015 survey by YouGov discovered 61% of those asked would want to actually travel to the future as well.
We clearly want to know what the unknown has waiting for us.
The topic on whether, as mortal humans, we have the ability and power to see what is to come has been debated for centuries. Early in history these gifts were believed to be bestowed only on special holy souls. The Gods decided our lives and the priests and seers were the ones allowed to witness their decisions and opinions.
But, times change.
Over the years a growing interest in spirituality over religion has reopened the debate. Are there other unseen worlds? Can we see them or experience them? Are we psychic and can bend time and space ourselves? Is time real or can we view it both back and forward?
Who knows, but one truth does remain.
Our mind is a special zone that the future lives in.
Design not Destiny.
Seeing the future is viewed as seeing destiny itself.
The trouble is we believe that seeing time to come as being able to view events that are destined to occur before they do. Destined, unchangeable, meant to be. We never consider that we can create HOW these events will happen in our minds first.
Less destiny, more design.
But, there have been individuals who know the mind can concept and shape the future, rather than accept what the fates supply.
One such man was Buckminster Fuller. An advanced mind that considered advanced development. He was a philosopher, inventor, architect, writer, visionary, and designer all in one mind. He looked decades ahead and formulated how society could live.
Among his creations from the 1920’s onwards were Geodesic domes (used even today in design and industry), and prototype future cars and homes. He was also one of the first to predict mankind relying mainly on renewable sources of energy long before it was ever advocated.
Consequently, he was always mentally living many years into the future. Not to guess or predict how we would live, but to design, direct, and shape it.
To this day many in industry and government refer to him and his visions of life to come and use some of them still!
He wasn’t a prophet, he was a high level pro at applying the mind to the future.
We are always creating the future.
We don’t need a unique mind like Buckminster’s.
Nor do we have to wait for another person like him to come along. There are enough of us out there who have dedicated their mindsets to forming the future in some way. Some you will have heard of.
Tim Berners-Lee – famously envisaged and built the fledgling internet and shared information between computers in a kind of web as well as the first browser.
Jules Verne – predicted the use of submarines, space travel, and helicopters to name but a few.
Bill Gates – started Microsoft with his vision for ‘a computer on every desk and in every home’ running his software.
Fei-Fei Li – a modern future mind, the ‘Godmother of AI’ who has led the way in the development and use of Artificial Intelligence.
Ordinary humans employing their minds for extraordinary creation. Ordinary people when they began, ground breakers when they finished. No trying to zone into the future fates through trance or meditation or spiritual practices. The future as they saw it was squarely in their mind and brought to life.
As humans there are many of us always creating the future. People you are going to hear about in the years ahead as reality catches up with their vision of things.
And you can join them!
What’s on your mind?
Everyone has ideas and bigger beliefs.
They sit there in our mind acting as guides to the future. Rather than some mental crystal ball revealing events and situations deep in time, they show what YOU can make of your future.
This is the super normal ability of the mind, not some supernatural window into another timeframed existence we get a glimpse of. It knows you inside and out; your abilities, character, views and beliefs, your whole psyche. And in doing so it presents to you possibilities and options to evolve that individual to its best level in life.
Your mind is gifting you your future if you were to accept it. Not the Gods or the spirit world.
So next time you wonder if you can see the future, pay attention to your mind, it will present you with your best self realised.
The real key to the future is that you then want to go and meet yourself there. We all have that ability to create, build, form, develop, and invent. Mind that you do!
Or as Buckminster Fuller wonderfully said,
‘We are called to be architects of the future’.
References – YouGov – society- back future british people.
And we are all different. One person’s mindset isn’t fully the same as another’s. As a result we think, believe, see, and act differently.
But, there is ONE mindset that millions of us the world over do share. One that is present every single day that destroys our happiness and joy in life. It’s very common and if you haven’t got it…you will probably know someone who clearly has.
For every goal, wish, hope, or dream, this mindset will kill it all.
It prefers instead to live in the past. A negative past it keeps on looking for and deciding will never change and projecting it onto the here and now.
A mindset that unhappily personalises everything that did happen, and is still happening.
The poor me mind.
Our minds don’t see what there is to see. They see what we believe is to be seen.
An event, situation, or conversation can occur and ten people will all view it differently. Each individual’s mindset projects a different personal meaning onto the actual reality.
However, ONE mindset many hold that covers most scenarios that they become involved with is the ‘Poor me’ belief. The self attached tag they place on themselves each time. Even if all seemed fine at the time, their mind will work overtime to kill this. It will announce how wronged or unwanted or always suffering the person was….and always is.
No matter how anything turns out, they are meant to be wounded and hurt.
Why?
Because they possess the Victim Mindset.
