The Near Future Prediction

Nina Bilolo Laure
3 min readMar 27, 2021

As I am brand new to this, I definitely expect some of you to find my way of writing weird and maybe funny, well as long as you feel comfortable and understand what I want to say, I’m all right with that.

I am thinking, let’s play around a little with our imagination to solve some of our daily problems or daily progress. Let’s imagine for 15min the world in our own terms, or shape it in how we get to imagine it. I mean dare to imagine your life the way you would like it to be, with all the crazy things included; and this exercise is going to demand from you a little skill on “prediction” or the art of predicting the future for a length of time.

Let me show you how I went about it. When I was still in my teens, I most of the time imagined myself helping thousands of people see the truth about the great potential we all inherited, in huge seminars, classrooms, or even meetings. The truth was I knew I could but sometimes I felt as if it was only a dream, and somehow later in time, I got the answer from a quote I read on my Instagram saying: “May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears” from the great Nelson Mandela; then I thought, how can I tell someone that eating healthy is important but myself isn’t much of a healthy eater or how can I tell someone that being in love is amazing while I am still not sure if it’s really my case? So I decided to draw what I call “The Near Future Prediction” in order to be able to not only imagine my life in my own terms for 15min per day but also to shape it into a reality every single day. I took a pen and a paper and drew a line to represent the outcomes of two specific choices, knowing that after each choice made, I will have to choose again between two choices that will pop up after the first one made; and I knew that this process will carry on until my last breath. This only means instead of choosing to do something without anticipating the outcome, I decided to play with the image of the outcome my choice would bring and what other possible choice will pop up to help me get where I wanted to be. Trust me, the outcomes that happened between 2019 and 2020 were more than what I imagined myself; they were positive and I could feel that I am getting little by little to my end goal. If I am still unclear, let’s make it short and go straight to the point; let’s take the Near Future Prediction as a table of choice’s analysis and take an example, you want to eat healthy or crazy, imagine the outcome of how your body would look like in two to three months and make a choice. You want to be financially independent through your business or hang on a monthly salary, draw the table of choice, imagine the outcomes of where you’re going to be financially in six months to two years, write them down and then make choice.

“Whatever you decide to do, make sure it makes you happy,” said Paulo Coelho.

Life is and will always be about making a choice, but I’m sure it feels great to imagine and analyze the outcomes of a choice before we make one and move to the next set of choices to be made. Well, I took you in my stream of thoughts and I hope your imagination of your Near Future Prediction brings up amazing outcomes. I can’t wait to hear from them!

Take care of your health, mind, and soul.

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Nina Bilolo Laure

Life journey with a little bit of romance and confusion + life tricks are the wonders I love to discover. Let’s just say I am a professional wonderer !