I don’t know about you, but sometimes I look at the state of the world and think: what the actual f*ck is going on?
There is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from living through constant uncertainty. Wars, political upheaval, climate change, the cost of living, increasingly precarious work, and now AI arriving at astonishing speed and forcing us to question what work, creativity and even human value might look like in the next few years. And somewhere in the middle of it all are a small number of extremely wealthy tech bros telling us that they are building the future, as if the rest of us are merely passengers.
It can feel overwhelming because so much of it is happening at a scale we can’t individually control. You can’t personally decide what happens with AI, stop a war, fix the economy or persuade a billionaire to do better. But I think there is a danger in allowing the scale of the problem to make us feel powerless.
Because there is another question we can ask: what kind of future do we actually want?
Not the future someone else is selling us. Not the future dictated by an algorithm, a shareholder or the loudest man in the room. I’m talking about the future you would genuinely like to participate in creating.
What do you want your own life to look like? What kind of work do you want to be doing? What do you want more of and what have you finally had enough of? Who do you want around you? What do you want your community to feel like? And if you allow yourself to think beyond the immediate demands of work, money and getting through the week, what do you want to contribute to the wider world?
I think these are increasingly important questions for women, because we have spent a very long time being encouraged to adapt ourselves to systems that aren’t necessarily designed with us in mind. We have become incredibly good at coping, accommodating, organising, supporting, delivering and keeping everything moving. But coping isn’t the same as having a vision, and being brilliant at responding to everybody else’s priorities can leave very little space to work out what our own priorities actually are.
That’s why I created my 3 Hour Blast Sessions.
It’s three hours of focused, one-to-one time where we step out of the noise and look properly at what’s going on for you. We can unpack the career change, the redundancy, the business idea, the feeling that you’ve outgrown your current life, the thing you’ve been circling around for months, or simply that nagging sense that you know you’re capable of something different but can’t quite see what it is yet.
Then we move beyond the immediate problem and start looking at the bigger picture. What do you actually want? What matters to you now? What would you build if you weren’t trying to fit yourself into somebody else’s definition of success? And how could your vision connect not just to your own life, but to the people and communities around you?
I’m not going to pretend that three hours will solve the state of the world. But three hours can create enough space to stop reacting and start thinking. It can help you turn a swirling mass of thoughts into something you can actually see, name and act on.
Because the future is being imagined right now. Some of those people imagining it have enormous amounts of money, power and influence. I don’t think the answer is to sit back and hope they get it right.
I want more of us to have a say in what comes next.
So let’s start with your bit of the future. Your life, your work, your community, your contribution and the things you care enough about to change.
The world may be chaotic, but that doesn’t mean we have to be directionless.
Book a free Clarity call with me https://rifa.co.uk/book-a-call/ and let’s work out what you’re building next.
