It's 2 days to the day.

Well, 1 year in the guiding, 2 years in tourism, Truly humbled and delighted to be able to share such a high prestige platform. Thank you for recognizing my contribution to the Tourism Industry.

Amongst the titans of the industry I'm but a mere soul, nothing too great, nothing too significant. In the grand scheme of Tourism Receipts I am only a grain in the sands. But for my personal journey I guess this is a validation of my pursuit, and affirmation of my resilience.

Part of growing up is also to eventually understand that everything comes and go, everything is ephemeral. Had some discussions around and kinda surprised how easy some people were to let go.

The truth is, no one in the world is as crazy, no one in the world as as devoted. I guess I gotta start going with the flow too. At the end of the day, most people just want to get past their days, not bothered by having a foresight, at least not if they do not have ownership. And so there I am, grit my teeth, towards an utopian scenario, which on hindsight can be quite naive.

Famous companies all over the world, did their original team of employees stood by the founder till the end, most likely no. It's a matter of timing. Some people have the purpose of building it, but may not be fortunate enough to reap what they have sown. Some people are lucky enough to be that catalyst that drove that one last mile and then harvest the fruits of labour.

I kindda think back to the time I went to the Tarot, my purpose is done, the cards shown me, though the second half asked me to persist on to benefit from the shade of the tree I planted for now.

So then, I started to think what would my next step be, and I guess I have a rough plan.

1) To build a new team to take over
2) To be freelance Guide
3) To enter into Centre of Strategic Futures

I guess ultimately it will be the greatest challenge I will every face if I do step into CSF. We are not the end-user, nor we are the enabler, we are a suggestion. And for every idea, there will be people who support, people who are aggressively against; we might probably get praises, and appreciation at times, but most of the time we probably get backlashed, get mocked, get attacked, etc. But then again, I guess the only way one can make a real difference, is with a team of Forward-Thinking individuals of different skillset, and a mixture of talents and ideas, that have a common goal to make the nation a better place. "If I failed, if I succeed, at least I lived as I believed"

About Foresight

The twentieth-century philosopher and mathematician, Bertrand Russell, told a story about a turkey who was fed on its first day at the farm. Intrigued by whether this would continue, the turkey collected data across a wide range of circumstances—rainy days and sunny days, whether it was the farmer or her husband who did the feeding, and so on. Finally, having amassed a robust dataset, the turkey felt confident that it would be fed every morning. Come Christmas Eve, however, it was killed and roasted.

We are much like that turkey. And that is not a bad thing. Inductive reasoning of the sort the turkey used, where we work on the assumption that the future will be like the past, is a pillar of science. But it is good to be prepared for futures which are not like the past. Sometimes, projections fail. Sometimes, trends bend.

https://thesystemsthinker.com/the-art-of-foresight-preparing-for-a-changing-world/