Self sabotage in our head.
The No.1 killer of mentality and any self confidence and worth is the Victim Mindset.
It defines so many of us as the permanent casualty and loser in life. We may wear a smile for others to see, but underneath we feel worthless and unappreciated. At worst we consider we are ugly, unloved, and deliberately singled out for poor treatment.
The inner victim is always awake and self sabotaging our life.
The victim mentality kicks in often. The boss at work is grumpy – it’s always against you. Traffic is hell again – it’s typical, happens to you more than others. Your Amazon order goes astray or they send the wrong size – yep, you knew something would go pear shaped.
In almost any scenario the victim mindset is present. Rarely does it take a back seat. The odd snafu that most believe will hit us all randomly some days, to the victim mindset is permanently guaranteed to find them any day. Others get the odd hassle, they get the regular full force.
There are no accidents or mistakes or ‘one of those things’.
The victim keeps choosing to be the victim.
How to be a victim no more.
Having a Victim Mindset is to participate in a victimless crime.
A mental crime without anyone getting injured. The only hurt is in the head. The only thing stolen is peace of mind.
It is to make yourself a full victim by wiring your mind to seek out being constantly negatively singled out. Every situation is a crime scene waiting to happen with you slap bang in the middle. But, it can be broken and you can be free.
The answer lies at the start and the end.
In any given scenario the second something occurs (usually less luckily for you) or a comment made literally SHRUG YOUR SHOULDERS. At the same time say (if in private) or think, ‘That’s not me’, three times. It sounds illogical but it’s breaking up the mind’s link to the belief that it is always you that gets to experience tough stuff. Then, leave the moment alone and carry on as if everything is normal.
DO NOT REVISIT – this is the killer for many because they keep going over and replaying the scene again and again. But badly. They become the victim in it. SO DON’T. What’s gone has gone. Focus ON the right now and how much better things can become day after day. Look forwards to something.
Repeat, repeat, repeat. Break the mental chain.
(**NB – To further help with this I’m going to post about the magic of Reframing the mind in a few weeks. It is a game changer!!).
Freedom awaits.
It’s time for freedom!
If you have a victim mindset you have millions of fellow mental victims out there too. You don’t want to be like them anymore. You want to enjoy life. To never making yourself the one to blame or be punished ever again.
You never were. You BECAME the victim. A role you chose to play. One you got used to accepting.
So, accept a new one. Tell your mind you are singled out for joy, good surprises, great people, and more. Tell it and keep finding proof so your mindset kicks in and says, ‘Yes that’s you’.
Keep that up and you are going to turn it all around.
The success mindset is not far away!
Photo attributions – Free to use under Pixabay Content License by Leix and Ryan McGuire and Shooinau.
Five thoughts, ideas, insights, or quotes to power up your mind to think differently and creatively about life and who we are. Put all previous thinking away and open up a brand new world of the Supermind. YOUR SuperMind.
This week – Debt.
It’s a money world today. Make no mistake about it. Look around. Everywhere you turn money shows itself. But that becomes an addictive attraction to us humans. If we haven’t naturally go it, we spend it to pretend we have and to show off to others. With life defined by social media these days, individual self image drives human behaviour. See and be seen. But, that means spend and be spending. The end result? A few more online followers but a heap of debt. And in 2026 we are in debt more than ever before. SMS delves in and asks whether debt is a good thing…..or not!
1. What are we paying for?
The average non-mortgage debt per adult in the UK in 2024 was £6300 each. In the USA the average total consumer arrears in mid-2025 was $104,755. In both countries and countless others the debt-to-income ratio is increasing to scary levels. As for the UK, in the latter part of 2025 that figure was 116.9%. Or nearly 20% ABOVE what earnings are. We owe far more than we bring in money wise. Costs have increased over the years but debt has spiralled at a faster rate.
What are we paying for? What is causing us to truly be in debt beyond what we can afford?
2. Priority Pounds and Dollars.
At the turn of the Century most people’s priority spending was household related bills, clothing and footwear, social entertainment, and a small number of holiday costs. Today those priorities have clearly changed. Expensive brand new or fast cars clog the roads. Bigger and better homes are sought out. Trips and vacations are now multi times a year and now to far flung places. We socialise all the time, wear the best designer gear, and seem rarely at home to save some finances.
Why has our priority spending changed and why do we feel we have to do it?
3. We didn’t do debt….now we do.
Being in deficit used to be a stigma. A kind of social failing that we were horrified anyone finding out about. Not today, no way. It’s a normalised factor of being alive. Once the credit gates swung open at the end of the last Century, debt is as everyday as profit. We no longer blink at having liabilities we owe or taking them on. We have changed in relation to this aspect of money management. Therefore…
Do we need to rethink our relationship with debt being OK?What mentality should we develop?
4. Slaves to the system?
Ralph Waldo Emerson observed, ‘A man in debt is so far a slave’. He could well be right. Debt keeps us firmly part of the system. It keeps us working and striving to generate the income to pay down the debt. In some cases due to interest, that debt accumulates meaning again working more and more to cover the growing financial burden. It’s a merry go round that’s far from merry that many can’t get off. They were given (loaned/advanced) to help out that has so much extra added to it, they have to pay to the masters who owned the original funds.
Are we slaves to the financial system? Are we merely working to keep others in wealth while we have debt?
5. Who does everyone owe?
Historically if we had a debt it was to a bank or financial institution. Low level stuff to purchase a used car, update the bathroom, or buy a small starter home. Nowadays we seek advances for absolutely anything – from our weekly salary to money for once in a lifetime trips that are now once a year or less. But, this is and always has been consumer debt. Individual members of the public. Not any more. Today it is complete countries that are in debt. The world can’t all be owing each other. Which leaves this bigger question…
Who is behind the mass creation of debt, and how can we stop them and this?
Ok, that’s another SuperMind Saturday done. Thank you for being here for the SuperMind time. Keep thinking about these and other issues raised on here on SMS. We need more minds thinking about this issue and the others issue on SuperMind Saturdays. Why? Because it’s needed. Because the world requires new thoughts and ideas. Ones from people like you!!
See you next time for more super thinking.
References – UK Parliament – researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-7584/CBP-7584.pdf.
With the advent of social media, 24 hour rolling news, and a permanent non-stop 24/7 culture, it’s hard to keep anything hidden away.
But, there is one secret that very few are party to. It’s a secret that’s long been there, but has remained under the radar from everyone.
That secret is a special ingredient to thinking and observation that will totally and utterly change your perspective. Change your mind so you begin to see what you could never see before, and have a mindset you have never previously owned. One specific but crucial ingredient.
And it’s not just one factor….it’s ONE WORD.
One word with far reaching mental effects.
The Super C word for Mindset.
Let’s say you receive a piece of information.
Some fact or data or point you hear, read, or are told.
On paper it appears enlightening. Or it could be revealing or shocking. For some it proves what they have always believed. Some facts and figures, for example. The kind of stuff political parties roll out to get your vote. Or keep hold of power.
Typically it may go along the lines of stating, ‘In real terms we have spent an extra £150m on education or increased the number of police officers by 10,000 over the last 3 years’. Again at first look it sounds impressive. And at this point minds begin to get made up about what it means and many believe what is in front of them.
Of course, the facts as presented are hard to argue with.
Until you employ that secret ingredient you read about at the start. The one word secret that alters what you read above in that statistic ridden statement.
That word, that ingredient is…..
CONTEXT!
This is going to create a very different, but real picture in your mind.
How does context work?
Context is a word you have heard of, but most people don’t know how it works.
To simplify – context provides the full facts as well as the big picture all in one. Let me show you. We are going back to those political statements from earlier. By the way a context statement of my own – I have no political affiliations whatsoever, in fact I rather loathe the subject. I merely use it because it perfectly represents context in action for the average person to understand.
Let’s pick a statement.
‘We have spent an extra £150m on education’. Now we add context – the full background info. They spent £150m on education but they promised in their manifesto to spend £200m or 33% more. So, a statement, a ‘fact’ or ‘truth’, looks far less so with the addition of context.
Politicians are adept at leaving context out (diplomatic phrase there by me). They want to direct you to what suits their agenda message. But, they are not alone. Many everyday people tell you what they want you to know or limit what they let you into. They too remove certain elements that would reveal a very different story.
And that’s precisely why YOU need to use context if you wish to change your life, create a business, achieve a major goal, or overcome an issue or obstacle.
Context will fill in the gaps AND expand everything.
How to use context.
You are going to context your thinking.
The rabbit is about to be pulled out of the magicians hat.
Well, more like from Sherlock Holmes mind without the need for his genius.
You are going to begin looking ‘behind the curtain’ of what’s in front of you. That block or restriction causing you stress or sleepless nights. Instead of trying to solve it head on, you are going to activate context.
Here’s what I mean.
Statement belief – ‘I can never seem to lose weight, I could a few years ago but now I guess I’m getting older and the pounds are staying on’.
Context – use the clue in what you said/thought i.e. ‘a few years ago’. Adding context but zooming out and viewing from above you will notice that those days three years ago were when you worked at a busy office. You walked to and from a car park a mile away and up and down the various floors in the office block. You were always on the go each day.
Now you work 3 days a week at home with food on tap as a major temptation and virtually no walking.
With context your weight issue is shown to be a home working issue. One you can now amend – go for a walk each lunchtime, prepare meals in advance for lunch using smaller portions, lock away those naughty snacks (or put them out of reach), or have Teams video work chats during normal bored eating moments.
Context reveals what’s really going onAND how to start solving it.
Context works.
Yes, context works wonders.
Why do you think politicians and companies get rid of context when they share so called factual information? From political parties omitting figures to big brands shrinking the size of products while promoting their great taste or best ingredients in its place, LACK of context is what’s usually on show in the public arena.
And that means the same for yourself.
What ‘stuff’ you don’t admit or want to accept is the context that will save you.
Girls do not want to ignore you – you choose a certain type of blonde who does.
Your boss isn’t failing to appreciate you – your workload has dropped as you hate the job.
Context is king. It’s the secret game changer right there under our noses in our own lives. So, own up, take a look, and get it on the table. Stop burying it away. You are not seeking votes or mega profits in your chocolate bars. You are trying to be the best person possible so you can have the best success that’s in you.
Context is the secret ingredient that gets rid of secrets.
And context is the key to the door marked, ‘PROGRESS’!!
Do you want to have more positive thinking but you can’t seem to make it work?
You won’t be on your own because most minds get stuck when moving from poor thoughts to better ones. The current neural pathways that fire constant lesser thoughts to the awareness have become fused in and well developed. Due to many years of repeated use, these lower thinking paths have formed powerfully and will need some budging.
This is why when you WANT to think more optimistically, it never lasts very long. Or never gets going in the first place.
Is there an easier way to get a better head space?
What can you do to experience positive thinking for longer?
The Bitesize Brain.
Your brain is a complex machine.
It has sheer mega computing power and stunning memory recall. It can multi-task and consider both deep questions and challenging problems. From crosswords to life’s conundrums, your brain is one super computer.
But, computers are reprogrammable.
They can be made to forget one set of informational instructions in favour of a newer set. That can be done by simply changing the software (the operating system that has instructions for use) and rebooting.
You can do the same. But, instead of one swift upgrade like in the computer world, you are going to do this in miniature in the mental world.
You are going to bitesize your brain with new input. Little bits of positive input.
You can’t just command the mind to completely change the way it has previously thought at the snap of your fingers. But you can, bit by bit, get it to accept alternative thinking in building brick doses.
Each new thought is going to act like a Lego brick. Piece by piece, adding to what’s come before it, a little masterpiece is going to be constructed. One day, not far from now, those tiny little bricks of thought will form a newly shaped mentality that you can play with to your heart’s desire.
Let’s build a new positively wired brain!
Micro Mental Magic.
Brain building can be done by anyone.
You DON’T need to be some naturally gifted genius or first class honours graduate. Everyone from the janitor to a princess, professor to a ballet teacher, can rebuild their mind. It’s THEIR mind, so they are the one who can change how it works.
And the same goes for you. You can rethink how you think. So, let’s get you doing that in micro thinking style to form a new positive neural pathway filled brain mind.
Positive thinking for hours and hours while negative thoughts go have a cup of coffee and let you get on with it, ain’t gonna happen. Don’t fight that fact. Use it to your advantage.
Instead of longer periods trying to retain a positive mindset, aim for micro moments. These are small chunks of positivity and optimism for, say, 15 minutes to begin with. As you find that less challenging in a week, up it to 20 mins, then 30. NEVER get over confident and go straight to an hour. Your mind has to form new neural pathways, they won’t develop in big leaps. They need short, consistent growth.
See it like snakes and ladders.
You don’t want fast progress only to slip right back down to the start.
Short IS sweet in mindset terms.
Little and Often.
Time to think like you are exercising.
To develop fitness, you start small, with limited periods of running, weights, cardio workouts etc. Then, as you improve, you step up the length of the exercise. This is to help build resilience in your body and to get it to gradually become stronger.
In other words, little bites repeated often.
Copy that. If you can muster it, set a reminder on your phone or watch to have 10 – 15 mins positive thinking every two or three hours. As you find it increasingly easier to maintain the better thinking (neural pathways are growing and more powerful) reduce to once per hour.
The obvious next progression follows – 20 – 30 mins at a time per hour. And so on. That’s how a super mindset is formed. A few minutes gradually per hour gradually expanding to a few hours at a time.
If you keep it up employing a sensible increase in the time you have positive thoughts, and not overconfident jumps straight into trying to have a whole day, the new neural networks in your mind will lock in and grow.
Like building a sturdy wall, micro thinking will build a whole chain of positive neuroplasticity links in your mind. Superhighways of more super stuff thinking wise.
In terms of great thinking that sticks and lasts, micro is the way to go!
